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by MARIA BRADSHAW

ANOTHER MASSIVE MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR DEVELOPMENT has been planned for Six Men's,
St Peter, but this time it can have a direct effect
on the hundreds of people who live there, as well
as the fishing village.

The owners of Six Men's Estate have applied to
the Town & Country Planning Department for permission to develop 210 of the 240 acres
of land at Six Men's for the construction of a comprehensive development - which will include villas and a hotel for tourists, residential houses, a botanical garden, bird sanctuary, heritage site, restaurants, shopping mall and an 18-hole golf course.

A quarter of the land will also be used for agricultural development.

The remaining 30 acres, which includes Six Men's village,
a densely populated residential area and fishing village, is earmarked for another marina.

But that has been put on hold for the time being because the owners of the land are in a legal dispute with the Government over the state's attempt
to compulsorily acquire the land.

These plans were revealed
to the SUNDAY SUN yesterday by Leonard St Hill, a former Chief Town Planner, who is now consultant for the Broomes family, owners of Six Men's Estate and Six Men's Company Ltd.

St Hill explained that
the proposed development, if approved, would be constructed
in phases over a 15-year period.

He said this development, including the marina, was conceptualised since 1985 when the Broomeses bought the estate.

However, shortly after they acquired the land, St Hill said, Government sent them a letter proposing to purchase
the 30 acres of residential land.

St Hill said that proposal would have been rejected,
but the plan was abandoned two years later when the then Barbados Labour Party (BLP) lost the Government.

However, he explained
that years later the BLP Government again went after
the acquisition of the land with proposals that the Government would develop a harbour
for fishing folk on the property.

Those 30 acres, St Hill said, "are alleged to have been acquired by Government, but that is in dispute because Government did not follow the procedures and requirements of the law. Therefore an appeal has been lodged against the acquisition", he said.

In terms of the controversial land, St Hill further explained that the owners had made an application more than ten years ago for the subdivision of the 30 acres of land for the construction of a marina, as well as tourist and residential developments.

He said the consent for such was implied by the then government through a letter addressed to the owners by then Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance, Dr Carl Clarke,
now deceased.

St Hill explained that another offer, this time for $5 million, was made by the present Government a few weeks ago for the purchase of the 30 acres of land after the
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[johnthed0g]

But nobody wants this surely? nobody buys these places & it ruins the island.

[SUE]

All this over development is going to ruin Barbados, they will end up pricing themselves out of the market.

[johnthed0g]

It's just a relentless advance up the island, they filled the South up, then they move on along the West coast & now horror of horrors they are moving in on places like Sixmens.

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barbadosbelle
Bristol, U.K.
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“ Port St Charles, St Peter, Barbados ”
Oct 27, 2009, 1:03 PM

It is now a year since we were at Port St Charles but we hope to be on the island again next February.

Does anyone know what has happened to La Mer restaurant?

We know that it closed last year, but what is happening to the space? Has a restaurant opened in the location or is it just lying empty?

Sad if both La Mer and Sunset Isle at PsC are both inactive.

Would love to hear from anyone who has some 'inside information'!

Thanks
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1. Re: Port St Charles, St Peter, Barbados
Oct 27, 2009, 9:38 PM
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The restaurant has not re-opened I am afraid...and nothing opening there in the forseeable future.

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Dec 07, 2009, 9:20 AM

The area occupied by La Mer is being turned into office space, which is a great shame! Chris Hoad now concentrates on his other restaurant in Holetown called The Mews, and well worth a visit.

There are still eating facilities at Port St. Charles - there is excellent food at their Yacht Club, and the Sunset Bar is due to re-open middle of December 09 for snacks,drinks and the occasional early evening meals. December 7th by Maggie Anne 007.
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3. Re: Port St Charles, St Peter, Barbados
Dec 07, 2009, 1:05 PM

Thank you Maggie Anne

What a waste of a lovely environment (but fabulous for PsC staff!!). I did suggest to the owner of The Cliff that he took over La Mer, perhaps calling it The Lagoon, and ran the same menu there as at his main restaurant. I thought the two locations would really complement each other and that PsC wouldn't be too heavy on the rental because they would prefer to see the location active rather than empty (and all the kitchens, bars etc are in already in place). Obviously not to be!! Shame. Lovely getting t he water taxi from the apartment to the restaurant - even though, if it was a very late night, it meant walking back (good thing too - it probably burnt off a few calories!!).

Kathy
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I am guessing the numskulls in Tourism and Planning in Barbados do not read threads like these on TripAdvisor or anywhere else. They are still of the opinion that condos around a marina or golf course, or anywhere for that matter, are the equivalent of large hotels. Well, there is a large hotel next door to PSC, Almond Beach Village, and they have four or five restaurants which even in the depth of the current recession are all still open and busy. No matter how both tourists and locals tell these thick-headed clowns in Tourism and Planning that these boxes are usually empty they keep approving and building more and more. Port St. Charles could not support a single decent restaurant so the solution is to build another residential marina next door. I wonder what kind of office space they are creating out of the old La Mer restaurant at PSC... Oh, wait, let me guess ... real estate marketing

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I dunno but the above posts from visitors exibit, to me anyway, a sort of selfish ''how dare they spoilt that lovely PSC '' attitude. How I wish they had kept all the developments down in the South where the natural infrastructure has long disappeared, or the central West that was already blighted.