Developers of what local residents in Beach Bay and the Department of Environment describe as a quarry have appealed against a Central Planning Authority’s refusal to grant permission for the project.
Whiterock Investments wants to excavate 285,000 cubic yards of fill from the site, which it insists is not a quarry but will be used to develop a single family residential sub-division on the property.
The Central Planning Authority refused the application in February.
The Ministry of Finance, Tourism and Development has advised people who objected to the original application that a hearing date for the appeal had been set for early December.
The Planning Appeals Tribunal will hold a hearing at 9.30am on 8 December at the Cayman Airways Conference Room at the airline’s headquarters. The meeting is being held there because other conference rooms were taken.
Whiterock is appealing against a 2 February, 2011, Central Planning Authority decision not to grant the company’s application to remove 295,000 cubic yards of fill from the property, Block 38E, Parcel 17REM4. That application was to modify existing planning permission to excavate the fill to a depth of 10 feet below mean sea level, land works and removal of fill at Mahogany Estates sub-division.
Residents of Mahogany Estates opposed the application, sending 25 letters of objection to the Central Planning Authority. The application also drew submissions from the Water Authority, Department of Environment and National Roads Authority. The February hearing was the third time the Central Planning Authority had refused an application to remove fill from the site.
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Whitrock wants to dig to a depth of 10 feet below mean sea level.
What they’ve excavated so far hasn’t be given away but most likely sold for a profit; this hole in the ground sounds like a Quarry operation to me.
Unless they’re a Dutch based firm and insist upon developing a residential subdivision below sea level in order to attract clientele from the Netherlands?
Something definitely fishy is going on here.
Why are they allowed to appeal?
They are trying to get this through by hoping that the local residents will get bored of it and stop fighting.
This ridiculous, environment damaging, application needs to be put to bed for once and for all. Perhaps large application and appeal fees will be the solution if nothing else will make them desist