Kiosk row is sparked by rivals’ complaints
Friday 8th August 2008, 1:00PM BST.
(Picture by Adrian Miller, 0612475)
THREATS to bulldoze Pembroke Bay slipway kiosk stem from a trade dispute, it emerged yesterday.
Treasury minister Charles Parkinson said his department had run out of patience with owners Gary and Lynn de Carteret for refusing to sign a lease which would have bought them in line with other operators.
The de Carterets had been cherry picking, he said, by opening their kiosk only in August.
‘We get letters of complaint from other kiosk owners who are honouring their leases and staying open in the shoulder months and providing the service to beach users which we require them to do,’ said Deputy Parkinson.
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I would be intrigued to know why a complaint from a competitor has raised the hackles of the Law Officers so much. Is the competing business owned, or party owned, by anyone in the States, or working for the States?
Just an innocent question…hopefully there is a negative answer.
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Seems odd that the Treasury is fed up with the de Caterets but according to the Press the Treasury still accepts money from them as ground rent(?)
Something fishy going on me thinks.
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Surely this could have been resolved by getting the interested parties to meet around a table?
A letter as frank and as anonymous as the owners received was surely going to be badly taken.
Obviously we don’t the back story, but it seems that another incompetent handling on a minor affair has hit the headlines.
The threat of bulldozers sounds grimly reminiscent of immoral regimes.
Why flatten it, if they have ire with the way the leaseholders are treating their lease; get someone else in?
I’m with Vic. The truth is out there.
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