Squatters at Bellevue, Station Hill, St Michael were evicted and ordered to remove every trace of their illegal structures when officials from the Town and Country Planning Department swooped down on the area today.They were served notice to cease construction immediately and given 14 days to move the structures from the land, including building materials and rubble. The squatters were also instructed to restore the land to the condition in which they found it.Notices posted on the structures by Town and Country Planning officials indicated that the residents had been building without permission.“It appears to the Director of Planning and Development that the development has been carried out within the last four years and, based on a search of the records of the Planning and Development Department, that it has been carried out without the grant of planning permission required in that behalf in accordance with either Section 26 or 31 of the [Planning and Development] Act, 2019-5,” the notices stated.
