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Kuru Kururu the next urban centre – Housing Minister
Kuru Kururu has been identified as the community the Ministry of Housing is hoping to open-up for housing and industrial development along the Seosdyke/Linden Highway.
Housing Minister, Irfaan Ali, during a press conference yesterday said that since the announcement of “Silica City”, public response to the concept of a new urban centre away from the Low Coastal Plain has been enormous.
The Minister noted that Kuru Kururu covers an area of 2,700 acres but the Ministry is looking at developing 500 acres of land in the initial stage. This new initiative would be the centre piece for this year’s International Building Expo, where vital information would be shared with the public.
According to Ali, the Ministry will have two boxes at the expo to collect residential and industrial applications.
He explained that persons possessing acknowledgement letters from the Ministry for house lots and desirous of a lot in Silica City could put their letters in the box. And, companies or individuals could place their business plans or proposals in the other box.
The Minister stressed that there are different schools of thoughts of what drives development. He related that some argue that industrial development attracts people while others say it is the people who attract industry. As such, the Ministry is creating the environment for both pull factors to hasten development.
According to Ali, an estimate for the cost of the development has not yet completed. However, it is daring engineering minds since it is a sand base area.
“I think the engineers are researching the most efficient and cost effective option. There are countries that seal the sand. There is a special rubber generated from waste that is remanufactured into a mix that could be very cost effective,” he added.
Ali is confident that the area will possess a beautiful landscape owing to valleys and the rises.
At the recent launch of International Building Expo 2013 Ali introduced Silica City. He said that with limited state land available on the coastland for additional housing development, the Ministry of Housing is eyeing the establishment of industrial, commercial and residential housing on higher grounds.
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