(CNS): The Department of Environment has once again directed the Central Planning Authority not to grant planning permission to the owners of a cabana and seawall on Boggy Sand Beach in West Bay to build any structure on the property. After failing to get planning permission in April to pull down the existing cabana and sea wall, which are falling into the water, and build a house on the site, the owners have submitted another application, this time to build a two-storey cabana.
But in its advice to the CPA, the DoE has said it is “futile to try to permit further development on this problematic site”, and has advised a “managed retreat” in the area to protect the much older adjoining house.
The site has become emblematic of poor planning decisions, as the site has been falling into the sea almost since the time it was built because it was constructed on a dynamic beach very close to the water’s edge.
“It is very clear that this site is not a good location for built development and the seawall probably should never have been granted planning permission a decade ago,” the DoE said in its latest submissions to the CPA, which is scheduled to hear the application on Wednesday. “It is evident that within a very short period the structure is failing, partly due to an inappropriate design and partly due to its position in an inappropriate location.”
The DoE said that in this case all structures need to be removed and a properly designed wall built for the protection of the...
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