Deputy Roy Le Hérissier was summarising the findings of a report, which was presented to the States this month, calling for the minister to be removed from determining planning applications bar in ‘exceptional’ circumstances.
Instead, the planning applications panel, a group of seven backbenchers, should be the main body that determines planning applications in Jersey, the report says. It also says that he should be barred from making planning decisions if he has been lobbied by architects or developers about the application in question.
The report sets out a code of conduct for the minister to make the planning process more transparent.
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