business.

A "potential purchaser'' is talking to the Donut House landlord Dennis Chin about buying the building, which closed in June last year.

Last week Mr. Chin declined to identify the would-be buyer or what plans they had in store for the building, on Serpentine Road.

However he has just received planning permission for an office block on the site -- although Mr. Chin said that did not mean offices would be built.

"The potential purchaser wanted to know the boundaries of the property so I put in a planning application to see to what extent they can build,'' said Mr.

Chin.

Details of the office plans were contained in the latest Development Applications Board decisions, released last week.

The DAB gave the Meyer group of companies permission to develop the foreshore area and seawall on Wellington Slip Road, St. George's.

According to Meyer president Henry Hayward the scheme involves tidying up the area and expanding the marine boat yard, leased to the St. George's Boat Yard, over the next few years.

"Right now the foreshore area is just rocks and over the next few years they will be enclosed to expand the yard. Mainly this is tidying up the area,'' said Mr. Hayward.

In another decision the DAB turned down a plan by the Bermuda Telephone Company to build an OPM Equipment Compound by the Bishop Spencer School, on the Glebe Road.

According to the DAB the application was refused because Telco failed to submit enough information -- including an explanation of the operation and function of the compound.

OPM stands for outside plant module and it is used to store electrical equipment.

Elsewhere the DAB gave permission for John Barritt and Son Ltd. for new equipment areas at the Verdmont Road business.

The new areas include a new compression room and carbon dioxide filling room, as well as a cylinder testing room.