Development Planning Authority News Today

PROPERTY developers have been challenged to speed up house-building after winning their battle against planning policy GP11.

SUSPENDING planning policy GP11 is not a ‘fix-all’ solution, but a step in the right direction, according to local developers.

Twenty years of house-building data – newly presented by a deputy – has called into question claims that private house-building has been wrecked by the introduction of GP11.

Ahead of a States debate this week on the controversial GP11 planning policy, Matt Fallaize is joined by three members of the Development & Planning Authority — president Victoria Oliver, vice-president Andy Taylor and John Dyke, who is leading a move to have it scrapped — to discuss the issues around affordable housing and whether house building has been stifled since its introduction.

Civil servants have been accused of blocking deputies’ efforts to speed up the development of new housing.

A CONTROVERSIAL affordable housing policy, which has been accused of stifling house building in the island, could be effectively scrapped for five years, by an amendment from two committee presidents.

States planning officers have admitted that they are failing to meet their own targets for deciding applications in a timely manner.

The president of the Development & Planning Authority has admitted that she asked her committee to get involved in a planning dispute involving her brother’s business.

Vale parish officials have urged the States to drive the Leale’s Yard development project forward.

THE former St Martin’s Hotel site could be used to fill the gap in key worker housing provision, in the wake of plans for Le Bordage Seath being scrapped.