About the consultation
Area-based heritage protection is an international standard for protecting special places and an established feature of the legal framework in other places including England, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man and Guernsey. Conservation areas are places of special architectural or historic interest where they are deserving of careful management to protect and improve their character.
It has been a longstanding objective of the States to introduce conservation areas in Jersey. There is now an opportunity to allow this to happen by making changes to the island’s planning law to allow their future designation.
To ensure this is done in an open, transparent way we also need to:
A framework has been written setting out how these issues could be addressed. This gives more information about the proposals to bring conservation areas into Jersey and suggests how they may operate.
The Minister for the Environment would like to hear what people think about conservation areas and the proposals in the framework to help shape our future proposals.
Your views are welcomed and will be carefully considered in bringing forward the detailed proposals to allow conservation areas to be designated in Jersey. The consultation is open until Friday 08 April 2022.
Comments are welcome in multiple ways. You can submit your comments in the following ways:
Please do not include personal information (which includes yours or others name, address, phone numbers etc.) in your comments.
In response to all comments received, a post-consultation report will be published in April. To view the report, visit gov.je/consultations.
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