GUERNSEY’S Treasury minister will continue to support plans to redevelop Maison Maritaine and Longue Rue House despite the submission of a motion to delay debate because of concerns over funding.

Treasury lent its support to the Housing Department proposals in a letter included in the original report. It said the importance of developing of extra-care housing was so overwhelming that work should start before all the arrangements for future funding were worked out.

Deputy Charles Parkinson (pictured) said the department ideally would have liked the Older People’s Strategy and funding issues to be finalised first but recognised, in this case, that they could not wait.

‘We have said we are happy to sign up to the use of the corporate housing programme to rebuild these two homes while the development of a strategic funding model is developed alongside that,’ he said yesterday.

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