Topic: Development Control Board

Cabinet has appointed a new Development Control Board for the Sister Islands, replacing all seven of its members.

The Planning Appeals Tribunal has quashed a Sister Islands planning board approval of a 47-lot subdivision on Little Cayman.

More than three decades after a detailed document outlining policies and actions for development in Little Cayman was drawn up, residents of Cayman's smallest island are finding themselves repeating the exercise, and hope that this time, someone will listen.

The Ministry of Education has been invited to meet with the Development Control Board to discuss the environmental impact of its proposed new high school in Cayman Brac.

A planning application for a walled cemetery on Bluff West Road in Cayman Brac was refused after receiving five letters of objection from neighbouring residents.

If all of Little Cayman’s approved subdivisions were developed and occupied, the population of the Sister Islands would nearly double, according to the Department of Environment.

The Central Planning Authority held a meeting recently to discuss the timeline for completion of the much-anticipated new national development plan.

Plans for a new four-pump gas station near Salt Water Pond in Cayman Brac have led to objections from a homeowner and landowners who say it will spoil the tranquillity of the area.

A quarry in Cayman Brac, where quarrying work is taking place without planning permission, is damaging a boardwalk along the historic Salt Water Pond public trail, that was used in the 1932 hurricane to get people to safety, the National Conservation Council heard this week.

The planning board for the Sister Islands has approved, for the second time, an application by Peppercorn Investments for a $35 million resort to be built at Kingston Bight on Little Cayman, at the site where the same developer had been refused permission last year to build overwater bungalows.

The Development Control Board, which oversees planning on the Sister Islands, last week heard an application for the land-side part of a $34 million beach resort for which the developers are also seeking a coastal works licence to build over-water bungalows in Little Cayman.

For the first time in their history, the two Cayman Islands boards that control development and planning decisions are allowing the general public to attend their meetings. The decision was made public during a Wednesday meeting of the Legislative Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee.