Tag: CBLC Development Control Board
$8.5M building will house workers on Brac Bluff
.. (CNS): The Cayman Islands Government is footing the bill for a 38-suite block on Cayman Brac to house the construction workers who will build the proposed $50 million high school on the Bluff. The CIG announced the start of this CI$8.5 million project last week, which is being paid for by the public purse. […]
PAT backs DCB’s refusal for ‘offshore’ columbarium
(CNS): Plans by landowners to create a columbarium on Cayman Brac with three 12-foot walls to store the ashes of dead foreign rich people have been thwarted by the Planning Appeals Tribunal on the Sister Islands after it upheld the decision by the Cayman Brac and Little Cayman Development Control Board (DCB) to refuse planning […]
Brac school to cost under $50M, says DES
(CNS): Government officials have said that the estimated cost of the new high school on Cayman Brac is less than $49,772,223. The information was released to CNS this week in response to a freedom of information request we made after a planning application for the project appeared on the government website.
NCC members express deep concern over quarries
(CNS): A quarrying operation on Cayman Brac that has expanded its footprint without planning permission and a separate application for an additional quarry in Bodden Town on Grand Cayman fuelled a list of concerns for the National Conservation Council when it met for the first time this year on Wednesday with its new line-up. The […]
CPA queries PAT decision on Little Cayman resort
(CNS): Following a decision by the Planning Appeals Tribunal to quash planning permission given by the Cayman Brac and Little Cayman Development Control Board (DCB) for the land element of a resort in Little Cayman after a successful appeal by objectors, the Central Planning Authority has said the board should consider appealing that ruling. The […]
Over-water resort kicked back to DCB after appeal
(CNS): The Planning Appeals Tribunal has quashed a decision by the Cayman Brac and Little Cayman Development Control Board (DCB) to grant planning permission for the land element of a resort in Little Cayman following a successful appeal by objectors. The tribunal found the lack of details to support the decision meant it couldn’t be […]
Overwater bungalows refused by Cabinet
(CNS): A coastal works application for overwater bungalows on Little Cayman has been refused by Cabinet. According to the brief summary document of a Cabinet meeting held on 15 February, which was released on Wednesday evening, permission for what would have been an unprecedented and extremely controversial part of a proposed project at Kingston Bight, […]
Controversial LC resort gets partial green light
(CNS): A proposed new beach resort development at Kingston Bight on Little Cayman, where developers want to build overwater bungalows, has been given a partial green light after the Cayman Brac and Little Cayman Development Control Board considered the application last week for the land-side component of the project.
Brac bush removal not approved, officials confirm
(CNS): Officials from the planning department and the Cayman Brac and Little Cayman Development Control Board have confirmed that the bush clearance on South Side Road was not approved and that the landowner has been notified that he needed permission to rip up the bush and foliage that has been cleared. It appears that land […]
A defining test for our new Cabinet
Aristophanes Duckpond writes: Our new Cabinet is facing yet another defining test of its character and its pre-election and post-election commitments. An application has reportedly been made for a type of development that is new to Cayman, a type of development that would see developers not paving over our paradise, but literally building over our coastal […]
Over-water resort planned for Little Cayman
(CNS): Developers have submitted an application to the Cayman Brac and Little Cayman Development Control Board for Cayman’s first ever over-water bungalow resort, which they want to build on Little Cayman. According to drawings available online by architect John Doak, owners of the land currently home to the Kingston Bight Beach Bar off Guy Banks […]
