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RIDGE, Christ Church: 179 Acres to be Reclassified to Plant Concrete

It seems like yesterday BU was at the vanguard of highlighting the indifference shown by the then Barbados Labour Party government to how agricultural land was being reclassified and subdivide to plant concrete. Eight years later under a Democratic Labour Party government nothing has changed. The featured notice was published in the Nation newspaper on…

rigg-town-hall-noticeIt seems like yesterday BU was at the vanguard of highlighting the indifference shown by the then Barbados Labour Party government to how agricultural land was being reclassified and subdivide to plant concrete. Eight years later under a Democratic Labour Party government nothing has changed.

The featured notice was published in the Nation newspaper on the 21 October 2016. A review of the notification shows it to be inadequate. While the notice advises the date of of the Town Hall there is no mention of the specifics of the subdivision.

BU was able to secure  a few pages from the EIA volume 2 –it relates to the development of 104 acres volume 2 we understand is 75 acres – to change its use to residential and commercial. That is a total of 179 acres. Barbadians have remained very passive on most issues – except Cahill –  which translates to this project moving forward.

These fields and hills -what are they becoming!

119 responses to “RIDGE, Christ Church: 179 Acres to be Reclassified to Plant Concrete”

  1. John Avatar
    John

    The last time I heard of interfering with the centre of the Garrison was when a suggestion was made for a new location for Nelson!!

  2. John Avatar
    John

    Ping Pong

    “…. it’s gone”!!!

    That’s for sure!!!

  3. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    coming soon !!!!!! MOTTLEY ISLAND

    Then she threw in a bold initiative to enhance Barbados’ leisure and recreation tourism product. Her plan would marginally “increase” the size of the island, in a fashion similar to the Pelican Island land retrieval.

    “We can facilitate the reclamation of 2 000 acres of land so that we can have greenfield property for our new tourism build-out. And we do this not by adding a cent in public debt but by passing legislation,” she said, and went on to explain that such new territory would be at the disposal of government for possible commercial sale. “But we will only do it after the appropriate social and environmental impact studies are done”.

  4. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ David / BU

    Start a blog to discuss the BLP conference and MIAs plans to govern Barbados.

  5. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Sorry David. forgot to say “please”.

  6. David Avatar
    David

    Now cries of water outages are being heard from residents in the South; Kendal, Kingsland etc

  7. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    More water outages ?

    More desal plants coming.

  8. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    MOTTLEY ISLAND will have its own sea water desal plant.

  9. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Ofshore islands were mooted yers ago by the Realtor Altman at UWI.

  10. John Avatar
    John

    Grandiose schemes …. shows they are all clutching at straws and know the end is in sight!!

  11. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    I playing tip an run firm.

    http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/10/31/bragging-blp/

  12. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Hants November 1, 2016 at 10:46 AM #
    “coming soon !!!!!! MOTTLEY ISLAND
    Then she threw in a bold initiative to enhance Barbados’ leisure and recreation tourism product. Her plan would marginally “increase” the size of the island, in a fashion similar to the Pelican Island land retrieval.
    “We can facilitate the reclamation of 2 000 acres of land so that we can have greenfield property for our new tourism build-out. And we do this not by adding a cent in public debt but by passing legislation,” she said, and went on to explain that such new territory would be at the disposal of government for possible commercial sale. “But we will only do it after the appropriate social and environmental impact studies are done”.

    Why not see this as a classic case of seeing the glass half-full instead of half-empty?
    This would present the perfect opportunity of turning that part of Bim into a mini-Amsterdam. Since foreign exchange is the name of the game foreign dollars will be the only currency of “choice” to be spent on “Mottley little Island called Big Clit.

    The wheel would then have turned full circle. From the Jewish Dutch introduction of sugar and its related rum trade to the trade in the pleasures of the eyes and alteration of the brain.

    Why not take Bush Hill a few notches up the commercial ladder by taking the business slightly offshore? Shouldn’t Altman be a keen investor as his ancestors did with the other trade in flesh?

  13. Nostradamus Avatar
    Nostradamus

    Whatever happened to the White Paper on Agriculture prepared by Dr. Chelston Brathwaite. A document quoted in May 2012 by the Ministry of Agriculture as being “the first step in a process that will lead to the transformation and repositioning of the agricultural sector in Barbados.”
    http://www.agriculture.gov.bb/agri/index.php?option=com_content&id=645:background-document-on-a-white-paper-on-agriculture

    According to a story in the Nation Newspaper dated Wed, November 27, 2013 reporting on comments made by Minister Estwick the paper said:
    “The minister told the country today that a White Paper on Agriculture, which should be going before Cabinet soon,…….”

    That was November 2013. This is January 2015. What were the report’s recommendations relating to conversion of agricultural land to housing?
    Maybe Dr. Brathwaite, the Minister, the Ministry or someone would be kind enough to send a copy to BU or make it publicly available?

  14. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Nostradamus
    Boss, Estwick is a shiite hound.
    NOTHING that he EVER said is worth shit…. be it about sugar, wave-to-energy projects, Middle East loans, planting bush to burn, water management, DLP management, Stinkliar, respect in cabinet, the gun incident, or just about his shiite-bar in St Philip.

    He speaks – or shouts – because people insists on inviting ministers to address functions.
    He HAS to find something coherent to say at such functions, but the expectation is that we should all take it in the spirit given – and forget all that he said …right after the function …. or better still- flush it…

    That such a cretin continues to wield influence in Barbados confirms our Brass Bowl status….

  15. Nostradamus Avatar
    Nostradamus

    Based on reported comments of the Chief Town Planner in the Nation Newspaper 13 August 2014 he does not understand why there are all these applications for residential development. See below excerpt and link.

    Cummins said there was a greater demand for building houses than there were people to actually live in them. “We have a population growth rate that is very, very small . . . but when you look around Barbados and the amount of development applications that we see in the planning office, especially for residential development, it begs the question where are we going to find the people to live in all of these residential spaces we are seeking to create.
    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/53801/housing-ok

  16. David Avatar
    David

    @Nostradamus

    Why do you bother, the subdivision will go forward.

    #thisisbarbados

  17. Nostradamus Avatar
    Nostradamus

    David, you probably are right but The Chief Town Planner and the Town & Country Planning Department need all the support they can get. They are not the ones who will give the permission since this is Agricultural land over 2 acres so it passes to the Minister responsible for Town Planning who is the Prime Minister. Same applies to any developments on the coast such as the Hyatt.

    If this change of use is approved, and several others relating to agricultural land, it will be a political decision and not one made by The Chief Town Planner or his Department.

  18. David Avatar
    David

    @Notradamus

    Similarly when the St.Davids, St.Patricks, Lower Grey ares were being carved up and reclassified we heard the mutterings from the usual suspects but what, these people are about fetching economic value even at the expense of the decimation of our quaint landscape.

  19. David Avatar
    David

    @Nostradamus

    BU posed the question to James Paul M.P. on his Facebook page.

    https://www.facebook.com/jamesdpaul

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