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With the new cliffside construction on Harrington Sound Road, we continue to witness the destruction of our precious shorelines and valuable undeveloped green spaces. Parliament passed the Tucker’s Point Resort Residential Special Development Order i...

An historic Hamilton building facing demolition by a government quango was singled out for special protection under a development plan which was first promised six years ago. A draft of the North East Hamilton Local Plan 2021 listed the Princess Str...

A tribunal established to hear objections to the Bermuda Plan 2018 said changes must be made to address concerns about arbitrary decisions. The Bermuda Plan 2018, which details planning policies and zoning across the island, was tabled in the House o...

A historic buildings charity clashed with the Government yesterday after it was confirmed a historic Hamilton house would be demolished. A Bermuda National Trust spokeswoman said the Bermuda Housing Corporation, a government quango that owns the home...

Dear Sir, The Bermuda Audubon Society is very disappointed to learn that the Minister of Home Affairs, Walter Roban, has once again decided to overturn a decision of the Development Applications Board, this time to allow a private individual, Nelson ...

The Department of Planning’s Customer Self-Service website will be unavailable tomorrow while the department carries out an upgrade of its online management system. The upgrade is part of a plan to enable people to submit planning applications onlin...

During the Covid-19 global pandemic, the Department of Planning has continued to provide key services to the public and industry stakeholders. Statistics confirm that there was an uptick in developments presented to the Department of Planning, which ...

Power firm Belco has asked permission to create an electric vehicle showroom and workshop in one of its buildings. The showroom is planned for an existing building at the junction of Cemetery Lane and Serpentine Road in Pembroke. A planning applicati...

A law to crack down on illegal construction was backed by MPs yesterday. Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, said the Development and Planning Amendment Bill 2018 was designed to penalise construction firms who carry out work without planning...

A plan to build a ten-storey residential building on Serpentine Road has been renewed more than eight years after originally being approved. The proposed building, which would stand at 70 Serpentine Road where it meets Dundonald Street and Park Road,...

A monument to the island’s Olympic athletes could be erected in Hamilton this autumn, according to a planning application. The “Wall of Fame”, proposed by the Bermuda Olympic Association, would be placed west of the front entrance to City Hall. Accor...

Designs for the highly anticipated St Regis hotel in the East End are now before the Department of Planning. Building the 122-key St George’s resort is expected to take three years, as part of the development’s first phase. Assuming that a licence is...