The A4 notices are the size of a page in a magazine and have been going up around the Island to notify people of planning applications since a change in the law in July.
But from the start of this month they have had to be A3 – the size of a page in the JEP.
Planning Minister Freddie Cohen said: ‘In response to a suggestion from Deputy Gerard Baudains and Deputy Ben Fox I have instructed that site notices be increased in size from A4 to A3.
It is essential that site notices are clearly visible as they provide a vital new function by highlighting planning issues in a local area.’ Until the new Planning Law came into force this summer there was no need for applicants to advertise their plans on site, although they would be published in the Jersey Evening Post.
However, for three months now, applicants have been given the notices by planning and been required to display them on site for three weeks.
Assistant planning director Peter Le Gresley said that the notices appeared to be making Islanders more aware of applications.
He said: ‘Following the introduction of site notices in July this year the department is constantly revising its procedures, and, having received comments from the public that they are too small and too difficult to read, have responded with a larger A3 size notice and will continue to monitor their performance.’
