Dura Villa Homes Ready for Occupancy; Old St Bartholomew’s Girls’ School Site to be Part of National Housing Plan

Some of the promised Dura Villa homes from 2022 are ready to be inhabited. In addition, the site of the old St Bartholomew’s Girls’ School will now be part of the National Housing Development Plan.

The disclosures were made on Tuesday by Minister of Housing, Lands and Maintenance Dwight Sutherland in the House of Assembly as he spoke on a resolution to vest the 2.01 acres of the old school site in Christ Church to the National Housing Corporation (NHC).

He said the school closed in 1995, “when the boys and the girls merged and . . . the site was handed over to the state by the Ministry of Education in 1996”.

“This land, once acted upon in terms of development of infrastructure and housing, should give us some 36 housing solutions. When we look at the dire situation in the country, such as fires and hurricanes leaving people homeless . . . and at NHC we have over 10 000 applicants for housing, the 36 housing solutions is just a dent in the ocean with respect to what we need in terms of providing not only social housing, but low and middle income and affordable housing.”