Building’s new way
Chief Town Planner Mark Cummins (FP)
By Gercine Carter | Sat, February 11, 2012 - 12:12 AM
ALL APPLICATIONS to the Town Planning Department for building in a specially mapped out zone around Arch Cot in Brittons Hill, St Michael, must now be accompanied by a geotechnical study.
Chief Town Planner Mark Cummins said yesterday this was “critical to the assessment and the decision-making process” of the department, in light of the 2007 Arch Cot Terrace apartment building collapse into a cave, claiming the lives of a family of five.
Meantime, Justin Jennings-Wray, whose company is one of the few here doing geotechnical investigations, has pointed out that such probes can cost from $20 000 to $100 000, depending on the sophistication involved.
Cummins told the SATURDAY SUN the requirement for the geotechnical study came out of a report prepared by a committee of technical experts set up following the tragedy.
Read the full story in today's SATURDAY SUN.
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This is good to see that Barbados is a step closer to protecting home buyers. If only the Building code could be passed by Parliament, and proclaimed into law things would be great.
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