213 committed housing could be argued as totally incomprehensive. Factually, from fourteen development plans (7 SPs and 7 LPs) examined, only one plan, i.e. MPJB, Mukim Plentong and Pasir Gudang SP can be considered as having conducted the activity comprehensively. Incomprehensiveness has also been observed to have existed in the process of formulating housing planning policy. The study reveals that all SPs in the study area only focussed to the formulation of policies to fulfil the population housing requirement and to control the housing development according to the determined land use zone. The other policies, such as to incorporate the households effective demand, to consider the market demands and to balance the supply and demand of housing have failed to be formulated in the study area’s SP, except in the MPJB, Mukim
Plentong and Pasir Gudang SP. This SP could be considered to have
conducted the activity comprehensively. The study indicates that the activity of determining future housing land area is very weak and incomprehensive. Out of the seven LPs in the study area, only four are found to have calculated and determined the future housing land area for their areas. However, the implementation of the activity in these four LPs is also traced as incomprehensive in terms of the time-frame, outcomes and the conversion of the future housing land area figures into the proposal map. All the four LPs have zoned the total land area for future housing far exceeding the actual housing land area required by those LP areas. With regard to the activity of distribution of housing locations, the study shows that the study area’s LPs only emphasised on the aspects of physical suitability, i.e. accessibility from the main road, adherence to the alignment of development corridor and avoiding from developing housing in the restricted areas. Consideration to the aspect of expected future housing market demands was given less attention except in the Pasir Gudang LP and in the Johor Bahru District LP. The outcomes of the activities are also arguably incomprehensive. All the LPs have failed to demarcate the order and priority areas for future housing development in the form of development phases and to stipulate the types of housing development (landed or flatted housing) allowed in the planned areas.