Court threat over third house refusal
Tuesday 2nd June 2009, 2:58PM BST.
La Hougue Bie Nurseries in Grouville. Picture: Peter Mourant (00705780)
ONE of Jersey’s most prominent farmers has threatened to take the Planning Department to court unless he is given permission to build a third house in the countryside.
Tom Binet, the Jersey Royal Company managing director, already has permission to demolish La Hougue Bie Nurseries in Grouville to build two houses, but was refused planning permission to build a third building at a Planning applications panel meeting last year.
He has since applied to Planning for a ‘request for reconsideration’ for the third building.
At a ministerial meeting on Friday, planning officer Roy Webster said that an appeal by Mr Binet to the Royal Court had been put on hold pending the outcome of the request for reconsideration.
‘If we maintain refusal it will go to court,’ he said. ‘If the decision is to allow the third dwelling the Royal Court appeal will fall away.’ Mr Webster has therefore recommended that plans for a third home should be approved.
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So now even the Planning Department give in to blackmail and more of our green fields get covered in conrete.
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On behalf of us all Binets bluff ought to be called…let him go to court…
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Why when nearly all the locals want no more building would the planning department even consider it.
We need all the food production facilities we can get and the states should be acting to keep them.
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Having looked at detail at this unlike the above posters, there would appear to be a definite case for the development on this scale to happen, one only has to look at what has occurred nearby to set a precedent.
We are talking about three buildings and we have 100′s at around at St Saviour’s Hospital, Maufant, Clos du Roncier. Perhaps we could wind the clock back and all these NIMBYS could discuss the same issues, probably about their own houses.
Bring it on.
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Well it speaks for itself. Its not what you know its who you know and how much you are in the social scene to get what you want. Go for it. Let him take you all to court.
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Greedy
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4. Captain Fantastic – the fact is that this field could easily be returned to agriculture and shuold not have been granted planning permission for ANY houses – let alone 3! This particular grower appears to be able to build anything anywhere he wants to – one has to wonder how this is possible?
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