A development control administration system for the Town and Country Development Planning Office, Barbados

The process is described of designing a computerized development control administration system for the Town and Country Development Planning Office (TCDPO) in the island of Barbados. The first phase of the study involved an analysis of the process of development control administration and concluded that the bottlenecks in the system which is processing over 3000 applications each year, could not be reduced by using any extension of manual methods. The functions identified for computerization included generating forms and letters, creating registers, updating and tracking the status of applications, scheduling site visits, and formatting reports. Proposals for automating these functions were also constrained by the need to preserve the present process of development control, the need to continue to employ existing staff, and the need to purchase any hardware and software locally. Tenders have already been let for the system and it will be operational by early 1990.