New Island Plan approved

Thursday 30th June 2011, 2:58PM BST.

Over 100 flats will be built on the Metropole Hotel site in Roseville Street

MAJOR plans including more than 4,000 new homes and a new national coastal park have been overwhelmingly approved by the States.

After almost 40 hours of debate, Members approved the Island Plan 2011, which sets out Planning and zoning policy in Jersey for the next ten years.

The plan will see more homes in town instead of wholesale rezoning of countryside sites and introduces a controversial new formula for demanding discount and social housing from developers.

Over the course of the plan over 1,000 homes will be built on the following sites: Esplanade Quarter, the Waterfront, the Metropole Hotel, Ann Court, Wesley Chapel, the former Jersey College for Girls and Westmount Quarry. A number of other sites are still to be identified.

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johnvilliers

July 1, 2011 at 11:43 am

AT LAST!
About time town was revamped and the countryside was kept as countryside.
Town has so many old and tired building. It will be far more benefical to revamp these than take away our fields and countryside. This has to be kept for future generations to enjoy.

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Overpopulated

July 2, 2011 at 2:09 pm

There are many large attractive houses in St Helier that have been converted into ugly flats.

Houses like this sell for £millions in London, the States need to regenerate town and allow these once elegant houses to return to their past attractivness.

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