Plans for ten new storage warehouses in St. George's, near the Oil Docks, have been submitted for approval in principle by the department of planning.

Old Ferry Road borders the site on the Southwest with Anchorage View Estates to the Southeast. The Bermuda Railway Trail runs along the Northeast and Northwest property lines.

Plans, submitted by architectural firm Linberg & Simmons on behalf of its client Tiqvah Holdings, Ltd., call for ten three-storey warehouses with 44 parking spaces, distributed throughout the complex, and one 16,000 gallon water tank per warehouse.

On the sides of the property that are bordered by the Railway Trail, the warehouses are proposed to be 15 feet from the Northeast boundary and 40 feet from the Northwest boundary.

The planning application affirms that the first storey of the warehouses situated closest to the Northeast property boundary would be "below grade", and the application promises a buffer zone of new planting along that boundary.

The development would require the levelling of the property's natural incline in addition to the creation of new access roads.

Along the Southeast property line, where the levelling would result in a significant drop from the level of the Anchorage View Estates property, it is proposed that the rock cut be "stepped" in order to ease the transition to the level of the new development.

The stepped cut would begin four feet from the property line, and the warehouses would be built approximately twenty feet from the Anchorage View Estates property.

"The design will make the best and most efficient use of the land, providing adequate parking and unloading facilities, whilst minimising the visual impact on the surrounding areas," Linberg & Simmons architect Robert M. Hopping said in a letter to the Director of Planning.

One of Tiqvah Holdings' directors, Steven Daniels was contacted but said it would be more appropriate to comment once the plans had been seen by the department of planning.