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WORK on a project of road improvements in Trinity will begin on Tuesday, the government has confirmed, in spite of lingering dissatisfaction in the parish that has led to a further meeting being scheduled later in the week. Parishioners, who had already lobbied successfully for changes to the proposed scheme, used an ancient legal device […]

AN urgent parish assembly is being held next week to vote on changes to Trinity’s road network after disgruntled parishioners invoked an ancient legal device. The requête – which allows Islanders to demand that a parish assembly takes place – has been brought by a group of 23 home and business owners who say they […]

STATES Members have agreed to increase the minimum tax paid by new high-value residents by almost 50%. In the Assembly yesterday, politicians backed a proposal from Treasury Minister Ian Gorst to up the tax threshold from £170,000 to £250,000 annually. Deputy Gorst noted that this change would see Jersey’s tax take ‘increase considerably’, potentially by […]

THE Planning Committee has a busy agenda on Thursday for its first meeting of the new political term, with discussion points including whether two fields next to a school should become a ‘break-out space’ for pupils. States Members on the committee are also due to decide whether huge headlands of hazardous waste at La Collette […]

THE Progress Party has formally disbanded – a year after a disastrous night at the polls which left it with just one member in the States. In a catalogue of defeats during the 2022 election, the party saw its leader, Steve Pallet, voted out and two new candidates fail to win a seat. Only party […]

A WRONGLY raised Clameur de Haro has cost the parish of Trinity £70,000 in legal fees. The ancient injunction was brought by Nikki de Gruchy following a branchage dispute with the parish on Rue Becq, as the parishioner claimed the road had been illegally widened over the years and encroached on her land. But the […]

THE owners of the Portelet Bay Café have received planning permission to create two seasonal spaces at the end of a field for them to park their cars. On Thursday 28 September, the Planning Committee voted by five to one to go against the recommendation of the Planning Department, which had argued that allowing private […]

A CAMPSITE in St Ouen had one application unanimously rejected and another unanimously supported at a meeting of the Planning Committee yesterday. The Palms, off Route de Vinchelez, applied to change the use of a two-bedroom staff apartment – which it does not need – to residential. The application was opposed by the Planning Department […]

PLANS for a multimillion-pound development of the Waterfront – which would have included around 1,000 homes – have been thrown out by a panel of politicians set up to determine whether it should be approved. An application to develop a large area of reclaimed land – from Aquasplash to West Park – was submitted by […]