Court rejects appeal to build homes in Upper St Jacques

AN APPEAL against the Environment Department's refusal to allow a cul-de-sac to be built off Upper St Jacques was unanimously rejected by the Royal Court yesterday.

The appeal was made by guardians on behalf of George Harper. The proposal was for Greenways, a bungalow in Upper St Jacques, to be demolished to create access to the site on which three homes would have been built.

An application was originally made to develop the site in October 2007, but this was refused the following March.

In October 2008, the applicant asked for the matter to be reconsidered but permission was again denied in February last year and it was this which made the subject of the appeal.

Crown Advocate Philip Nicol-Gent said the Environment Department did not take issue with the design of the three three-bedroom homes, which the applicants wanted to put on the site, but questioned the effect that the development would have on the open space.

For Mr Harper, Advocate Patrick Palmer said his client did not consider the land in question to be an open space but a brown field site.

'In planning terms it is literally a garden and separated from the adjoining open space with clearly defined boundaries on each side of the property,' he said.

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