‘Final hurdle’ on Nelson Place development cleared

Wednesday 16th November 2011, 2:29PM GMT.

Architect Andrew Merrett by the wall in Forest Lane which will be removed to make it easier to take rubble away from the Nelson Place development. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 1198934)

WORK on Nelson Place will begin in the new year, after the Environment Department board approved an application to allow access from Forest Lane.

Planning permission had already been granted to demolish some of the buildings at the back of the former Post Office site, but developers Ossory Estates faced the challenge of how to remove the rubble.

Lovell Ozanne and Partners architect Andrew Merrett attended the open planning meeting to address concerns about the removal of a wall at the back of the site, which would mean rubble could be taken away via Forest Lane. ‘This was a key thing – the last planning hurdle in the way of moving on with the development,’ he said.

All the board backed the application, except Deputy Janine Le Sauvage.

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Ray

November 16, 2011 at 4:46 pm

Pity the report didn’t include Deputy Le Sauvage’s reason for not backing this common sense application,or was it her turn to be the token objector so that the whole process looked business-like

One other item in the written Press report which shocked me was the fact that Environment were able to dictate how many parking spaces a bungalow in St Andrews MUST have.Apparently it had two spaces whereas the computer said that it must have three

It’s about time some of those old 1939-45 laws were repealed

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  November 16, 2011 at 10:05 pm
  
  She was also the token objector forthe airport rehabilitation project. At that one of course, the public were gagged but she was concerned about the use of the green belt fields for the batching plants.
  
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    November 17, 2011 at 10:39 am
    
    Unfortunately, because of space, the original report did not say that Deputy Le Sauvage objected to the application as she felt the board had not
    been given enough information about what types of vehicles would be using the entranceway and how much traffic it would generate.
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      November 17, 2011 at 2:06 pm
      
      Subs
      
      Thanks for that.I put the question to my three year old grand daughter and she thought the type of vehicles they would use would most likely be lorries
      
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Pedal Boy

November 17, 2011 at 3:07 pm

I can carry rubble in my rickshaw if required.

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Ray

November 17, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Another ‘if it wasn’t so sad it would be hilarious’ story concerning Environment in Thursday’s Press

An application to change the use of a packing shed was rejected on the grounds that the computer says it has to remain as a packing shed!

Are those numpties still living in the 1950s?

Get your head out of your rule books for a nanosecond and you will discover that there is now very little call for tomato / flower packing sheds and a huge demand for builders stores etc

I can see the headlines come next May/June …

An application to change the use of a fulfilment warehouse was refused because the computer says it must remain as a fulfilment warehouse!

I think I’m right in saying that the next 20 year land plan is soon to be debated

20 YEARS! Who knows what’s going to happen in the next twenty months yet this plan,which is probably already five years in the making, will be set in concrete and will become the new rule book for the human robots at Environment to fastidiously follow to the letter no matter what the island’s needs are from year to year

Deputies let it sail through by all means but insist on adding a final section to the effect that ‘in the event that common sense is overridden by any of the above sections then common sense will have precedence’

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