Senator Freddie Cohen spoke out after being urged to act to help farmers and growers get their hands on sites whose owners were hoping to sell them to developers for housing.
As reported in yesterday’s JEP, Assistant Economic Development Minister Len Norman said that growers were being starved of the land because Planning would not make a decision about the future of glasshouse sites.
However, Senator Cohen said that the issue was not peculiar to Jersey, as landowners behaved the same the world over. He said that they were entitled to hold onto their land and use it in a way that gave them the best return, adding that if that meant keeping it derelict until an opportunity arose, then so be it.
