The Bermuda National Centre has applied for planning permission to build temporary pre-built homes for over 100 construction workers on Frog Lane.

Deputy chairman of the Sports Centre?s Board of Trustees, Sean Tucker, said the homes were needed because of difficulties in finding homes for foreign workers.

?The wheels are in motion to start work on the centre core (at the Sports Centre) and our hope is, because of the construction industry being so heated as it is now, we are investigating the possibility of bringing in workers from overseas,? he said.

Mr. Tucker said the Centre had previously brought in workers from Canada, but housing them had been a challenge.

?We are looking into the possibility of providing modular housing on-site for them,? he said.

He said the homes would have beds and showers.

?We will go through all the necessary planning procedures,? he said. ?This is the first step in that process.?

To his knowledge, they would be the first ever on-site homes for construction workers constructed in Bermuda.

Bermuda National Centre applied on April 26 for planning permission to build temporary pre-manufactured housing units for construction workers preparing for work on the centre core of the Bermuda National Centre, PW?s access ramp, perimeter walls and the demolition of a storage building. ?It is a huge project,? Mr. Tucker said.