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City Hall commences demolition on illegal construction
A section of the site that was being shattered with a jackhammer by City Hall officials Wednesday
The City Engineer’s Department of the Georgetown Municipality on Tuesday effectively halted and started to demolish structures that were illegally fashioned at the corner of Oronoque and Charlotte Streets, Bourda.
Reports are that a city businessman who had not sought permission from the City Council ahead of the project engaged the works.
City Officials condemned the works last week and issued an order for the halt of construction, which was quite extensive.
However, despite the order to desist construction works Deputy City Engineer, Mr Lloyd Alleyne, said that workmen were still on the site continuing the construction works and disregarding the municipality.
A formal application for the project had only been made last week Thursday and was likely to take a few weeks before approval was granted, City Public Relations Officer, Royston King had disclosed.
The construction had however started long before which was evident by the magnitude of work that had been completed.
“They have done substantial works on the ground. They are already pouring cement without the requisite approval from the Engineer’s Department.”
And there have been many occasions that the municipality has been similarly challenged, King had disclosed last week. “This is the problem that we face in many different parts of the city where people, instead of waiting for the approval they just go ahead.”
And the approval, he said, could be made available in as little as three or four weeks. Given the fact that the Engineer’s Department has ordered that the workmen be removed and the work be discontinued, continuance without approval could have seen the municipality commencing legal proceedings in the court.
And since it was evident that the owner and contractors had total disregard for the municipality, a decision was taken to commence destroying the work in progress until approval was granted.
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