The City Engineer’s Department of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has met with building inspectors to improve the processing of applications for building plans.
In a statement, the M&CC said that the acting City Engineer Lloyd Alleyne noted that building works are being carried out in several sections without the requisite permission, including some which have breached requirements for specified boundaries in certain areas of the city.
He, however, said that all building inspectors must comply with the policies of the council and ensure that persons who are desirous of carrying out building works adhere to the Georgetown building laws.
The release also said that application forms for building works must be properly filled out with three copies indicating a site plan, elevations and floor plans.
All plans must indicate all dimensions and clearly state the type of development desired, the statement added.
The release also noted that Alleyne insisted that inspectors should endeavour to process plans without delay to allow businesses and individuals to proceed with their development.
The council also stated that alleyways and other thoroughfares, such as roads, parapets and road shoulders, are unfairly appropriated by some businessmen and other individuals in different sections of Georgetown.
Thoroughfares in these communities belong to residents of the communities and no one has the right to take over such a facility without the consent or fiat of the council, it emphasised, adding that even then, special conditions apply to the use of such thoroughfares.
The statement also noted concerns over the construction of fences beyond the required height and the use of razor wires in the construction process.
This can have implications for human safety in cases of fire and other eventualities, hence contractors must be careful when considering the use of barriers, it added.
