ST LAWRENCE residents want Planning to defer all consideration of an application for 129 houses on the edge of Goose Green Marsh until the Island’s new ministerial system of government is in place.

At a packed meeting last night in the parish hall, Don Filleul also urged Environment and Public Services to defer a decision until a solution was found to the traffic bottleneck at Beaumont.

Mr Filleul said: ‘Nothing should be done in the way of development until the States have solved the problem of traffic going from the west to town in every single way.

This problem should be solved before anybody puts the first digger into the site.’ On the day when Environment pulled major legislation from today’s States, saying that such important matters should be decided by the new House, Mr Filleul said that the proposals for the 129 first-time buyer and social rental homes, with its potentially dramatic effect on the parish and traffic flows, were of equal significance.