NEWLY-ELECTED deputies will have the chance later this year to relax the planning law further, the Environment Department has said.

ISLANDERS have given deputies a great insight into how they want the island to look through the Guernsey Tomorrow consultation process, according to Confederation of Guernsey Industry chairman Peter Budwin.

AROUND a third of those who responded to the Guernsey Tomorrow consultation were aged under 19, according to the strategic planning officer.

EARLIER this week this newspaper posed the question, in the light of the States’ Guernsey Tomorrow strategic initiative, what sort of island people wanted to hand on to their children and grandchildren.

THE future of the island was placed in the hands of its youth yesterday.

EMPOWERING citizens is being seen in some circles as the next necessary shift in politics. A move from state control, although not dismantling it in the way some on the right would, but also away from the emphasis on the individual, two doctrines that have battled for supremacy over the past decades.

GUERNSEY’S government is now in listening mode.

ONE of the arguments put forward by this newspaper since the machinery of government was overhauled in 2004 is that islanders do not really know what government stands for, largely because Guernsey does not have aspirational political parties.

Islanders are being asked to help shape the future of their home.