Work on Ile Soleil infrastructure to start early July 2014 |28 June 2014

Infrastructure works on Ile Soleil will start in early July 2014.
This was announced yesterday by 2020 Development (Seychelles) Ltd (also known as 2020DC).

United Concrete Products Seychelles Ltd (UCPS) has been awarded the contract for major works on the island and engineering consultants GIBB (Seychelles) will be supervising the works for and on behalf of 2020DC.

Ile Soleil, a reclaimed island of 123,000 square metres located southeast of the international airport, is the first ‘Nouvo Zil, Nouvo Lavenir’ project to be implemented by President James Michel's government (as part of Seychelles' Vision 2020) through the privately-incorporated 2020 Development (Seychelles) Ltd.

Ile Soleil is intended as a mixture of residential, tourism, commercial and public developments (including a meteorology substation, a public secondary school, a public health centre and condominiums), mainly owned by Seychellois.

All developments need to be premised on the three founding principles of nature, culture and education.

The infrastructure works will include provisions for water, electricity, roads, pavements, drains, street lights, sewerage, telecommunication ducts, bridges (including the connection of  Ile Soleil to Anse Aux Pins on the east coast of Mahé, via the fish market), added reclamation works, public parking and public garden spaces. Quality development and the use of sustainable development technologies and cost saving measures will be a priority.

2020DC has also confirmed that works will take a maximum of 18 months to be completed, that is by the end of December 2015.

Upon completion of the infrastructure works, owners of parcels will be granted 30 months from the date of notice of commencement issued by 2020DC, to complete their projects. This will apply to all, both to private and public entities, as after mid 2018, 2020DC insists that there should be no noise pollution on the island.

After successful sales of residential and commercial parcels were announced in May 2014, 2020DC had announced that it was in a safe position to launch the infrastructure works.

The second round of sales of the remaining parcels to Seychellois closed on June 13, 2014 and 2020DC is also planning to conclude in the near future the marketing and sales on a 98-year lease of the larger tourism parcel. The latter is open to both Seychellois and international investors.