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ST Peter residents narrowly voted in favour of continuing to pursue a controversial affordable-housing scheme in their parish on Thursday night.

JERSEY must now push forward for medicinal cannabis to be prescribed to Islanders who need it, a States Deputy has said following the recent granting of licences for cultivation.

PARISHIONERS of St Peter are to be asked their views on how plans for affordable housing should be taken forward.

AN average of two complaints have been made to Environmental Health every week for the past ten months by neighbours concerned about work to create a new hospital catering facility in St Peter, new figures show.

TWO former political representatives of St Peter have hit back at the current parish Deputy after he claimed plans they backed for a 65-unit affordable-housing scheme were a ‘Pandora’s box’.

PROPOSALS for 65 affordable homes in St Peter have been described by the parish Deputy as a ‘Pandora’s box’ which ‘breach everything’ in terms of planning regulations.

A SCHEME to demolish an empty office block behind West’s Centre and build 37 flats has been rejected by the Planning Committee because it does not include parking spaces.

SMACKING children is to be outlawed in Jersey after States Members overwhelmingly supported proposals to repeal an article within the Children’s Law that allows parents to use ‘reasonable corporal punishment’.

THE management of the States billion-pound property portfolio has been ‘unacceptable’ and ‘haphazard’, with the current backlog of maintenance likely to cost taxpayers around £20 million, according to a spending watchdog.