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Builders' waste will be piled high at Longue Hougue on a temporary basis after States members backed the proposal.
The issue was taken to the Assembly after politicians on the Development & Planning Authority went against the advice of their senior staff and in July rejected a planning application by the States Trading and Supervisory Board for the stockpile.
Space for this material is already nearly full and there has been little progress on deciding where the next permanent disposal site should be.
In the end 30 deputies supported STSB’s plan, with the stockpile likely to reach a maximum height roughly level with Mont Crevel tower, 16m above Guernsey ground datum and nine metres above the surface, graded up in increments, and cover a total area of 18,885m2.
The original project envisaged the waste would start being removed after three years, with another three years after that to clear it entirely.
“What I’m worried about is not politics, it’s the economy, the impact on Guernsey if we don't do this,” said STSB President Peter Roffey as he summed up the debate.
Pictured: How they voted on allowing inert waste to be stockpiled at Longue Hougue.
He stressed that it was not down to his committee and the DPA to “find a better place” as some deputies had now suggested, because the Assembly had already approved the intention to use Longue Hougue for the stockpile.
With some calls to use Les Vardes instead, he stressed that not only did he believe it was needed for water storage and should be as large as possible for that, but there would be a significant amount of time needed for licencing and planning.
E&I is coming back with a report on the future of Les Vardes by the end of this year.
Other suggestions included raising the level of the whole of Longue Hougue.
Deputy Roffey again stressed the amount of time that would be needed to get that approved with it likely to require an Environmental Impact Assessment.
“It’s a massive change to our whole topography”.
No-one voted against a proposition to direct the DPA to approve the scheme, with four of the five members of DPA abstaining, Deputies Victoria Oliver, Chris Blin, John Dyke and Sasha Kazantseva-Miller.
The other member, Deputy Andrew Taylor who had voted in favour at the open planning meeting, backed the proposition.
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