Dec 10, 2020
FOREIGN investors should be banned from purchasing buy-to-let homes within the proposed new Waterfront development and adequate social housing should be included in any future plans, the former Housing Minister has said.
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Senator Sam Mezéc has lodged a States proposition after the Jersey Development Company announced in the summer that a 12-year scheme to ‘transform’ the Waterfront would take place, with hopes to submit an outline planning application by the spring of next year.
And the Senator, who stepped down as Housing Minister last month to back a motion of no confidence in the Chief Minister, Senator John Le Fondré, wants to make certain the development does not become dominated with buy-to-let homes.