First open meeting to test ‘yes’ to Coupee Lane flats
Saturday 26th March 2011, 2:30PM GMT.
The first open planning meeting will discuss plans to build flats at Coupee Lane, off Cornet Street. (0973928)
PLANNERS have given their backing to a controversial proposal to build a four-storey block of flats at Coupee Lane, St Peter Port.
But whether the Environment Department board agrees with them will be revealed on Tuesday when the application is discussed at the first planning meeting open to the public.
The agenda for the meeting has revealed the development, which includes 10 flats and 16 parking spaces, was being recommended for approval. It outlined the concerns some residents have about the scheme.
* The open meeting will start at 9am on Tuesday in Beau Sejour’s Cambridge and Delancey rooms and is expected to last an hour.
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So a bloke can’t have a shed to keep his mower in, yet they allow a four-storey block of flats.
What idiotic people there are in Environment/Planning
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There was a lot of fuss on this forum in, if I remember correctly, the summer of 2009 over whether Jack Honeybill was involved with this site while he was a member of Environment
Earlier this year he dismissed an opportunity to answer a Press letter on the subject as ‘not worthy of a reply’ which might be taken by some as a ‘Yes’
If he ever was involved,or if he is still involved,I presume he will take no part in any planning decisions
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Planning is a joke! These plans are fundamentally no different to the ones previously rejected. So what has changed?
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You said it all, Mr. G
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Mr G
You are missing the point here – the proposed flats are not in the corner of a green field, with agricultural zoning
Having said that, four storeys is far two high, two would be about right.
However, the more flats you can squeeze in, the bigger the profit for the develpoer
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Bryn, nothing has changed. Common sense will only prevail, when there is some.
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Surely Mr Honeybill wouldn’t evade questions on this topic, not in these days of open and transparent Government?
Let’s face it though, it probably wouldn’t matter how involved he was, the Code of (Mis)Conduct panel wouldn’t be able to find anything wrong with his actions.
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Yes it does appear the planners once again will back big buisines/companies but will refuse permission to small local business and people with sheds, fences and walls. It just goes to show how the planners will interpret the laws and what sort of people they really are. If these plans are fundamentally no different to the ones previously rejected then this also goes to show the kind of games the planners play. Maybe they think by refusing the first time puts them in a better light when they allow it the second time.
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Willo, how do you justify that comment when there’s a picture of a 4 storey building in the background?! That said, you’re quite right: trying to find parallels with a proposed oversized shed in a green field and a proposed block of flats in a town is a tad misdirected…
Mr G, didn’t Environment publish a set of Permitted Development (i.e. things that don’t need planning consent) regulations a couple of years back? That would clarify whether or not a shed for a mower needs permission, rather than assuming they always do.
I love the comments people post on here regarding planning matters! Keep them coming; I need a good laugh!
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First of all, having looked at the plans they should say that this development has five stories, not four….they conveniently forget to mention the ‘basement’ car park.
Can some one tell me though what is the point of having the meeting open to the public if they can not allowed to speak at it and put their objections in person and if the Environment have already decided to say yes?
I would like to go to the meeting as I am an interested party but like most I have to be at work then. Is it worth losing an hour and a half’s pay to see a fait accompli?
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A quick look at guernseypropertyprices.com shows that this site sold for £825,000 in 2008
No wonder the owners are anxious to get their plans passed
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Teresa,
BBC Radio Guernsey are on the Mignot Plateau just after 8am if you would like to voice your opinion? I’m going to the meeting to see how this ‘transparency’ works and see if Mr Honeybill has the gall to vote on a site in which he once had a vested interest.
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