‘Don’t blame the planners, it is the whole set-up’

Friday 25th April 2008, 2:29PM BST.

POLITICAL pettiness and a lack of communication between key departments are responsible for Guernsey’s inadequate planning system, a report has found.

Consultant Chris Shepley’s review of the planning service recommends that government attitudes and mechanisms change now and planning gets its own minister.

‘While there are clearly important problems of process and resources to be addressed within the planning division, many of the issues raised go beyond into the way the States as a whole organises and approaches its operations,’ he said.