Falklands’ capital expands south anticipating housing demand from oil developers
Anticipating a greater demand for housing from oil developers and support activities the Falkland Islands government is advancing plans to further expand Stanley. Additional funding to take in phase two of the Sapper Hill housing development to the south of Stanley has been approved by the Standing Finance Committee totalling £1.3 million for a further 27 housing plots.
It was previously envisaged that phase two would be progressed in 2013/14 but it had been indicated by the oil developers that housing will be needed at an early stage for staff, Director of Public Works Manfred Keenleyside informed the Falklands’ Executive Council in a paper.
“It also appears likely there will be other demands for accommodation for local support activities and there is a need to provide for that potential early demand,” he said.
The layout and outline design have been completed for the overall project and planning permission obtained, with detailed design having been completed for the first two phases.
The first phase of 37 plots is currently being progressed. Plot size was typically about 800m2, but ranges from about 680m2 to 1600m2 which provides variety to meet differing needs, Mr Keenleyside explained, adding that plot frontage was typically 20 metres, but this again varied so as to permit semidetached or terraced units to be located on some sites.
There would be no recurrent costs initially but these would increase steadily as electricity was used by street lighting and Biodisc, and maintenance and cleaning would be needed on roads and other services.
First year of costs is projected to be 2016/17 when Biodisc and street lighting would need to be brought into use once the first house was occupied. Costs might be expected to steadily rise to perhaps £5- £10,000 per annum for routine maintenance, he said.
Meanwhile Morrison Falklands Ltd last July started to work on the first phase of the Sapper Hill housing development.
Morrison’s Regional Manager Mike Butler confirmed that the work is progressing in line with the construction program, with the first phase consisting of 41 housing plots due to be complete by mid-April next year.
The initial excavation and sub base construction to the road and footpaths is now 95% complete, explained Mr Butler, adding that the next phase of works will be the installation of the Biodisc sewage treatment plant followed by the surface and foul water drainage systems.
A massive 23.000 tons of peat and clay has been excavated from the site with more than 10.000 tons of primary sub-base delivered from the Pony Pass quarry to date. (Penguin News).-
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Park Arbour apartments anyone?
Wrong Lookout. You're out of date.
Care to explain How? ... because so far they've not done a thing to affect Falklands business other than give them lots of PR on the world-stage that they would have struggled to get on their own.
Oil not going to Argentine just means Argentine workers miss out on good jobs and their economy on foreign income: I cant see Argentine businesses benefittting from any of the obvious expansion going on, and I cant see them affecting (negatively) anything to do with the oil & gas exploration, extraction or any associated business.
Its really just a lot of hot air and fewer and fewer people are listening (to Argentina's government) anyway: there is only so long that people cna listen to the same tired-old arguments over and over and over and over again.
It's gotten CFK nowhere and cut Argentines off from legitimate business....and that's about all CFK has achieved.
and CFK will sit in humiliation that they totaly ruined a golden oppertunity to share the golden goose,
instead they would rather live in the past,
being losers will be the least of their problems.
FOGL are certainly taking a long time to analyse the Loligo results.
And TWIMC, my interest is purely as an FOGL shareholder and not an overburdened, unappreciated British Taxpayer.
oh perhaps is for arrival Argie!
They do not need to build houses for Argie but they have reserved plots of land 6 x 2 if you should.........think.......that.... maybe ...you want to try again ?
He said “the falklanda will be the rich paradise of the south pacific”...
Boy, these 3,000 islanders are retards...189 years... and still thinking what to do, what to do...
Yes, you are right. These rubbish bloody english people don't worth a shit!
15... Yes that stupid that they earn on average £20000 pounds per year compared to Argenweenas £8000. Poor old Rgs to use a UK phrase they have not got a pot to piss in, probably why they defecated in the houses in the Falklands before they surrendered. Jajajajajaj
9/13/2012 Conqueror Captain Poppy Death Notice
We all attend your funeral!
@15 How are you, sussie? Still got your legs up round your neck?
@16 Yellow-bellied
You are finished,conquered!uk is a terrorist state!
Pots and kettles come to mind
I am here in Las Vegas having fun, good food and easy money from slots machines. Keep wasting your time in Mercopress Port-A-John, good, you need it all the time! lol
loopyloo
No one of the islanders have monies to travel to Las Vegas! hehehe
Oh! Mr. drip drip drip
Why don't you try to make up with your wife and don't bother SussieUS ...no more!
The USA Department of Justice sent me a letter about the UK team traspassing my personal information in web site.
But, the UK team cannot delete my comments in The Economist!
Viva la Sussie!
Please, don't pay attention on 28, we all know he is Jack the Ripper!
Putting future immigration policy aside, do I take it you now believe in the principle of self determination for the Falkland Islanders?
If so this is a major advance on the part of Argentina and/or its supporters and war might yet be avoided.
The Daily Telegraph reported that immigration had slowed due to one of the world’s most restrictive policies. Newcomers are not allowed to apply for islander status, giving them voting rights among other things {including the purchase of property}, until they have completed seven years of residency. That can be done only by repeatedly renewing temporary labour contracts. Even then, only 40 people can apply each year, and not all are accepted.
“No one who is impatient, no one who is not already British or is not prepared to become a British Citizen and no dogs”
200 years and still the Islander capitol looking like an Arg Shantytown in La Matanza, but without new hospitals, schools, shopping, etc.
Where is the donation button in the article?
Now whats the matter with the immigration rules, seems fine to me.
If the Islanders don't want dogs shitting all over the place, that's surely their right.
There are plenty of places that are far tougher to immigrate to than the Falklands.
@20 Then you'd better worry whyen we come for you. A nice dose of murder, pillage and rape! But then you'll be used to that, won't you? Time to reap what you have sown?
@23 Ten tricks a day for the motel? You can still do Motel 6 for $60.
@25 The “straight” word from cock eater!
@27 You know you like the drips!
@29 Hackers get everywhere, don't they? Apparently you are classified under “wh**es, cheap”!
@31 Don't be silly. Argie accommodation is underground!
@34 It's called being self-sufficient. Grow or raise what you eat and what you wear. Build what you can remove or repair. Meanwhile, a useful modernisation relates to the ease and speed with which minefield markers can be removed.
Same crap from the rubbish bloody english men...lol
please grow uppy
“The initial excavation and sub base construction to the road and footpaths is now 95% complete, ”
Look sussie!
A new Sub Base - great place for the latest British submarine, HMS Ambush to come and go from, and sink your toy boats.
LOL LOL
@40 It is a widely held and publicly expressed view that the Falkland Islanders cannot allow any relaxation of the stance they have always shown towards Argentina. You shouldn't hold your breath waiting for any encouragement for your solution from that quarter.
Lets face it,
The people are wising up to the con tricks,
Sick n tired of the promises and talking,
And now they realise that it was all a fake, to distract them all,
While they concentrated on the Falklands, CFK was lining her own nest, ready for the departcher.
Still,
BK will not be invited to tag alone .lol.
“BK will not be invited to tag alone .lol.”
CFK does not even know or care who BK and sussie are.
Both will be left to face the angry mob. :-D
#44 I'm in the angry mob, in Britain =)
who what why when where.lol.
but thats the way cookie crumbles,
is this not true,
2015, and ya get another go,
relax.lol
Cameron can be voted out, at least, in Britain.
However, you would rather publically betray your country and undermine Britian and British interests, just to spite your current Prime Minister.
You have the tools for social change in Britain, yet you would rather whine and shit-disturb.
Argentinians are about to have those very rights taken away from them - and YOU support that government!
I don't understand. Are you that miserable? Is the chip on your shoulder that big that betraying, and provoking, others is your raison d'être??
I think you must be obsessed, and I'm sure you live alone.
“However, you would rather publically betray your country and undermine Britian and British interests, just to spite your current Prime Minister.”
This sounds a pretty dictatorial statement...
The point is , in Britain, a democracy, he can have his PrimeMinister removed and still support his country.
In Argentina, the Kirchnerists are betraying their country and it's people, to keep CFK, a DICTATOR.
You must be kidding again!
12 USA embassies under attack= Obama & Clinton = FRITOS
4 USA embassies employees dead = incompetent security
.....yahoooooooooo ......the action has started... next the UK embassies including the one in Bs.As. jejeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeejeeeeeeeeeeee I can see the rubbish bloody english men running like rats !....
Oh! ...by the way....talking about the “royals”... the scandals continues with the latest picture of UK Prince William's wife bare chest....guess what ...the pictures shows she is flat ...no tits...what is she complaining about?
Only Sofia Loren is one of the few women that can show the best 44 inches perfect bust!
Poor rubbish bloody english men... yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!
the losers are going down the plug hole.
................
and their insults to the british have got them where,
knowhere, thats where.lol.
The Argentines have the opportunity to apologise for laying unmarked minefields on the Falklands, and for shitting in Falkland Islanders houses as they were unaware how to use toilets and, for 1982 in general (ie 1000 dead).
Argentina's fault.
North, Central and all Southamerican countries.
Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Portugal andGermany
Oman, Kuwait an Iran.
Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines andVietnam.
I resided in these countries: and all have the same thought about your UK:bloody rubbish english people.
@ 59
Come on. Move on. Lo pasado, pisado.
There are millons of argentine citizens like myself not interested in such islands. Keep the islands you know where.
Did sussie-boy get kicked out of each of them too???
Can't imagine he lasted very long in any of them - many less liberal countries have laws against transvestites and have no tolerance for the mentally ill.
same like Conor Louden-Brown a generic gay
every time Troy Tempest open his mouth ... 150 male penis point
at his english pink arse...
Keep touching your toes generic gay!
You seem to be the only one interested in my arse.
Sorry, I'm not your type.
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