Beaufort

1.0 LOCAL CULTURE

Beaufort is a town and district located in Interior Division of Sabah in east Malaysia on the island of Borneo. The population was estimated to be around 61,698 in 2000. And now, the total population is increasing simultaneously which is estimated to be around 85,000 in 2009. Nevertheless, it is originally set up to help economic development of the interior of Sabah, its early prosperity was closely linked to rubber cultivation. During World War II, it was the site of one of the most skirmishes of the war between Japanese and Australians. However, its current prosperity depends on the booming palm oil industry.

Figure 1.1: North Borneo Railway Station.

Beaufort is a stop on the North Borneo Railway operated by Sutera Harbour Resort. The railway station in Beaufort dates 1905 and normal daily service is operated by the Sabah State Railway Department (Figure 1.1). Medical services are provided by the 140 bedded government hospitals which have primary care and basic secondary care services. There are a few private practitioners within the town area.

Beaufort is usually visited by tourists for the white-water rafting through the nearby Padas Gorge on the Padas River which is rated as a Grade 2 to 4 river. Plus, the open-air market which is known as tamu by the local is held weekly on every Friday evening until Saturday afternoon. Local produce such as fresh fruits, vegetable, fresh meat and live poultry are sold. The days of this weekly community occasion differ from district to district. Beaufort oranges are very famous and they are featured as 3 large orange sculptures in the centre of town (Figure 1.2).

Figure 1.2: (Left) The 3 large orange sculptures in the centre of town.

2.0 LOCAL COMPARISON

Two general locations which is circled in yellow colour - Beafort Jaya area (left side of Padas River from the Figure 1.3) and Pekan Beaufort area (right side of the Padas River from Figure 1.3). The four basic criteria over the most preferable location from these two are flood crisis, local population, facilities and development possibility as shown in Table 1.4.

Figure 1.3: Google map – Beaufort County’s satellite map.

Table 1.4: Differences between Beaufort Jaya and Pekan Beaufort.

Figure 1.5: Flood in Pekan Beaufort during 2006

Figure 1.6: Flood in Pekan Beaufort in 2006.

From Table 1.4 of previous page, it is suggested to buy an empty land to develop in Beaufort Jaya area because the advantages of this area are greater than Pekan Beaufort area in terms of flood crisis, local population, development possibility and facilities. The facilities available in Beaufort are located as shown in Figure 1.7.

Figure 1.7: Facilities of Beaufort County.

Potential Land for Sale Along Pan Borneo Highway, Beaufort

1.0 LOCATION OF LAND

First of all, it is essential for any parties involved to observe and understand the surrounding and topography of the land to be purchased or sold out.

Figure 1.1: Google map – Beaufort County’s satellite map

As refer to Figure 1.1 above, the red colour shaded area is the proposed land titles whereas the two yellow circled areas are the existing township in Beaufort which is Pekan Beaufort and Beaufort Jaya.

Figure 1.2: Rough view from satellite

These lands are flat land peat soil natured, so as the nearby lands. Nevertheless, there is only two access to the land for now. The first access is through the entrance of Jalan Labui as shown in Figure 1.3 and the second access is from the highway roadside as shown in Figure 1.4.

Figure 1.3: Access to land from Jalan Labui (red coloured boundary).

Figure 1.4: Second land access from highway roadside.

For the detailed view for both sides, back and front dimensions, the following figures from Figure 1.5 until Figure 1.8 will show the site view of these dimensions which is coloured in red boundary.

Figure 1.5: Back view of (1) - red coloured boundary.

Figure 1.6: Side view of (2) - red coloured boundary.

 

 

Figure 1.7: Front view of (3) and side view of (4) - red coloured boundary.

 

 

Figure 1.8: Side view of (4) - red coloured boundary.

 

Figure 1.9: (Left) Site view of (3) and (4) - red coloured boundary.

2.0 LAND SURROUNDING

 

Figure 2.1: Nearby buildings and development 

One of the major factors that make these lands valuable in the local market is the Pan Borneo Highway which is next to it. Pan Borneo Highway is the only highway of linking Sabah to Sarawak and Brunei. Hence, there is a lot of transport such as trucks and lorry which serve to deliver heavy machinery and materials pass by the proposed lands daily in order to reach further places such as Kota Kinabalu and so on. Moreover, there is a completed 600 unit terrace housing project opposite the proposed site, as shown in Figure 2.2 and 2.3. This residential area is called Taman Sri Panglima.

 

Figure: To Pekan Beaufort and Beaufort Jaya (blue arrow)
To Sarawak and Brunei (red arrow)

Figure 2.2: Terrace house units opposite the proposed land.

Figure 2.3: 600 units terrace housing (red circled), Vocational school (yellow circled) and proposed land (purple circled).

Furthermore, a current undergoing local government project which is a new bridge construction build by the private contractor Fleet Venture Sdn. Bhd. is located nearby the proposed site which serves as the primary bridge in future to replace the current old bridge. The new bridge is connecting directly from Bingkul to Kampung Luagan. Since before, the old Sungai Padas Bridge is the only way of connecting Pekan Beaufort and Beaufort Jaya, as shown in Figure 2.4. The new bridge which is titled as Sungai Padas Bridge 2 Beaufort starts to construct since 18th September 2009 and the stated date of completion is 18th December 2010, as shown in Figure 2.5 and 2.6. Consequently, the value of this land for future development rises up again due to the ease of transportation and deduction in distances and time wasting.

Figure 2.4: The first Sungai Padas Bridge.

Figure 2.5: Project signboard for the Sungai Padas Bridge 2

Figure 2.6: New bridge in progress (red colour circled).

Opposite the proposed lands, there are a few workshops and factories built surrounding it. One of the factories is the pre-mix factory where the service of road work is available as shown in Figure 2.7. Its’ actually location is opposite the vocational school. This is an advantage towards the future development because of the time saving and saving in transportation cost since it is near to the proposed lands.

Figure 2.7: Pre-mix factory.

 3.0 LAND OFFER

The price offered for the purchase of the as stated land titles C.L. 175342471 and C.L 175342499 is RM530,000 per acre. In other words, the purchaser is to purchase the land titles which are in total 47 acres.


For more information please contact Mr. Duncan through the following contact details:

• Mr. Duncan

          H/P: 016-8336116 / 012-8256006

          EMAIL: whzheng_1203@hotmail.com / beaufortland_1203@hotmail.com