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WQ.22/2022
WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT BY DEPUTY I. GARDINER OF ST. HELIER
QUESTION SUBMITTED ON MONDAY 24th JANUARY 2022 ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON MONDAY 31st JANUARY 2022
Question
"Will the Minister advise how the public interest test (as identified within the Bridging Island Plan) will be applied in relation to the Our Hospital project planning application; and will he further advise how this will be assessed?"
Answer
All planning applications are assessed and determined in the public interest on the basis that they are required to be assessed against the Island Plan which is deemed, by law, to be a development plan that provides for the orderly, comprehensive and sustainable development of land in a manner that best serves the interests of the community' (emphasis added).
The Island Plan provides a policy framework that enables the Our Hospital project planning application to be assessed. In so doing, the plan needs to be considered as a whole, and where Island Plan policies are relevant to the determination of a planning application they, together with any other material considerations, must be taken into account. This is clearly stated in the preamble to Policy CI3 – Our Hospital and associated sites and infrastructure in the Draft Bridging Island Plan: The development of the Our Hospital site should be guided by the Minister for the Environment's published supplementary planning guidance, and all other relevant policies of the Island Plan and any other material considerations.' (p.230, Draft Bridging Island Plan).
In the event that the Our Hospital project planning application is determined under the new Island Plan - subject to it and its constituent policies being amended and approved by the States Assembly - there is a specific policy for the Our Hospital proposal.
As stated above, the proposal would fall to be assessed against this and any other relevant planning policies.