Stan Brouard set to grow as planning fight ‘is all but over’

Friday 3rd July 2009, 2:29PM BST.

Rodney Brouard A DECADE-LONG battle to expand a local business will soon be won, according to Stan Brouard Ltd’s managing director.

After fighting since 1998, enduring many setbacks, taking the States to court and threatening to leave the island, Rodney Brouard (pictured) said yesterday: ‘I am convinced we will get it now, at last.’

He has separated a planning request to expand the company’s garden and leisure-goods centre into four separate applications.

‘We split it up so if they find one problem, they won’t end up turning the whole lot down.

‘I don’t know if it’s the record, but it has been a very long time,’ he said. ‘I don’t give up.’

The four-part application includes a building for the postal flower part of the business and a plant to mass-produce a product Mr Brouard believes will launch the company forward.

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Roy

July 4, 2009 at 12:20 pm

This application seeks to construct an ugly industrial building on a perfectly delightful and effective agricultural field when there are numerous more appropriate industrial sites to be found elsewhere.
Our planners (both professional and political) have consistently attempted to protect Guernsey’s limited amount of open countryside, in this case fighting a well funded and professionally targeted campaign aimed at States members.
Permission to build on this field would prove that developers can buy their way around a law designed to protect the common good.
What a shame.

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Ted

July 6, 2009 at 2:48 am

It is particularly distressing that this campaign to destroy another little piece of Guernsey for the sake of profit is being vigorously promoted by one bearing the name of an old and respected Guernsey family. It’s not just incomers and foreigners who are hellbent on destroying our island in pursuit of personal advantage.

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