mumbai thane municipal corporation has issued a stopwork order against casa univis a luxury township project by one of indias biggest builders lodha developers the project involves development of 26 towers over 55 acres in ghodbunder road in thane the municipal authority issued the order on february 23 citing violation of norms including construction of extra floors beyond the received sanction sources in the corporation told et according to sources the developer had submitted 11 separate proposals for separate building at the project but had never submitted any integrated proposal to the corporation in all the 10 proposals that we had sanctioned there is some or the other violation most of these refer to excess construction there are at least three buildings where approval was given for seven floors while the developer has built 18 floors said one of the sources in the corporation abhisheck lodha managing director of lodha developers could not be reached on his mobile while text message also failed to elicit any response for the story one out of the 11 proposals was not even processed on the request of the developers architect however lodha has constructed a 12storey building on this very plot without any permission and the corporation has issued an order now to demolish this entire structure the source said following the orders issued on february 23 by the municipal corporation lodha developer has now filed an application with the corporation on march 4 showing an intention to merge all these plans into one the realty developer has also shown preparedness to be penalised to get these structures regularised its very difficult now to get approvals for an amalgamated plan for these buildings in fact allowing such an integration itself may not be possible the source said according to him the layout situation is not flexible and the land already has these structures constructed on it also when the developer decides to integrate the project it will also require environmental clearance