Apartments at Warwick’s Grand Atlantic complex weren’t sold because of One Bermuda Alliance scaremongering, former Public Works Minister Michael Weeks said.Mr Weeks called on the OBA Government to apologise, saying they’d “hoodwinked and bamboozled the public”.The Progressive Labour Party MP spoke out during a Motion to Adjourn in Friday’s House of Assembly.“One of the impediments to getting those units sold was the then Opposition,” Mr Weeks said, adding: “They made it seem like the cliff was going to fall into the water.”He continued: “And now they’re looking to sell the property.”Government plans to repackage Grand Atlantic as a means of retrieving money on the project.A lone resident at the deserted complex declined to speak with The Royal Gazette over the weekend. During a brief visit to Grand Atlantic, two sets of what appeared to be sightseers drove through the site.One strident critic of the development, Stuart Hayward of the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce, said the former Minister was “looking for any rationale at this stage”.“We had our expert look at the area, look at its history. There used to be a beachfront pavilion with a road from the upper level, which were turned to rubble by the waves, so we’re not making things up. It was completely destroyed by wave action.“If you look at the cliff face, there’s a wide vein of soft sand that’s being eroded, and the waves are eroding behind the wall. You’d have to run a wall all the way along the shore if you were really trying to defend that area. You can’t tame it.”Conceding that the quality of the woodland hadn’t been high, he called the coastline there “a dynamic environment that typifies the real name of wilderness”.Added Mr Hayward: “Nobody likes to say ‘I told you so’. But we told them so. The words I’m using just express the frustration that all of us feel. This didn’t have to be this way. We would hope and the neighbours would hope that the developer moves off the site, instead of using it as a staging area for more development.”He noted the South Shore site had formerly been an extensive green area, with zoning for tourism and for woodland.“[Former Premier] Ewart Brown got an SDO in 2007 for what was supposed to be a luxury hotel and upscale fractional units, which at the time nobody could really argue with. That SDO was amended twice and it ended up with no hotel and so-called affordable housing. We can’t forgot how we got to this. And we want to make sure this kind of thing doesn’t happen again — where plans get dumbed down from something a lot of people could live with, to affordable housing that’s unaffordable. It’s a disaster. It may be that nothing really sensible can be done with it. No matter what we do or don’t do, we need to say ‘never again’.”