The recently formed Planning and Development Department has made significant progress in reducing the backlog of planning applications, says Senior Minister with responsibility for infrastructural projects Dr William Duguid.He reported on Friday that 1 600 approvals have been granted since January, as the department shifts through a large number of applications for new construction projects.“..And those run the gamut – be it commercial, be it houses, be it private entities and all sorts of things,” Duguid disclosed as he toured the construction site for the new Hotel Indigo in Hastings, Christ Church.“What the Planning and Development new legislation did, is [that] it put a board in place and that board oversees all of the additional planning permissions, conditions, and helps to bring that transparency to the process. The other thing it did…is that it set timelines, and the Planning Department and the board works very hard to keep to those timelines,” he further explained
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