Landowners to get $$$ for Brandywine Bay beach development!
Speaking at a community meeting last evening May 8, 2012, Minister for Natural Resources and Labour, Dr. Kedrick Pickering, announced that for the future development of Brandywine Bay “the road would have to be moved”.
“The beach will be transformed into a major entertainment centre for locals and tourists...[but] landowners in the area are not interested in entertaining any discussions until their compensation claims are taken care of, and I am happy to report that we are almost in the final stages in finalising those claims to the point where we are cutting some cheques,” Hon. Pickering told a sizeable crowd at the East End/Long Look Community Centre.
During his debate in the House of Assembly (HOA) earlier in the year, the Natural Resources and Labour Minister had stated that is was “difficult and nearly impossible” to do any major development of that area with the road so close to the beach.
“And that entails some very detailed and sensitive discussions and negotiations with the land owners that surround there. One of the big problems that is outstanding is that there are patches of land on the beach front that the immediate landowners claim that they have outstanding claims on the land and we are working diligently to see how we could get those claims rectified, and as soon we can get that done, then the next step will be to enter some negotiations with the other land owners around, to see how best we could move the road from being so close to the beach to ensure that the beach front can be developed in a way without being inhibited by the closeness of the road,” he had explained.
Additionally, a bulletin on April 20, 2012, issued by the Ministry had invited property owners and/or beneficiaries of Parcels 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19, Block 3237B, Long Look Registration Section, which are adjacent to the beach, to visit the Ministry before Friday, May 4.
The Brandywine Bay Beach Development Project commenced in 2004 with the aim of providing an alternate beach site for the over 500,000 cruise passengers who visit the Territory annually.
Furthermore, Hon. Pickering announced that his Ministry has secured the services of Bertrand Lettsome as a Consultant to the Ministry to tackle beach management, the East End/Fat Hog’s Bay Harbour project and the Terrance B. Lettsome Airport development.
Lettsome is the former Chief Conservation and Fisheries Officer and an Independent At-Large Candidate in last year's general election.
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