Plémont: Back to square one

Tuesday 10th January 2012, 2:58PM GMT.

Trust president Celia Jeune at the site

PLANS for a major public inquiry into the development of one of Jersey’s most treasured beauty spots may be scuppered.

The architects have withdrawn and resubmitted the 2011 plans to build 28 homes on the site of the former holiday village at Plémont after a border dispute with Planning.

But the fact that the plans are new has ‘reset’ the whole Planning process.

That means that the previous decision by the then Environment Minister, Freddie Cohen, to submit the application to a public inquiry for review has lapsed, and the new minister, Deputy Rob Duhamel, will have to make a decision on whether to hold an inquiry.

The news follows a renewed appeal by the National Trust for Jersey for public donations towards their campaign to acquire the site to preserve it for future generations.

Trust president Celia Jeune said that they wanted help to buy the site to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

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the thin wallet

January 10, 2012 at 4:46 pm

i hope the inquiry is scuppered,the public see enough taxpayers money wasted.

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Pip Clement

January 10, 2012 at 5:05 pm

Those delightful little games that the developers play with Planning!

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Pip Clement

January 10, 2012 at 11:47 pm

Why not say it?
The present owner may sell the site on and the current architect’s plans may not be used after planning permission is granted.
More houses could grow and the restrictions could vanish.
There are sites around the island where one house existed; it was knocked down on the basis that two houses would be built and finally four houses have sprouted!
Go figure!

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Parry

January 11, 2012 at 7:09 am

Just get on….demolish and build

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R Williams

January 14, 2012 at 7:21 pm

For once, I’m with the National Trust on this one.

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Better spent elsewhere

January 15, 2012 at 10:15 pm

Pie in the sky, the Trust sticks it’s nose into too much and meddles in things it should leave alone like objecting to every planning application in the green zone. Why bang on about this when there is no realistic hope of buying it, and let’s face it it’s not the most beautiful spot in the Island, just scrub and gorse! They should concentrate on getting the properties they have already in good order before chasing the headline grabbing same old tat of a story. How about having Les Cotils Farm and Morrel farm habitable and used by some genuine small holder agriculturalists for the Queens Jubilee, that would be more like it. But no they will come up with some hair-brained scheme for these properties that will cheese off many to benefit the rich few. Build on it and let’s not waste any more money. The Trust to me is not what it seems!

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