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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...

The Department of Planning is to run with minimal staff next week, from July 11 to 14, as most of its members go through IT training. The department’s IT system, which is coming to the end of its working life, is to be upgraded to the EnerGov system ...

Developer Tom Steinhoff has cast doubt over whether his plans for a restaurant at Shelly Bay will go ahead, citing frustration at government red tape and “disenchantment” at the negative response from some residents. The businessman has submitted a r...

Campaigners against a plan for a new parking lot near Shelly Bay playground said today they were celebrating after the idea was shelved. Developer Tom Steinhoff had proposed installing a new parking lot next to the playground for customers of a beach...

Dear Sir, Approximately 1,000 objection signatures, plus numerous individual letters of objection regarding the application by Shelly Bay Beach House, have been presented to the Department of Planning by the published deadline of January 29. Shelly B...

The City of Hamilton Plan 2015 took a step forward yesterday, as a tribunal heard objections and representations. The capital’s new development plan was unveiled in the Senate in June by Michael Fahy, the Minister of Home Affairs. It aims to replace...

The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce has won a Supreme Court appeal against the handling of the South Basin project. BEST launched legal action against the Development Applications Board (DAB) and the minister responsible for planning a...

A former jewellery store could become a new restaurant, according to a recent planning application. The application, advertised in The Royal Gazette last week, proposes changing the former home of Astwood Dickinson into a new 127-seat restaurant. Ast...

A dairy farm has been given permission to build a large prefabricated shed to provide shelter for its herd. Green Land Dairy initially applied for permission to build the structure as well as a new manure pit on the Smith’s farm in May, and amended i...

Plans to build a new chapel hamlet on the Morgan’s Point property have been given the go-ahead by planners. The Development Applications Board recommended that the development, which was proposed by Brian and Nancy Duperreault, be given approval last...

A developer’s last-ditch attempt to build a two-storey car park with more than 150 spaces in west Hamilton has been thwarted by the minister in charge of planning. Senator Michael Fahy dismissed an appeal by West Hamilton Ltd after the Development Ap...

The Quickie Lickie Laundromat in Southampton could soon increase in size, expanding into an adjacent retail space. According to a planning application, the laundromat owners are seeking retroactive approval to remove the partition separating the Midd...