Owners of workspaces in the Bussa Industrial Premises Co-operative Society Limited, in Prabhadevi, have sounded the alarm at the rapid and ongoing shrinking of the access road to their 45-year-old premises. The Bussa industrial premises were formed in 1973. It is a commercial society comprising a ground-plus-four storey structure housing approximately 125 galas, which manufacture everything from paper to wood and other flammable materials. It is tucked away inside Century Bazaar lane, amidst rapidly developing luxury skyscrapers in a changing Prabhadevi landscape.

Those who own industrial units in the premises, have seen the entry and exit road to the estate shrink dramatically through the years, as slum rehabilitation towers have literally circled and dwarfed it. They believe things are now at a tipping point and with the number of fires in buildings in the city; they are sitting ducks for a disaster of a similar sort. "It has been two years since our access road has been completely encroached upon," office-bearers of the society claimed, backed by at least 100 other members.