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THERE IS A RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION BOOM TAKING PLACE IN KINGSTON!

BY CLAUDIENNE EDWARDS
Observer writer—

 Rochester Avenue —

Several new residential developments have recently got approval from the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC), suggesting a construction boom across the capital city.

Allicute Construction and Equipment Limited will be constructing several two-story townhouses and studio apartments at 21 Long Lane, St Andrew.

The building application plans for the group of townhouses and studios was one of eight multi-family apartment and townhouse developments recently approved by the Building and Town Planning Committee of the KSAMC at mid-January meetings.

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Seven of the developments were approved at the final building meeting for 2017 in December.

At the meeting on Wednesday (January 17), one new multi-family development was approved.

At the Long Lane development, 32 two-story townhouses and eight three-story blocks containing 48 studio units will be constructed.

Another of the multi-family building applications approved in December by the Committee was a revised application seeking permission to build 33 two-bedroom units and 59 studio units at Crieffe Road, Kingston 6. The original application to the KSAMC on November 15, 2015, was to build 22 two-bedroom units and 42 studios.

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Construction Site

The Building Committee also gave approval for 54 studio units to be built at 25, 26, 27 and 28 University Road.

Over in the Paddington Terrace area — which is mainly comprised of older, single homes on large lots — at 21 Salisbury Avenue Kingston 6, 20 two-story two-bedroom townhouses and a three-story building containing 12 one-bedroom apartments are also to be constructed.

And at 8 Rochester Avenue, Kingston 8, approval has been given for the construction of a three-story apartment building of nine one-bedroom units.

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At 23 Coolshade Drive, Havendale, a three-story apartment building with nine one-bedroom units is to be constructed.

At the Wednesday meeting of the committee (January 17), renewed approval was granted for a previously approved application for the construction of a three-story apartment building of 12 one-bedroom apartments at 17 Birdsucker Drive, Barbican. Fresh approval was sought after the building was redesigned.

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