FALMOUTH, Trelawny — Mayor of Falmouth and chairman of the Trelawny Municipal Corporation, Colin Gager on Thursday vowed to take legal action against individuals who continue to ignore enforcement notices and illegally develop lands earmarked for public purposes.

Warning that the construction of houses on land reserved for a long-planned sewage treatment plant in the Cave Island housing development is threatening that critical public infrastructure project, Gager told the corporation’s regular monthly meeting that the municipality now recognises that serving notices and stop orders is no longer enough, and persistent offenders must now face the courts.

“My theory is that although we have been serving notices, some way or the other, we must make our presence in these notices be felt in the court of law,” he said.