The Planning applications panel, which decides some applications, has become increasingly frustrated with what they say is a lack of clarity in current government policy on the issue of disused glasshouses – which it describes as ‘blots on the landscape’.
And, after Environment Minister Rob Duhamel overturned a decision made by the panel in June to allow a farmer to demolish a number of derelict glasshouses in St Saviour and replace them with two homes and an orchard, they have now demanded a meeting with him.
They have also said they will not deal with any other similar applications until the issue has been resolved.
Full story in Friday’s JEP
