Senator Gina Spence-Farmer has called for Government to rethink its rush to develop as the Island is gobbled up by fast-tracked hotel plans.

She said Bermuda at 13,440 acres was smaller than Disney World but had very little open space left.

"We have all looked out of the aeroplane window when returning to our beautiful island and thought how Bermuda is beginning to look like a concrete jungle and noticed the loss of green space."

Sen. Spence-Farmer, who is the United Bermuda Party candidate for Warwick North East, said large open parcels of land such as Southlands and Golden Hind in Warwick needed to be protected.

Earlier this month a Special Development Order was granted for a nine-storey 220-suite hotel to be built, partly on green space and area zoned as woodlands. It will be near the proposed Southlands luxury hotel proposal which is on a 37-acre historic plot of land along a south shore cliff.

Sen. Farmer said: "We must encourage hotel developers to build on brown field areas — areas that have already been developed."

But she said Government was riding roughshod over the people with fast-tracked planning decisions.

"We can no longer develop plans without the proper information, communication and due respect owed to the residents of Warwick."