The Ministry of Physical Development is seeking to officially designate the Piton Management Area, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004, as an Environmental Protection Area.
An Environmental Protection Area is an area consisting of features that require preservation—not only for the present, but for future generations.
To that end, the ministry is working toward implementing legislation that will avert unplanned developments in the area, and will undertake a series of public consultations to sensitize the public and increase awareness of the importance of environmental preservation.
Chief Physical Planning Officer, Miss Karen Augustin, said to ensure conservation and protection of the PMA, legislation is key.
New amendments to the legislation will include additional protection for the PMA, in order to avert illegal or unplanned developments and to preserve it in its natural state as much as possible. This will also include the Sulphur Springs.
Currently-designated Environmental Protection Areas in Saint Lucia include Point Sables in Vieux Fort, among others.
The Department of Physical Planning is currently collaborating with the Ministry of Sustainable Development to identify additional areas that require Environmental Protection status.
SOURCE: Ministry of Physical Development
Excellent…and while you are at it, Castries also needs protected status….not to be left as it is but to be beautified and preserved for future generations…
The public would unanimously agree with this designation. Its the foreign billionaires that need to understand this.
No one would be developing on or near the pitons if our government would stand up to rich people rather than roll out the red carpet for them
And yet the government is allowing development over the reef in Rodney Bay at the end of Reduit Beach! This should also be protected!
Hope you Mean What you say we st.lucians..
Pitons should have been an environmental protected area from start.
What are they doing to the reef in Rodney bay
We the Lucian people not getting anything for us and the future of our kids with this type of development. Time for govt to focus on Lucian’s and not these businesses who are here from for a good time and contribute nothing. The little so so jobs might as well not exist. Focus on how to develop the people and land. Ban all developers from piton area. These are just playgrounds for rich people. It does nothing for st Lucia.