(CNS): A controversial application to completely clear a parcel of land of the remaining vegetation, which includes primary mangrove habitat, to store construction materials and dump dug-out soil from other sites was knocked back by the new members of the Central Planning Authority at their first meeting in July. An application by K&B Ltd to use a site on Hurley Merren Boulevard as a construction compound was refused by the CPA.
Explaining the decision, the board said the applicant was proposing an industrial site that was inconsistent with the zoning for neighbourhood commercial and had not demonstrated it would service the needs of the community.
The developers wanted to use the parcel ahead of future plans to build a mixed-use development on the site, describing it as “a temporary material and equipment storage and dump area for the dug-out soil” from other ongoing construction projects the landowner was involved in.
During the CPA meeting the lawyer representing the applicants said they needed somewhere to put the material and equipment for the Grand Palmera project behind Grand Harbour because his client could not find anywhere else to put it. The application for development would be submitted in two or three months time, the lawyer said.
The applicant had been granted after-the-fact permission in March 2020 following the illegal clearing of around one acre of the site, which was discovered in January 2020 by the Department of Environment. At the time, the CPA...
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