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OPEN LETTER: Planning approval needed for St. Ouen bollards

OPEN LETTER: Planning approval needed for St. Ouen bollards

Monday 21 February 2022

OPEN LETTER: Planning approval needed for St. Ouen bollards

Monday 21 February 2022


The National Trust for Jersey has penned an open letter to the Infrastructure Minister arguing that his £15,000 plan to install bollards along part of the Five Mile Road should have to go through the planning process.

The money will be spent on formalising parking arrangements with kerbs and bollards after complaints about sun-seeking illegal parkers springing up with each heatwave.

Deputy Kevin Lewis signed off on the decision on 4 February without planning permission - something the National Trust disagrees with.

Click below to read their letter in full...

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Pictured top: The letter, and some of the parking that led to the complaints that sparked the planned new parking measures.

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