The golf development is ambitious too. Designed by the vaunted US architect Tom Fazio, who once turned part of a desert into a tree-lined golfing haven, two full courses are currently being constructed on the hills overlooking Sandy Lane and its existing nine-hole course. Mounds of earth are being shifted by the tonne and limestone rock beneath the ground is being cut before being manicured by the gardeners. The courses, which will have impressive views of the Caribbean sea and Sandy Lane itself, will be known as the Green Monkey and the Molyneux, after an estate nearby.
A tunnel under the main road between the hotel and golf courses will accommodate golfing carts and pedestrians. Many of the hotel's kitchen and service facilities will also be located underground. Clearly, this is an expensive redevelopment, though it will avail of generous tax breaks.
Sources in Barbados estimate that these lands would bring the total space available from to about acres. This is significant.
A major part of the plan is to sell up to 70 plots of land surrounding the golf course for residential development. It is unclear whether completed accommodation or undeveloped plots will be sold. Either way, this will generate significant revenue. Not everyone in Barbados is happy with the development. One worry in the tourism trade is that the closure of Sandy Lane for such a long period and the recent closure of the island's Hilton Hotel, also for renovation, is depriving the island of revenues from high-spending visitors.
Although luxury accommodation is available elsewhere on the island, tourism trade insiders say no one hotel has taken up the slack. Further concerns have been voiced by a group of more than 50 residents on the Sandy Lane estate, where Mr Magnier has a home, who secured an interim high court injunction last year against the construction of a water desalination plant and a services building for air conditioning.
They claimed that these developments contravened restrictive covenants on the land, but it is understood that the injunction has been lifted following an interim settlement which is subject to high court approval.
In November , about workers on the site stopped work for a number of hours, protesting about work conditions. Asked about this, a hotel spokesman said: "They did not walk off on Sandy Lane.
They walked off on the contractors. Earlier, in May , the Barbados National Trust protested at the destruction of the original hotel building. A further complication arose last September, when five construction workers suffered slight injuries. Meanwhile, the hotel's restaurant re-opened last December to positive reviews.
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