City Hall halts construction of ‘unauthorised’ Holmes Street building

Builders’ waste stored aback of the Holmes Street building.

City Hall yesterday took action against what it described as the unauthorised construction of a building on Holmes Street, ordering workers to stop working on the structure, seizing concrete blocks and demolishing a concrete bridge which was blocking the drain.

Town Clerk Royston King also warned that legal action could be taken. He said the four-storey building, which is believed