They claim that they were reassured at a Planning meeting that the trees at the Channel Television site would not be cut down but developer Alpine Contracts received permission from Planning to fell the trees at a later stage.
However, residents say they were not consulted about this and one resident, John Veal, said he was shocked to find five trees gone when he returned home last night.
Neither developer Geoffrey Noel, nor Planning assistant director Peter Le Gresley were unavailable for comment this morning.
• Read the full report in Wednesday’s Jersey Evening Post
