Planning news


New States to have chance to liberalise planning law further

NEWLY-ELECTED deputies will have the chance later this year to relax the planning law further, the Environment Department has said.


Complex use-class system restricting business, says agent

BUSINESSES are being put off moving into local warehouses due to the complicated use-class system, estate agent Nick Renny has said.


‘What could be more rural than fencing to keep in my animals?’

HORSE owner Jan Coomer is angry that planners have told her she has to take down a gate and fence in a field because the development is not ‘rural enough’.


Revealed: tiny size of proposed new cinema

COMPROP’S planning application for its proposed Admiral Park development contains a cinema with just 232 seats, it has emerged.


Planners’ ruling made no safety sense – tribunal

A VALE property can keep its two entrances, after a planning tribunal overturned the Environment Department’s decision.


Vazon Cafe regulars are happy with cabins

VAZON Bay Cafe’s temporary cabins have not diminished the quality of service there, regular customers have said.


Hotel owners face £5k bill to lower decking by a few inches

OWNERS of the Atlantique Hotel have to spend up to £5,000 on lowering its decking by ‘a few inches’ after a planning tribunal rejected their appeal.


GSPCA among objectors to Queen’s Road ‘castle’ plans

QUEEN’S ROAD residents fear plans for rebuilding a bungalow in the area would restrict their exquisite views of the islands because of its ‘castle-like’ size.


Plans for brewery site ‘an assault on the seafront’

PLANS for a multi-million-pound development of the former Guernsey Brewery site are an assault on the seafront, a campaigner against the application has said.


Appeal allows three houses to be built

AN ISLANDER’S 25-year dream of converting her stables into homes has been given new life after a planning tribunal overturned a decision to refuse the application.

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