I just don’t understand why they’re not keeping some of the existing building – I can’t think of anything cooler then living in a converted brewery! Far more interesting than living in another glass and concrete box. It’s an old area of town too, I don’t see how they can justify that as being sympathetic to the surrounding area. I wish they would think about something other than money, for a change.

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wwwguernseypropertyprices.com shows that the Brewery was sold for £1,835,400 in August 2007

Add five years worth of interest to that sum,add a six figure sum for architects fees,add cost of demolition,add cost of rebuilding and you would have to cram a hell of a lot of genuinely affordable flats in there just to break even

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And I really don’t hold with this view that they would be in some way inhibiting progress by being more traditional. Some modern architects are capable of designing beautiful, creative buildings which are sympathetic to their surroundings. Many more are lazy and stick to building bland, utilitarian style boxes. Contemporary does not always equal good. St Peter Port is one of the most beautiful port towns in all of Europe in my opinion, but being so small that can easily (and irreversibly) be ruined by destroying iconic old buildings and replacing them with ugly rubbish.

Also, to all those labelling the above people as nimbys, consider how you’d feel if a development was announced near you that reduced the value of your property considerably. Add in that this is actually rather unnecessary and shouldn’t have been given permission in the first place, considering the trouble us normal folk have in getting permission to, I don’t know, build a conservatory. I know I’d be upset.

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Do you work in a Library and feel the need to shout after work?

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The rest of us in commerce and industry are suffering because of Greedy estate agents and landlords. The situation is being masked by cheap emigrant labour living outside the real Guernsey economy, very often in subsedised accommodation paying very little or no tax.

At the same time we in our 40s and 50s have our kids in their 20s and sometimes 30s living with us because they can’t afford a roof of their own on what they earn, or worse they can’t get work.

Recsession always starts with high property and high energy prices, government too slow to respond and ends with high unemployment.

I certainly don’t agree that a working person should have to choose between affording a life or a home. There is plenty of wealth to go round now as there always has been, it just needs to be a little more evenly disstributed. In my view it is the job of government to ensure that it is.

I hope deputy Jones has a comment.

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Step in and sort this out mate

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