Last year, the Royal Court ruled that the Bellozanne Covenant, established in 1952, was spent.
However, St Helier Constable Simon Crowcroft challenged the ruling, as he believes that the States ‘shouldn’t be able to break their promises’.
The disputed arrangement was put in place several decades ago when St Helier sold land at Bellozanne at a reduced price to the States to enable the building of the former incinerator.
As part of the contract a covenant was added which stated that St Helier parish residents would no longer be charged for waste disposal.
It meant that plans for an Islandwide user-pays charge on commercial waste lodged two years ago by the Infrastructure Department had to be postponed, as the scheme was deemed unworkable while one parish was still exempt from charges.
The covenant was effectively lifted when the Royal Court ruled in favour of the department last year, but the parish then lodged an appeal.
