The Georgetown municipality has challenged the right of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) to object to its decision to allow the construction of a seventh floor at the Camp and Robb streets junction, while claiming that its approval does not in any way affect the High Court injunction that was issued to block the development.
The CH&PA, in a letter dated August 29, 2016, told Town Clerk Royston King that no approval should have been given to the owner of the building for the addition without first seeking its approval.
Acting Chief Planning Officer Fayola Azore, writing on behalf of the agency, had also claimed that the granting of permission by the city is
