economy, the need for additional immigrants could be significantly reduced.


If the opportunity is grasped, this is a win, win, for Jersey. There is still a strong demand for rental accommodation and the question inevitably arises about where the necessary additional properties should be built. Here too, we should start with Government. There are far too many Government owned sites which have lain fallow for years, and this is a disgrace. Government should turn over the ownership and responsibility for the sites in their ownership to Andium. That would ensure they are developed and used for this essential purpose with the minimum of delay and at a lower cost.


But it’s not only Government owned sites that need to urgently be released for housing. Other sites in St Helier, along with brown-field sites, have to be given planning consent with the minimum of bureaucracy, red tape or delay. Only then can this problem be resolved within an


acceptable time frame. The new Island Plan will be critical, and it is to be hoped that it will be produced on time and will create the essential urgency and environment for success.


An opportunity also exists for additional units to be created from office space, a significant amount of which is now surplus to requirements, either because newer and more modern facilities have been created or because, in the wake of the pandemic, more and more staff are working from home.


A further solution exists, should the government choose to review an outdated policy, in the development of redundant glasshouses into housing. The policy to retain glasshouses was appropriate thirty years ago, but in the 21st century, there is a far more productive use for these abandoned sites, many of which have fallen into disrepair over the years and become ragged eyesores. Here too, we need a far-sighted and ambitious Island Plan.


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