Developers must start consultation again
A CONTROVERSIAL planning application for homes in St Martin's will have to restart its consultation period again, after the developers reportedly failed to display the site notices correctly.
The company behind the plans say that signs were displayed, but vandalised.
A planning application was submitted by Island Development Ltd to build 14 dwellings and 12 flats, with a new access road to a site called Les Blanches, which is currently made up of several fields behind Manor Stores.
The three-week consultation period during which islanders can give their feedback to planners before a decision is made, was due to finish next Tuesday, but a planning spokesman said that would now not be the case.
'The Planning Service has responded to concerns expressed by members of the public that site notices had not been displayed and concerning the manner in which documents referred to in the application had been submitted in a piecemeal fashion,' he said.
'As a result, the Planning Service has contacted the applicants' agent and has required that the advertisement period for the application must begin again, with new site notices to be erected by the applicant and the full package of submitted information now available for public inspection at Sir Charles Frossard House.'
