Developers head for court as douzaine blocks road plans
Monday 30th May 2011, 2:29PM BST.
A truck enters Route Militaire from the planned site of the access road carrying rubble from the demolished house that stood there. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 1141161)
THE St Sampson’s douzaine is being taken to court by development company Longport after the parish refused to allow the company to create a junction for the proposed Guernsey Data Park.
The demolition of Beechgrove House began last week to make way for the new access road onto Route Militaire.
However while planning permission has been granted by the States, the St Sampson’s douzaine has refused to issue a bornement permitting the work to go ahead.
The douzaine is expected to comment on the decision later this week.
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What an absolute token gesture. If the douzaine wanted to stop or even try to stop this new junction they would have opposed this develepment at the planning stages (which have been going on for the last 5 years). I dont think this will stop the new junction however it would make me chuckle if it did after longport have just spent all week demolishing the house that sits in its way.
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as the site is now to be a high tech buisness park there will be very limited vehicle movements,so no new entrance or traffic lights will be needed,unlike if it had been for small companies to operate from,as is needed.
and why did the states give longport the public pavement in st julians avenue for an unloading bay,these should be part of the development land,as should have been with other recent office developments nearby!!
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time out
Good thinking. This is not an industrial park which will have 60 foot container traffic movements every day
Why should a private business area interrupt the free passage of traffic on the main road?
A yellow line with good sightlines should suffice
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WHY?
Well might you ask.
Guernsey is no longer the place we knew, apparently money talks louder than honour.
All of this under the pseudo name of DEPENDENCY.
What a farce!
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Time out
I dont understand. This data park is going to be a hive of activity and a huge boost to the economy creating hundreds of jobs for local people, let a lone all the work it shall create for the local building companies to create the park.
or are you saying that these data centres only manned by a few people and run by companies overseas and that our local firms will not be hired to build these centres because the data centres are so specialist and the work will go to overseas firms?
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Once the Data Park is built generally there will be a handfull of staff onsite monitoring systems etc,yes it may bring income to the island but they dont require large numbers of staff,thay are just very secure warehouse full of electronics and air conditioning!
traffic should be minimal.
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If the traffic is minimal, and only specialist from the land of OZ are to be employed,
what’s all the beef about?
It’s once again colonialism, mark my words,
Give them an inch and they take a mile, and then bite the hand that feeds them.
No special conditions for them, they have only come to once again deny England the taxes they should pay.-
Our States are far to readily giving away our birth rights.
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