Brown & Co - Property and business consultants with offices in London, UK, Poland & Caribbean

Barbados: The Area Development Plan (1988)

Brown & Co has carried out donor agency funded work in the Eastern
Caribbean and has experience in Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago
and Barbados.

The firm has specific experience in the field of
• .land tenure legislation
• .agricultural policy and economic policy formulation on land registration
• .land use planning.

This project, carried out for the Government of Barbados Town and
Country Planning Department and Ministry of Health and Environment,
involved inputs from a multi-disciplined project team comprising over
20 consultants.

As the project manager, Brown & Co members and staff led the project
working alongside other international experts in specialist disciplines
with appropriate local experience.

CONTACTS	e-mail	telephone

	Charles Whitaker	0017587177562
	Ian Youdan	01476 591991

The project delivered:
• Detailed Cadastral survey of all registered plantations and
  smallholder concentrations.
• Creation of GIS Metadata directory to incorporate data sets within a
  cartographic framework to aid decision making and land use planning.
• Review of existing agricultural policy mix and recommendations
  for change.
• Economic analysis of Barbados agricultural resources to include
  economic sub-optimal resource use analysis, water resources
  assessment and resource model preparation.
• Land capability analysis and land use classification.
• Recommendations for future land use for non-agricultural plantation,
  lands and yards.
• Evaluation of the future of the small farmer in Barbados agriculture
  and the development of a system of classification to assist .
  Land Use Planning.
• Land subdivision policy and land use planning and the preparation
  of the area development plan as a rural planning policy document.

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