The Department of Planning will be embarking on a massive cleanup drive throughout ALL communities of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
In order to curtail and eliminate the problems of unsightly properties, which are destroying the visual environment, the Department under Section 58 of the Physical Planning Ordinance will be issuing Amenity Orders to persons to remove ALL waste, rubbish, derelict or abandoned machinery, vehicles, dilapidated or derelict structures or boundary walls or articles or materials of whatsoever kind.
The Department is urging all persons to be proactive by commencing the removal of ALL illegally erected structures, dilapidated structures (especially those severely damaged by Hurricane Ike) derelict or abandoned machinery/equipment or articles or materials of whatsoever kind from their property.
The Planning Department will begin the issuance of Amenity Orders in the month of April 2011 to ALL persons who do not comply with this Planning Notice.
Any person who fails to comply with the Amenity Order shall be guilty of an offense and liable on summary conviction to a maximum fine of US$10,000 or six (6) months imprisonment or both fine and imprisonment. To this end, The Department of Planning is urging the general Public to comply with this Planning Notice.
