The Royal Court found that there were ‘serious irregularities and procedural errors’ over their handling of plans to redevelop the Zanzibar restaurant site in St Brelade’s Bay.
Dandara were told that they could not build a luxury seven-bedroom seaside home with a swimming pool on the site. However, the court has quashed that decision and the new Environment Minister, Rob Duhamel, will have to consider the plans afresh.
The court also ruled that the States should pay Dandara’s legal costs, which are expected to run in many thousands of pounds.
The judgment stated that Mr Cohen should not have met the developers privately on four occasions before the hearing at which the application was decided. And it said that he was wrong to refuse the plans for political, and not planning, reasons.
Mr Cohen said today that he had only ever met the developers in the presence of planning officers.
