The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has embarked on several activities geared towards updating the Town and Country Planning Development Order for Clarendon. 

The existing order governing the parish was created in 2019. 

The new development order will take into account changes in land usage and will seek to provide guidelines for the orderly, resilient and sustainable development of communities within its boundaries.

NEPA says an important component of the process to create the new order is the collection of existing land-use data in major urban areas in the parish. 

As such, 11 people have been trained as land use survey technicians to map critical data in major urban areas of Clarendon. 

The technicians will embark on a five-week assignment to survey Clarendon’s urban areas.

The aim of the exercise is to provide pertinent information as it relates to the use, demand and management of land in the parish.

The updating of the Clarendon development order is part of a bigger plan by NEPA to have up-to-date development orders for all 14 parishes. 

The exercise was undertaken in St. Catherine and is now being done in Clarendon and will follow suit in the remaining parishes.