CPA to consider Camana Bay’s residential project
OLEA development in Camana Bay
(CNS): A planning application for the first ‘for sale’ residential development inside the Camana Bay area will be heard by the Central Planning Authority next week, according to the recently published agenda for the first meeting of the board in November. The proposal for a 124-unit residential development, including 24 duplexes, 44 single-family homes, 56 apartments, 39 pools, a boardwalk-dock and a gym, is being submitted by the NCB Group, which is partnering with the Dart Group on this $37 million development.
Commercial development at Camana Bay continues, with construction of a 60,000 square-foot supermarket for Foster’s Food Fair as well as a new commercial building at 89 Nexus Way, which will become the Dart Group’s headquarters. A pedestrian subway linking Camana Bay and the Cayman International School to the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands and the future home of Cayman Rugby is another planned project, according to the Dart Real Estate website.
But the joint venture development with NCB is the first of the long-promised residential suburbs to the mini-town where homes will be for sale. While there are already apartments inside the centre of Camana Bay, they are rental only.
The waterfront residential community development will be located south of the Camana Bay Town Centre and adjacent to Cayman International School (CIS), which is being expanded to double the student capacity to 1,100 by 2020.
The development has been named OLEA and if it receives planning permission it will break ground early 2019 with Phase 1 scheduled to be completed in August 2020 and Phase 2 in February 2021.
Category: development, Local News
The dump is an obvious hazard to this new OLEA development but has anyone considered the proximity to the sewage treatment plant? The sewage treatment plant emits a significant quantity of hydrogen sulphide gas, which is heavier than air and toxicity akin to cyanide. Long term effects of low level exposure can exasperate lung conditions and cause neurological damage.
You couldn’t pay me live in OLEA. Nice on paper but not in its intended location.
Sounds like the country is on the brink of an environmental catastrophe.
CIG has deminstrated year after a year its ineptitude in solving environmental problems.
Yet, life gives us usual. Unfathomable!!!!!!
More secured developments are a necessity to protect professionals and their families from the ravages of local criminality.
You are going to need a moat but the help and their friends will still get you.
Oh thank god we do mot have any expat criminals. Check the cause list before you spit out verbal diarrhea.
Read about the health and specifically cancer issues associated with living within 3 miles of a landfill….and this a regulated version. Mount Trashmore has no regulation at all.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/05/24/living-near-a-rubbish-tip-raises-chance-of-developing-lung-cance/
Are there international laws that can stop this madness? EU can enforce environmental laws in Europe and order to close dumps and landfills. What role the UK plays here? It looks like a crime against people’health is being commitment in the Cayman islands. The Dump must stop accepting garbage and waste. Noone should live in the 3 miles radius from it.
In a white paper, published in June 2012, the Foreign Office declared: “The protection of the overseas territories and their people is one of the UK government’s most important responsibilities.”
The UK government recognises its responsibility to support a territory facing a disaster.
The Cayman islands is facing man-made environmental disaster. Local government is incompetent.
Where’s the protection?
Well, who is lobbying the Governor or the Foreign Office?
Eric Bush
Why do you expect someone else to deal with your garbage? Your government has got a half billion sitting in the bank.
They simply can’t. It is not about money. They have demonstrated over the years they are incompetent. Why do you want/ expect CIG to fix the problem? If they could, wouldn’t they have done it already?
You can sit and wait, that is your choice, but your children are true victims.
The UK obligated to step in.
Oh where is Nottenham Forrest now.
You think Dart wants the dump closed? No chance, because he’ll also have a stake in the primary associated health care providers. Isn’t Healty City building a radiation unit? The Dump is a huge pile of carsiogenic cash.
Now NRA toxic sludge would be the new addition to the Dump.
Run as fast as you can from the island of death.
This is happening under the watchful eye of the mother England. What a mess.
Plenty of toxic sludge already in there from Water Authority’s sewage treatment ponds in which was dumped EVERYTHING!
39 swimming pools. REALLY!
They better install robust water cleaning filters that remove soluble Dump’s toxins.
Sounds like future health issues coming soon being so close to the dump!! Bracka.
Anything dart wants gets approved …..
Future? Cancer is the #1cause of death on this island.Today.
Camana bay is a town planning failure that has ruined that side of the island. The road system around it is an abomination and every time they try to fix it, it makes it worse – urban 6 lane highways running through residential areas have been recognised as a terrible idea since the 70s, the tunnel over west bay road is an absolute disgrace that serves no-one other than Dart (everyone else gets the lungs full of toxic exhaust fumes). Dart’s so called “town planning” revolves around motorised traffic dominating everything, cutting off communities, creating swathes of tarmac, destroying the environment. If you have seen pedestrians trying to cross West Bay road around that tunnel, it ain’t pretty or safe.
And as for the nauseating 3rd rate cliche-fest that is Kaaboo, yeah, let’s bulldoze the island so a bunch of wannabe “influencers” can pay thousands of bucks to pump their fists to a bunch of z-list has-beens and call it culture. This is where all the money, and all the narcissism, and all the swaggering bullshit leads to.
Yeah, but soon I will be able to get a venti half caf no foam misto with two pumps of sugarfree vanilla!
It leads to Dart Royalty .
If anyone is interested in seeing where this is going, just take a look at http://www.cnu.org.
Congress for New Urbanism. It is the blueprint for the future as designated by the United Nations and its think tanks.
You may like it, dislike it or be indifferent, but do not be ignorant. Educate yourselves.
The development at Camana Bay courtesy of OLIN, is a regular topic at CNU annual meetings.
It is amazing how many sci-fi movies of the 60s and 70s predicted this.
Anyone remember Logan’s Run?
Thanks. In Europe they call it a Town. Been doing it for thousand years.
Typical. It is not what, it is how.
You are being silly. Just because Americans think it amazing to be able to walk to work, a post office, a school and a cafe, does not mean there is anything new or novel about it.
Don’t blame us. We live as we please, and you can too.
This is a 2×4 rock surrounded by water, not a continental Europe. No need for any sort of urbanisation. Besides, none of the European developments has a Dump in the backyard.
And it is going to get worse. Instead of building garbage sorting and recycling facility, they will continue poisoning you to death with incinerators, aka WTE or garbage in, garbage out.
Why nobody holds CIG responsible for breaking international environmental law? Why the UK allows this to happen?
“Dart is in the final stages of contract negotiations over a project to remediate the landfill site and replace it with a modern waste management system including a waste-to-energy plant.
The resolution to the landfill issue, an unsightly and sometimes foul-smelling neighbor on Camana Bay’s southern border,..”. Compass had a nerve to put a word ” sometime” in the above sentence.
You cant remediate an open air Dump that has no lining. You just can’t! Nomatter what they’re telling you.
CPA neee to address the toxicity of the dump. That area is not fit for residential purposes. Imagine buying a home so close to an uncapped and unregulated dumping ground anywhere else in the world.
“Authorities were forced to close down a previous landfill at Temploni, following an EU fine for breaching environmental regulations. “[Corfu, greek island]
WHO can force Cayman authorities to close GT dump and fine them for breaching environmental regulations?
http://enimerosi.com/details_en.php?id=23810
What happens when countries break EU environmental law?
https://www.clientearth.org/happens-countries-break-eu-law/
Why in Cayman they are allowed to build schools and residences in health hazardous environment?
What role the UK plays in this mess?
Cayman needs its own Magda Papanikolopoulou.
“The Temploni villagers, led by Magda Papanikolopoulou, a formidable woman in her sixties, reached breaking point in May when they decided to block the gates to the 40-year-old landfill site, as well as taking the mayor and his deputy to court for failing in their duties to protect the environment. The officials were arrested and given suspended jail sentences by a local court.”
(Politico article about the waste management problem in Corfu.)
http://enimerosi.com/details_en.php?id=23810
See this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr1CWRc174o
If it receives permission, give me a break! ALT and the rest of the board will fall all over themselves with the flowing praise for this much needed development. Why tie up our overworked boards with this nonsense, rubber stamp and move on Dude!
living next to a dump, and fully reserved?! the worlds gone mad
The nerve of Dart building eco-friendly homes…what’s next a public library, schools, a hospice or even worse a recreation facility.
I hate this guy sooo much…
Let’s post a bunch of nonsense to make ourselves feel better for missed opportunities.
The Darts are not building the Hospice facility. They generously provided land they didn’t need .
The funds and services to build the facility have been raised and donated by many kind and socially conscious private citizens, for the common good.
Why the thumbs down. Derek Haines personally raised $1.5 m through his running and the public the rest. Dart did generously donate the land.
No argument here, both him, Derek and many others contributed to a great cause with the hospice. Just pointing out that Dart does a lot of good on this island, more then a lot of other developers.
There are no other developers!
Davenport, Whelon, Butler, Bronte, Crighton, Ryan, Imperado, Baraud etc.
There are quite a few…
You’re delusional!
It scares me that CIS can operate as a school so close to the toxic dump. Now people will actually live there? This wouldn’t be permitted in the first world, especially a school.
Get a grip.
yet a high school built here cost $200 million.
Nice! Dump or no dump, $37m 124 unit development means you can buy in there for under $300K I am in!
Lol nope
That’s what it will cost them, not cost you smarty
Plus monthly fees that ain’t cheap.
Before you buy, read this study
“Wasted Health: The tragic case of dumpsites – ISWA”
You might change your mind, unless you’re in a hurry to checkout.
Agenda 21 in full swing. Soon, we will all be in gated communities.
Only the tinfoil hat brigade ever refer to Agenda 21.
This is so exciting. It will offer a place to live protected from the risks of local criminality.
Yes, now go and hide under your bed until it’s safe!
But you probably are paying your help $6 an hour and looking for some one for less
Before I answer, are we talking, US or CI?
I would like to see just one person who would pay 1mil. + to live at the foot of the Dump. Remediated or not.
Remember, it is not a landfill that is properly lined and monitored and could be capped. It is a timing bomb. A mad scientist’s dream.
Surprised that they believe there are idiots who would buy it.
Sold out in a day.
To each its own
I seriously doubt. Only unsuspecting investors from Russia or China would buy it. Once they learn what exactly they’re buying, they would backout.
As for the school expansion, I am speechless.
Not a problem their as Decco told CHEC they will have housing for all the needed workers for the port and all the other projects they will be tackling.
Do they actually consider anything Dart does or did they just hand Dart a rubber stamp so he can approve everything himself? Thought so!
Just wondering. Anyone know who the locally licensed architects and engineers are on these wonderful projects?
No, but they obviously have all needed licenses. It is a crime to conduct a trade or business in Cayman without a license.
Dart runs his own stable of local architects- whether they are ‘licensed’ or not, can be verified at Dept Trade & Business. There is no requirement that Dart needs a ‘licensed’ architect or engineer to prepare the plans necessary to support a planning application. Anyone in Cayman can make a planning application for any land or parcel- as long as the fees are paid…
Thanks. Are you the local architect that did all this work and filed these plans? It looks beautiful. I am am surprised you say architects do not need to be licensed. I thought everyone conducting business in Cayman did.
One can hire someone outside Cayman. They don’t need a licence then.
Yes
How does 2/3 of a development get sold to the public without this already happening.
Reserved, not sold – doubt purchasing funds will be received until ground is broken. I expect at this point they are just being reserved with proof of funds and/or minimal percentage-based refundable deposits, refundable dependent on CPA approval.
“A pedestrian subway”- do you mean a tunnel? Pedestrian subway, pretentiousness.
In the UK a subway IS a tunnel underground for use by pedestrians.
Maybe try google before you post.
“In the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Hong Kong and Commonwealth countries such as India, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, a subway is normally an underpass for pedestrians and/or cyclists beneath a road or railway, allowing them to reach the other side in safety”
In ‘Murica it’s a sammich.
Learn to speak the Queen’s English. You come across as a fool, posting out of pure ignorance.
this is news???
My house plans are also in for consideration, where’s my news story? Favourtism.