KINGSTON, Jamaica — An application for a commercial building, containing 16 shops to be built at 136 and 138 Barbican Road, was not approved at yesterday’s meeting of the Building and Town Planning Committee of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAC).

The two-storey building, for which planning permission was being sought, would also have contained an atrium and restroom facilities totalling 1,555.0 square metres.

 One of the reasons advanced by the Planning Department of the KSAC and the National Works Agency in recommending refusal of planning permission, was that a portion of the land at the proposed site where the shops were to be constructed was required for road widening along the Barbican Road.

“The strip of land, a minimum of 7.3m at the Garth Road end of the site and 9.8m at the corner of the boundary along Barbican Road, as illustrated as part of the plan attached is required for road widening,” the NWA chief engineering officer said.

The construction of the building was also refused on the grounds that the strip of land required for road widening would completely eliminate parking bays parallel to the Barbican Road property boundary. It was also pointed out that, in the plan, there was no provision for the “loading/off loading of delivery trucks within the site.

Another reason given for the refusal was that the vehicular entry/exit point along Garth Road “is too close to the intersection with Barbican Road.

Claudienne Edwards