Thirty one Paget residents celebrated last night after Planning permission for a condominium development in their neighbourhood was overturned.

Independent Planning inspector Peter Cummings recommended that their appeal against the Development Application Board decision to grant Bostock Mews Development (BMD) in principle permission be allowed and Environment Minister Arthur Hodgson agreed.

And the residents' lawyer, Juliana Jack of Mello, Hollis, Jones & Martin, vowed to continue the fight against any further development deemed unsuitable for the two vacant lots on Bostock Hill.

However she noted that Mr. Hodgson's comments, while backing Mr. Cummings, decision had raised some concerns.

Mr. Hodgson pointed out in his findings that a revised application for a maximum of three dwelling units must ensure that no part of the development encroaches upon the Agricultural Land Conservation Area.

Mrs. Jack said: "The Minister seems to be going out of his way to invite the developers to submit a revised application.

BMD, which has been represented by Entasis Architecture and developer Calvin Simons throughout the planning process, wanted to build five three-bedroom condominium units and a swimming pool on two Bostock Hill lots which total about three quarters of an acre.

The applicants have declined to comment on the matter and did not return calls yesterday.

The application was granted in principle permission on March 17, prompting the 31 neighbourhood residents to object. Mr. Cummings was brought over from the UK to hear an inquiry into the matter on June 14.

The objectors main argument was that Entasis used their own zoning lines for the two lots of land, one of which is zoned Residential One, the other Agriculture Conservation, instead of the zoning lines determined by their client's surveyor Bermuda Caribbean Engineering Consultants.