THREE luxury houses worth millions at Dandara’s new Portelet Bay development have been sold while still in the planning stage.
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‘Bin this stupid idea’
A POLITICIAN wants to stop approved plans to change a shelter at St Brelade’s Bay into a bin store. St Brelade Deputy Sean Power is annoyed that a shelter, popular with tourists and locals alike when walking along the promenade, is due to be turned into a bin store for the Oyster Box restaurant. Environment […]
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The minister is naive if he thinks gagging is justified
AS The Reader may have already learned, I actually have a bit of time for Ian Le Marquand.
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Seven sites proposed for housing
SEVEN sites are being put forward for rezoning because the built-up area will not be able to supply Jersey’s housing demands over the next ten years.
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Opposition to plans for fencing at skate park
SKATEBOARDERS are fighting plans to extend fencing around the new skate park at the Harbour. The Channel Islands Skateboarding Association say that the plans will cut emergency and disabled access to the park and remove needed public parking spaces. But Harbours, who are behind the plans, say that they have been told to put up […]
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£2,000 fine for pickingrare wild flowers and grasses
IF you go down to the woods today you had better not pick any wild plants – because if they are very rare you could be fined up to £2,000. The Island’s 66 rarest wildflowers and grasses, not only in woodland areas but around the coast and in other habitats, which need protection, are now […]
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Save our wetlands
THE Island’s wetlands, which are an important habitat for endangered species, have declined dramatically over the past 200 years and particularly during the last 70 years. A National Trust for Jersey map-based study estimates that 64 per cent of the main land-based wetland habitats have been lost since 1795, when there were 1,668 vergées compared […]
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Shoreline is under threat
From David Cabeldu, for the committee of Save Our Shoreline. SAVE Our Shoreline has this week written to Planning in respect of an application by WEB for consent to build 59 luxury flats with basement car parking on the Waterfront, close to the Radisson Hotel. The project was reported by the JEP last week and […]
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Minister supports shellfish unit plans
PLANS to build a £1.5-million shellfish processing unit in the countryside have been given support by Environment Minister Freddie Cohen. Jersey Oyster Company owners Steve Luce and Chris Le Masurier, whose oyster beds are in Grouville Bay, have been trying to gain permission for new premises near La Rocque Chapel for the last 18 months. […]
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Bridge to France: Study next year?
A SERIOUS investigation into the feasibility of building a 1.5 billion euro bridge or tunnel link to France could take place next year. This week Environment Minister Freddie Cohen met international engineer Peter Lundhus, whose company Partner Sund Baelt managed the construction of a road and rail bridge that links Danish capital Copenhagen with Swedish […]
