Tag: Central Planning Authority
Boggy Sand cabana owner makes new application
(CNS): The owner of a controversial concrete cabana that is structurally unsound because it was allowed to be built far too close to the water has made a new application for another cabana on the same spot. The latest owner of this piece of beach, whose recent application to build a house at the location […]
Neighbours object to football pitch floodlights
(CNS): An application by the Cayman Islands Football Association for pitch lights has riled up the organisation’s neighbours, who claim they are being disturbed enough already by rowdy footballers and fans. New floodlights at CIFA’s national ground in Prospect would put an end to any potential peace and quiet they have left, they claim. The […]
Ex McAlpine boss to chair CPA
(CNS): Ian Pairaudeau, the former managing director of McAlpine and currently a construction consultant, has been appointed as the new chairman of the Central Planning Authority. The board’s new members were published on the government gazette Wednesday, revealing an entirely new line-up. The one board that the whole community was expecting to be replaced since […]
GT 10-storey hotel to tower over 19th century home
(CNS): The developers behind a proposed $80 million ten-storey hotel in downtown George Town that exceeds the maximum height would tower over an old Caymanian house built in 1865 if the Central Planning Authority gives the project the green light. Representatives for HPW Investments Ltd, the applicants for what has been named “One GT”, are […]
More condo projects emerge for NWP
(CNS): The North West Point coastline has been rapidly developed over the last two years, including a number of controversial projects, and more appear to be on the way. Although a $12 million proposal by NWPR Group Ltd was rejected by the Central Planning Authority in April because the “mass, scale and height of the […]
HCCI to begin clearing new hospital site
(CNS): Health City Cayman Islands has been given permission to begin clearing the site of a proposed new hospital between Camana Bay and the landfill, even though no planning application has yet been made for the project itself. Hospital officials appeared before the Central Planning Authority to explain why they wanted to clear 3.441 acres […]
NCC’s ability to stop bad developments challenged
(CNS): The Planning Appeals Tribunal has returned for reconsideration an application that was declined by the Central Planning Authority after finding that the refusal was wrong because of questions over whether the Department of Environment is legally able to direct that board on behalf of the National Conservation Council without an explicit signed order for […]
Apartment application adjourned over new road
(CNS): An application by Pro Plus Construction for an apartment complex off the Linford Pierson Highway was adjourned by the Central Planning Authority after a hearing on Wednesday. The Yarl Development, which is also the subject of a re-zoning request, has already been scaled down since the original application, but is going be changed again […]
CPA to hear apartment plan before re-zone
(CNS): The Central Planning Authority’s agenda for today’s meeting includes a controversial application for a high density residential project in the South Sound wetlands that remains the subject of a re-zone application. However, Cabinet has not yet decided on the re-zoning, which poses a significant environmental and flood threat to the area. Pro-Plus Construction and […]
Developer wants to move beach from NS to WB
(CNS): The developer of the Rum Point Club in North Side and Dolphin Point Club in West Bay wants the Central Planning Authority to change the planning approval conditions on the Rum Point project to allow the removal more than 1,200 cubic yards of original sand excavated there to make way for the luxury condo […]
Aster PAD approved in face of legal challenge
(CNS): The proposed project for another medical tourism city, this time in West Bay, has been approved by the Central Planning Authority, despite the fact that the deal the developers struck with the government is subject to judicial review. While the PAD approval does not give Aster Cayman MedCity permission to begin construction of any […]
