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VISITING hospitality staff can now be housed in a former St Saviour hotel, which is currently being used as accommodation for agricultural workers. Permission has been granted to alter a planning permit for the Hotel L’Emeraude, to allow it to house hospitality workers for the next three years, after which it would have to be […]

THE government’s common population policy has been backed by the States. It aims to achieve a stable and sustainable population ‘for future generations’ and reduce reliance on net inward migration, setting out an initial ministerial vision for this. Assistant Chief Minister Rowland Huelin, who lodged the policy in December, called population a ‘meaty problem’ during […]

EXPANSION of La Gigoulande Quarry has been overwhelmingly rejected by States Members, following a successful amendment to the Bridging Island Plan. Environment Minister John Young’s proposal to expand the site into adjacent field MY966 was set out in the original draft document last year. The quarry is situated at the top of St Peter’s Valley […]

TEMPORARY homes – such as portable cabins – for up to 500 workers could be built at sites in St Helier, St John and St Saviour in an effort to ease the Island’s growing housing and staffing crises, if proposals are passed by the States. Deputy Rowland Huelin, who is responsible for population policy, has […]

THE former Education Minister has been reappointed as an assistant minister.

THE government has been asked to set a date for the States to debate a population policy later this year.