A COVENANT dedicating the old Jersey College for Girls as a secondary school will be removed to make way for its conversion into housing.
Grange Developments want to put nine town houses and 49 apartments on the site, and the States unanimously agreed on Tuesday that a law should be passed scrapping clauses which dedicate it as a non-commercial secondary school.
Treasury and Resources Minister Terry Le Sueur said that the law would make possible the sale of the site.
The college was built in 1888 by a company called the Jersey Ladies College Ltd.
It was then sold in 1928 to the Schools Trust (Jersey) Ltd.
It was under that contract of sale that clauses were introduced, including the injunction that it should continue to be a secondary school for young girls and run according to the principles of the Anglican Church.
The property was sold to the public in 1935, but some believe that the covenants still stand.
The Senator said that they wanted to introduce the law to put the position of the site beyond doubt rather than open to argument.
The law will enable the site at Rouge Bouillon to be used, and sold, free of requirements to operate it as a secondary school for girls and free of any prohibition of its use for commercial purposes.
Article posted on 20th July, 2006 - 12.00am
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