Minister allows 14-storey Blue Ocean project despite legal disputes View(s):The Megapolis Minister has issued a gazette notification, permitting mixed development on the eastern side of Layards Road in Colombo 5, including a section which is at the centre of a legal dispute between a condominium builder and several residents. The proposed ‘Blue Ocean Layards Road’ is advertised online by the developer as a luxury apartment complex of 14 storeys. The basis of the legal challenge was that the plot on which Blue Ocean was putting up the highrise is a ‘Special Primary Residential Zone’ under the 2008 City of Colombo Development Plan (Amendment). The amendment now allows Blue Ocean to proceed with its project. But Chairman Jagath Nandana Munasinghe admitted that Blue Ocean made a request to implement the project in the Special Primary Residential Zone.

Source: Sunday Times March 03, 2018 19:39 UTC