The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) will tomorrow transfer its responsibility for the La Parfaite Harmonie Housing Scheme along with the Goed Fortuin regularised squatting area to the Malgre Tout/Meer Zorgen Neighbour-hood Democratic Council (NDC), West Coast of Demerara.
According to a Department of Public Information (DPI) release, Chief Development Planner of the CH&PA, Germene Stuart, stated that the La Parfaite Harmonie housing scheme comprises ten sections of which nine will be handed over to the NDC. “These sections are the Westminster, phase one and two, La Parfaite Harmonie, phase one and two, Recht-door-Zee, phase one and two, Onderneeming, phase one and two and Schoonord, phase one and two. We will not be handing over Lust-en-Rust because the infrastructure is incomplete.”
Stuart disclosed that recently, discussions were held between the CH&PA and Malgre Tout/Meer Zorgen NDC where it was agreed that the local authority would assume responsibility for these areas and a Memorandum of Understanding will be signed to this effect. “The handing over process is a collaborative and participatory process, we had several engagement sessions to determine the readiness of those housing areas and we discussed the role of the Central Housing and Planning Authority in the continued development of those housing areas.”
“The La Parfaite Harmonie Housing Scheme was one of the areas slated for the intervention under the Adequate Urban and Accessibility Programme. In total, there will be 8442 lots in the handing over process to the local authority, along with the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on Saturday, September 14, between the two partners,” Stuart detailed.
Other supporting documents that will be presented to the Malgre Tout/Meer Zorgen NDC include a list of duties and functions, a road maintenance manual, a developer’s manual which will provide guidance in the planning permission process, a cadastral plan which is a subdivision plan to identify the various parcels/plots of land – such residential or non-residential – in the La Parfaite Harmonie area.
