North v south battle over land
Wednesday 29th September 2010, 1:00PM BST.
Dean of St Peter’s douzaine Martin Ozanne is against development of the island’s villages, believing it should be kept to urban areas. (Picture by Ella Botzenhardt, 1033795)
COUNTRYSIDE in the south must be protected from development at all costs – but people in the north deserve as much green land as those in the upper parishes.
Those are the contrasting stances of parish officials living at opposite ends of the island.
And they look set to reflect the polarised views expected at a States debate this week into Guernsey’s future planning and development needs.
Deputies will get the chance to help guide the Policy Council’s Strategic Land Use Planning Group by signalling which of three proposed options they prefer.
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If democracy is alive and well, surely there would be equal development in the south as in the north.
If those in the south don’t wish development there, they should call for a cease of development island wide.
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North – “Not in my back yard!”
South – “Not in my back yard!”
North / South – “Lets build another island… lets say near town, and call it Little Venice and put shops and houses on it”
Everyone – “That’s a stupid idea, just reduce immigration, renovate and innovate building across a spread of the island and make the process efficient and off sight from roads.”
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Build high rise apartments (15 – 20 storeys) with East Coast views behind the existing properties along Les Banques where practicable
For sale to private individuals only to avoid as much as possible the graffiti and damage caused in some UK Council high rise buildings
80 ? apartments in the footprint of 4 – 6 bungalows
Put my name down for the top floor facing Herm with a big discount for a brilliant idea
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RAY….re ‘hi-rise’ apartments, selling only to individuals, 80 apartments in one block…..?
Your non-starter ideas will go down in history as the most crass, most destructive, most appallingly irresponsible suggestions in this fair islands history. If the above is what you want, move to Hong Kong, New York, Vancouver et al….
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what a typical priviledged nimby martin ozanne is, presumably living well off in the big open green space of the country. i challenge him to live in a rabbit hutch new-build of the north where so many of the island people try to better themselves. i used to think the green bits were sacred but no longer. if guernsey sees fit to increase population and housing the villages and country now have to take responsibility or risk increasing resentment and division.
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EXpat80
There’s probably only room for perhaps three or four such blocks behind the present buildings at Les Banques so it would hardly resemble Hong Kong
As for Vancouver I think it’s a beautiful city but I’d be content with a high rise view of Herm
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I went to the North of the island once. A friend of mine from St Martins had the tyres of his Aston Martin slashed so I went and picked him up from the Bridge in my massive Land Rover Discovery Sport.
As I dodged the bricks being thrown at me by the feral dead-eyed youths that inhabit the land past Salerie Corner, it struck me that the North reminds me of Cormac McCarthy’s laugh a minute post apocalyptic novel ‘The Road’ (now a hit motion picture’.
Never going there again.
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Samuel
Your friend must have ignored the warning sign in Pitronnerie Road which clearly states ‘Exhausts fitted free. Tyres slashed’
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Too many people, too small an Island. Read the Guernsey Tomorrow document; pretty much spells out what people want and don’t want.
Good piece of public engagement but seemingly ignored?
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