The authority wants to demolish the place for the road expansion but some of the owners of the shops cannot be found, and some owners were unhappy because the requested compensation has not been met. Therefore it was left uncared for years. The Timber, rood tiles, bricks, window frames of hard wood have been harvested for sale. Wild vegetation gradually took over the abandoned shop houses.
Few years ago, someone proposed the rebuilding of Kampong Kepayang for tourism – restore the building and realign the road. The scheme was shown at PHS Heritage Forum in 2010 but it wasn’t taken seriously by the authority.
The main street of Kampong Kepayang straddling the main highway from Ipoh to Gopeng. Extremely heavy traffic flies past the street all the time. A study from Badan Warisan Malaysia claimed that the traffic is the cause of “death” of Kampong Kepayang. The road is narrow and the stream of traffic is loud and incessant – simply unbearable!
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