Jan 31, 2021 A CENTURIES-OLD legal device could be used to block the sale of parish land as a battle between Westmount residents and government threatens to escalate over proposals for the new hospital. Picture: James Jeune [The Friends of Our New Hospital symbolically show the potential impact on the road by putting red ribbons on trees] (30123022) Advocate Olaf Blakeley said he had been requisitioned and instructed by ‘several home owners’ who wished to fight both the site selection of the hospital and its proposed access route to lodge a requête with the Parish of St Helier. The requête, which would be voted upon by parishioners, includes the demand that ‘the parish should not allow any further interference with the land or any part of it by the ministers responsible for the new hospital project or by their agents, contractors or advisers’ until the parish has been able to consider ‘sufficient detail’ of what the land acquisition would involve.