From Marcus Binney. TWENTY years ago I sat for a year on the Waterfront Advisory Group, listening and deliberating on plans, proposals and strategies for the waterfront. Despite a huge expenditure of time and effort, nothing came of it. Eight years ago hundreds of people spent a weekend at the Jersey College for Girls participating […]
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Care home approved
PLANS for a new St Peter residential home with specialist care in dementia and excessive alcohol-related memory loss have been approved. Barchester Healthcare Ltd, based in London, had their application to build a new care home next to Lakeside Residential Home, near the Airport at Rue de la Commune, approved by Environment Minister Freddie Cohen […]
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£1.5m fund to make your home greener
HOMEOWNERS will be able to apply for £1.5m worth of grants for insulation and energy improvements from February. And the grants could cover everything from low energy lightbulbs and better insulation, to ‘energy audits’ to show householders how they could save power and money off their bills. Environment Minister Freddie Cohen is consulting the Environment […]
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UK investigator to review Les Ormes
THE decision to approve an adventure centre at Les Ormes – which opens this weekend – will be the subject of an official report by a UK investigator.
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The real impact of GST
UNSURPRISINGLY, Treasury Minister Terry Le Sueur and the Jersey Democratic Alliance do not see eye to eye on the annual cost of the new goods and services tax for the average Island family.
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Chamber to rate ministers
MINISTERS are going to get graded ‘school reports’ from the Chamber of Commerce before the winter elections.
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5p for every plastic bag
ISLANDERS will have to pay 5p for every supermarket plastic bag they use from 6 May.
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Cohen under renewed fire over ‘bias’
TWO Senators have raised doubts over the Planning Minister’s ability to make an impartial decision on the Waterfront and have suggested that his position is now untenable. For the second time in a week, Senator Freddie Cohen has come under attack from two senior politicians over the £350m Esplanade Quarter development deal. In an open […]
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National Trust come out against flats at Portelet
THE National Trust for Jersey has criticised the decision to let developers build luxury flats on the Portelet headland.
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‘Not too late for plans to change’
THE results of the week-long public inquiry into the £350m financial district on the Waterfront could have an impact on the overall plans. After nearly 70 written submissions and evidence from more than a dozen witnesses, the inquiry finished yesterday. But yesterday Environment Minister Freddie Cohen said that it would not be too late for […]
