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BUCKNOR

Community Profile

Community Area	0.510 km2(51 ha)
Community Population	1,150 ( 2001 census )
Residential density	22 persons per ha
Community Liaison Officer(s)	Damion Young
Constituency	Central Clarendon

Community Liaison Officer

Damion Young Liaison Officer Email:damion.young@jsif.org Telephone:929-1620

 

Bucknor/Rectory Lands is located on the outskirts of May Pen, the administrative capital of the Parish of Clarendon. It is 5km from May Pen town centre located on the road to the town of Chapleton. The community covers an area of 0.510 km and has a population of 1,150 (STATIN Population Census, 2001). The population density is only 22 persons per ha.

 

Bucknor/Rectory Lands, as can be seen from the low population density, is largely rural in nature with the houses occupying large plots. The housing is mainly permanent and in good condition, but infrastructure is limited and lacking in maintenance. The terrain is fairly hilly.

There is no physical or social boundary between Bucknor and Rectory Lands. They form one community, with a single development oriented Community Based Organisation (CBO), the Bucknor Concerned Citizens Association (BCCA). A third community (variously called "Bucknor Top" or "Mount Industry") is contiguous with both. This community is also included in the project area.

 

Bucknor was originally part of a sugar estate and was first developed before the 1940s. The government took on the development of Rectory Lands for housing lots, land near the rectory of an Anglican church. Subsequently Bucknor Top was developed and now there are some houses in a fourth area with only access by a dirt road in very poor condition from Bucknor Top. Bucknor is expanding into the uncultivated bush on the top of the low hill behind the community (it is stony land, of poor quality for agriculture), it is therefore likely that more development will take place in this area.

 

Land tenure reflects the way in which the settlement has grown, partly on government and partly on privately owned land. The government recently carried out a process of regularisation in Rectory Lands. Residents paid a deposit on the land (the amount depending on an income assessment) which will go on towards acquiring a title. This process of regularisation will continue in the remaining area. Most houses are relatively well constructed and in good condition.

 

Bucknor has a very active CBO, the Bucknor Concerned Citizens' Association, which in the last year has united half a dozen CBOs (including the Community Development Committee as it was in 2004, and several church and youth groups) into one. It has about fifty active members organising a variety of different activities from youth sports to community festivities to lobbying for community improvements, maintaining a close relationship with the Councillor for the division (May Pen North, JLP) and building a good relationship with the Police.

 

There is also a strong social support system among residents. Child care and care of the elderly are incorporated into everyday life. There is a very active basic school movement, which makes its presence felt as a community based development organization.