Campsite plan is ‘creeping development’
Tuesday 16th September 2008, 1:00PM BST.
The field overlooking Rocquaine which Tara de Jersey and D’Arcy Brimson want to turn into a summer campsite. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 0640943)
NEIGHBOURS are opposing plans to create a summer campsite at a vinery overlooking Fort Grey.
Landowners Tara de Jersey and D’Arcy Brimson want to put 12 tents in three fields from March to September each year. The site is accessed via a green lane from near the bottom of Route du Coudre.
They want to take down 40ft of greenhouse and build a block for washing and toilet facilities. One neighbour, John de Garis, said he feared that the plans could be a precursor to development and that the application sounded hollow.
‘We are confident that this will never get off the ground, but if it did, it could have disastrous significance. It’s a fantasy suggesting that everybody who uses it will use buses or bikes. They are already asking for eight parking spaces.’
Mr de Garis is one of several neighbours opposed to the plans.
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…..and just think of the noise and alcohol a camp site will attract. Not a good idea at all !!!
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sorry but i think its a great idea, we want to attract people to the island and st peters is lovely and pretty but a few narrow minds stop plans once again, Tara and D`arcy if i lived in a pretty part of the island, you`d be welcome to a campsite near me, my grandmother lived in le coudre before she died and im sure she`d have loved having visitors to the island nearby.
And blimey they are asking for EIGHT parking spaces how shocking!!!!!
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In response to John, I took the family camping this summer. We went to a nice costal site that was quiet and family friendly.
Can’t wait for this site to open as we can stay there when we visit relatives in Guernsey. I will look forward to all the noise and alcohol!!!
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do we live in the 21st century or not? get a grip on reality and smell the roses…we need things like this….more the better.
cant wait for all the old people with the “not in my lifetime” attitude to die off.
soylent green anyone?
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It seems the young people of this island have no respect left for their fast disappearing nature,and are distrubingly lacking in vision.
This sort of attitude is just paving the way for the last of our green land to be turned over to benefit nothing more than people’s leisure.
If change of use of this land is granted,one wonders how many speculative developers will use this ploy to carve up the last of our beautiful island,and turn it into profitable urban sprawl.I dread the thought of beachfront properties on Lihou Island in the distant future,connected by a suspension bridge.
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