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Nicholls Building. (FP)

By Heather-Lynn Evanson | Mon, January 23, 2012 - 12:11 AM

Town and Country Planning legislation protecting listed buildings could be in for a revamp.

This was revealed by Acting Deputy Chief Town Planner George Browne, who was speaking in the wake of the Stop Notice and an Enforcement Notice which have halted work on the 1650s Dutch-influenced Nicholls Building at the corner of Lucas and James Streets.

Recent construction work on the historic building has erased traces of its distinctive curvilinear gables and has destroyed its quoins and parapet.

It prompted historian Dr Karl Watson to ask whether there was an agency charged with the responsibility of ensuring that any renovations to any listed building were carried out within the guidelines set out by UNESCO, the agency that had bestowed World Heritage status on Bridgetown and its Garrison.

Read the full story in today's DAILY NATION.

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Posted by J. Payne 4 months ago: A next thing about Barbados I can’t understand. If entities don’t have a finished website ready to host live, why don’t they leave up the current site in the meantime. There *was* a list of protected features, on buildings at http://www.bajanworldheritage.com but now it’s been taken down and nothing put back up half a year later. The old site could have made due all like now and people cold have gone on there to look at what ‘crowning’ of the building this article is talking about.