1st batch of allottees identified lands at Stewartville-East
Two families during the exercise on Friday
The first batch of persons allocated lands at Stewartville-East, Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) was able to identify their lots on Friday.
During the exercise, Housing and Water Minister, Collin Croal joined the allottees and their families.
The minister highlighted that the combined Stewartville-East and West Housing Scheme area accommodates over 2,100 allottees. Friday’s exercise was facilitated by the agency’s surveys unit and involved the first 200 allottees from Stewartville-East.
Additional batches will be called for a similar exercise as infrastructural work in the area progresses.
The first-phase infrastructure works include the land clearing, drainage networks, roads, bridges and culverts. Significant efforts are also being made to develop the main access road to the housing scheme.
“On Stewartville-East we have two more lots to be completed, which will be done in the next three weeks […] and we have one more lot on Stewartville-West to be completed before October is finished,” said the minister.
He added, “It means that everybody in Stewartville-East and West will be able to see their land before October is finished”. The allottees can now move forward with constructing their homes, as the Ministry of Housing intensifies efforts to promote homeownership throughout the country.
Over 5,600 house lots have been allocated in Region Three from 2020 to 2023, and $42.2 billion has been spent on infrastructural works in the region.
The ministry is putting a dent in the existing backlog it met upon assuming office in 2020, although it continues to receive applications for house lots. An evaluation of the pending applications for Region Three in 2022 stood at about 14,000, but as of last year, that number had been reduced to just over 13,000.
