Pat Costen and Charles David of La Societe Guernesiaise in one of the fields Education is proposing to use for the redevelopment of Les Beaucamps High. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 0673984)

PLANS to redevelop Les Beaucamps High School on protected rural land have sparked a protest from an environmental group.

La Societe Guernesiaise has written to the Guernsey Press to bring the issue to public attention and the Men of the Trees and the National Trust of Guernsey say they share the concerns and will be investigating.

La Societe president Pat Costen said the Education Department’s proposal to build on three fields along St George’s Road rather than on the school’s original site would be environmentally destructive.

‘The intention of building the school is to invest in the youth. But by building it here, they will grow up in a Guernsey without the sort of land we grew up with and appreciate – the Guernsey they were born into,’ she said.

The move was also unnecessary and against the advice of consultant the Cooper Partnership, she added.