The group, who have been working on the scheme for a number of years, hope to build a complex of three-bedroom homes in a green-zone field in Grande Route de Faldouet, east of St Martin’s Church.
The land was earmarked for affordable housing in 2014 when revisions were made to the Island Plan – the document that sets planning policy in Jersey.
St Martin Constable Michel Le Troquer said: ‘All the way through we’ve said that this was going to be a shared-equity scheme, so that the housing association would retain some of the value of the units.’
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