States offer lifeline to six discounted-homes families
Monday 26th September 2011, 2:59PM BST.
The homes at Uplands Drive
SIX families whose hopes of moving into discounted homes were dashed last week have been thrown a lifeline.
Assistant Treasury Minister Eddie Noel says that he is working to find a solution and says there is ‘tremendous political support’ to get the families into the houses at Uplands on New St John’s Road.
They were told last week that they had lost out on the homes they had been offered through the discount ‘Homebuy’ scheme, after Environment Minister Rob Duhamel redesignated them as first-time buyer units.
He said he had no choice, and that States’ lawyers told him there was no legal way to continue with the Homebuy policy, under which families who meet set criteria can buy discount homes through the States on condition that they pay back the discount when they sell the houses.
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He said he had no choice, and that States’ lawyers told him there was no legal way to continue with the Homebuy policy,
So this obviously means that all other homes sold on this scheme called Homebuy Policy are also illegal?
Davey West.
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Media coverage + election year = U-turn, scrabble & buck ducking. Good luck to these families & perhaps those “appalled” politicians would like to manifesto something for all those who want house prices to come back to reality.
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Thrown a lifeline they should be compensated
for the stress and turmoil suffered.
For all the prosperity and growth of business
the Jersey people have had no benefit.
Infact the reverse they are treated very badly
by the very people who are supposed to be
representing them.
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pass the parcel of blame is the game on Jersey
Jersey people have had no benefit from the
prosperity of the island ,
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So do we assume the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing or is there more to this as no one has yet explained how the Le provedence affair works…..????
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