Plans for the Gouves Township to construct a road in the village of Pano Gouves have met with opposition from Dougal and Miranda Brown, who stand to lose 80 square meters of their 2.000 square-meter property.

The Browns let the township know of their plans to fight the acquisition of their property at a recent meeting in their home, which was attended by Yiannis Pachiathakis, the township’s attorney, and Councilman Yiorgos Hirakakis.

Apparently, the township is proposing to take equal amounts of land from several property owners, the Browns and their neighbours, in order to provide access to the all the lots.

The other property owners involved have already agreed to the plan.

“If other people want this road it should come off their property, as we have adequate access to our house which we have already paid for,” Mrs. Brown told The Khronicles. She said the township told them they think a road used to be there, but it has produced no relevant plans or maps.

Mr. Hirakakis presented the Browns with two options:

a)     To give four meters in order for the road, which passes many lots and stops in front of their property, before continuing on to meet the road on the other side.

b)     To give two meters along the common boundaries with neighboring lots for a road which would be some distance from their house.

The Browns rejected both proposals.

Mr. Hirakakis advised this newspaper that, according to testimony from locals, the road in the first proposal existed as far back as 1923, although there are no longer any topographical diagrams to that effect.

“The road will go through legally as long as there are locals willing to give sworn testimony to its previous existence,” he said.