At a Senior Citizens’ Association meeting yesterday, the Senator told the 27-strong audience – which included Convent Court residents – that the 12-storey tower block will have to come down next year. Convent Court contains just over 70 flats in a mix of bedsits, and one-bedroom and two-bedroom units. The Housing Minister and his assistant Deputy Jackie Hilton were at yesterday’s meeting at St Thomas’s Church Hall, under the shadow of Convent Court, to talk to senior citizens about the plan to sell off 800 homes, mostly through a shared equity scheme, to refurbish the 18% of social housing that does not meet UK standards. But Senator Le Main told residents that the condition of Convent Court was of immediate concern.
Jersey Evening Post
