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St James PC halts illegal construction in West Gate Hills
BY HORACE HINES Observer West reporter hinesh@jamaicaobserver.com
Thursday, June 10, 2010
(Is this what Mo is doing on his several trips to MoBay)
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MONTEGO BAY, St James — Undaunted by persistent, heavy afternoon showers, Mayor of Montego Bay Charles Sinclair and members of the St James Municipal Police, on Tuesday issued stop-order notices on two three-story houses under construction in the upscale West Gate Hills community in Montego Bay, St James.
The stop orders came after failure by the house owners to provide the St James Parish Council with building permits.
The two three-story houses under construction in the upscale West Gate Hills community in Montego Bay, St James on which stop-order notices were issued.
The two three-story houses under construction in the upscale West Gate Hills community in Montego Bay, St James on which stop-order notices were issued.
Sinclair explained that the parish council has previously served these house owners with warning notices.
"We have not been able to locate at the council any information that building approvals were given. We had previously gone out and served warning notices on the individuals we asked to bring in any record that they might have to indicate approvals being given. Having checked those records stop and enforcement notices were issued. There were no compliance on the part of the home owners in bringing any record," Sinclair told the Observer West.
Sinclair also noted that during an intensified drive by the St James Parish Council against persons building without the requisite building permit, several breaches were discovered.
"We have found persons building without any permit at all; and we have found persons with permits but they are not constructing in accordance with the permit.They apply for a single-family dwellings but what they are putting in is a multi-family dwelling.
When people do that they are being selfish. They think they are going to derive benefit to earn rental from the premises but at the same time what they do is they overburden the development.
Then you are going to find motor vehicles parked on the road because you put too many families on one lot. You can't provide the adequate parking space. In one case, a 25-bedroom house is less than half an acre of land. That is overintensified. That building cannot be approved by any stretch of the imagination. That person got approval for two floors and went and put on an third floor. In that scenario where are they going to put the sewerage for a 25 bedroom house?" he asked.
Some persons have since visited the St James Parish Council to regularize their construction exercise, but several other violators are yet to comply.
St James PC halts illegal construction in West Gate Hills
BY HORACE HINES Observer West reporter hinesh@jamaicaobserver.com
Thursday, June 10, 2010
(Is this what Mo is doing on his several trips to MoBay)
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MONTEGO BAY, St James — Undaunted by persistent, heavy afternoon showers, Mayor of Montego Bay Charles Sinclair and members of the St James Municipal Police, on Tuesday issued stop-order notices on two three-story houses under construction in the upscale West Gate Hills community in Montego Bay, St James.
The stop orders came after failure by the house owners to provide the St James Parish Council with building permits.
The two three-story houses under construction in the upscale West Gate Hills community in Montego Bay, St James on which stop-order notices were issued.
The two three-story houses under construction in the upscale West Gate Hills community in Montego Bay, St James on which stop-order notices were issued.
Sinclair explained that the parish council has previously served these house owners with warning notices.
"We have not been able to locate at the council any information that building approvals were given. We had previously gone out and served warning notices on the individuals we asked to bring in any record that they might have to indicate approvals being given. Having checked those records stop and enforcement notices were issued. There were no compliance on the part of the home owners in bringing any record," Sinclair told the Observer West.
Sinclair also noted that during an intensified drive by the St James Parish Council against persons building without the requisite building permit, several breaches were discovered.
"We have found persons building without any permit at all; and we have found persons with permits but they are not constructing in accordance with the permit.They apply for a single-family dwellings but what they are putting in is a multi-family dwelling.
When people do that they are being selfish. They think they are going to derive benefit to earn rental from the premises but at the same time what they do is they overburden the development.
Then you are going to find motor vehicles parked on the road because you put too many families on one lot. You can't provide the adequate parking space. In one case, a 25-bedroom house is less than half an acre of land. That is overintensified. That building cannot be approved by any stretch of the imagination. That person got approval for two floors and went and put on an third floor. In that scenario where are they going to put the sewerage for a 25 bedroom house?" he asked.
Some persons have since visited the St James Parish Council to regularize their construction exercise, but several other violators are yet to comply.
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