Sale of Les Quennevais fields for new school confirmed

The contract was passed in the Royal Court last week meaning the project will go ahead as planned.

Negotiations on the sale of the land on Rue Carrée – owned by a Mr and Mrs Carrel – stalled prompting Education Minister Tracey Vallois to give notice that the States would be using compulsory purchase laws

Viberts Advocate James Lawrence, who represented the Carrels, said the process had been ‘difficult’ with the States constantly ‘moving goalposts’ and ‘changing offers’.

He added that the final sum of £409,000 had been less that expected.