Cobo car park row has impact on hotels
Friday 31st July 2009, 2:29PM BST.
Rockmount manager Jonathan Jackson in its car park. He is becoming increasingly concerned at non-patrons using it because of the problems with Cobo car park. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 0811620)
THE Cobo car park dispute is damaging trade at the Rockmount Hotel.
Non-patrons using its car park are forcing potential customers to go elsewhere.
Hotel managers are considering making Rockmount car park and that of its sister hotel, the Cobo Bay, terre a l’amende, but said that that would be done only as a last resort.
‘There’s a saying around here that when the sun shines, the bars are empty, but the car park is full as the people are on the beach,’ said Rockmount manager, Jonathan Jackson.
‘But we have noticed this year, from about March, that people are using our car park rather than the one next to Checkers.’
Nearly 50 vehicles were parked on the hotel premises at about noon on a fine day this week, but the bars were almost empty.
Mr Jackson said sometimes he took the numbers of the vehicles parked outside and, after checking with customers, he found between 10 and 15 cars were nothing to do with the hotels.
‘We don’t have a problem with customers who leave their cars here overnight and collect them the next day,’ said Mr Jackson.
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This may sound a bit to simplistic but why cant the police check the chassis numbers on the abandoned cars to trace the owners.
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Have you not read any of the yards of print on this subject ?
The land is PRIVATE LAND
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The trouble is no one has actually proved that it is private land have they? A ‘title’ was purchased and the owner assumed the land went with it but lawyers are looking into this.
I think the abandoned cars are dangerous to members of the public – sharp metal edges jutting out and also environmentally they are a disgrace. If they were parked in town they would be towed away very quickly. I agree with blogger: why can’t the cars’ owners be chased and made to dispose of them?
Cobo is looking such a derelict mess it is a shame. Where has all the common decency gone in people – we are being taken over by greedy businessmen who think only of profit and nothing of the true Guernsey way of life.
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A recent case in the UK showed that a title purchased at auction did not give the purchaser any other right that to enjoy the use of the title alone. No historic land grants or any other by royal accent or appointments grants on things such as markets or levies, use of land, could be part of the title purchase. These other benifits could only transferred via inherited titles.
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Hi Roger Wings dahhhhhhhling!
A recent case in the UK confirmed that small amounts of ‘soft’ drugs such as heroin, cocaine and jenkem are a waste of police time to prosecute and should only result in a caution.
What does that mean in Guernsey I here you say?
Surely Mrs P Jnr. is yumming her way through a big bag O’Brown right now?
No, UK law – especially case law means nothing over here. Shame, I was quite looking forward to chasing a dragon around my drawing room this evening.
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