Road widening plan 'threatens our homes'

RESIDENTS of L'Hyvreuse believe their homes could be at risk of subsidence if plans to widen the road go ahead.

Several have written to Public Services objecting to the proposals - but said the department had dismissed their concerns.

An application has been made to the Environment Department in a bid to provide easier access for maintenance work in the future.

Mandy Freeman has lived in L'Hyvreuse for 25 years. She said the neighbours to whom she had spoken were also against the proposal.

'They should just leave it alone,' she said.

Mrs Freeman said that previously road and drainage works had been carried out in sections and there was no reason why that could not be done again.

She said there was subsidence in properties along the road, probably due to cellars such as the one in her house, which runs underneath the road.

'German tunnels are known to run through the park and since I have lived here, they have twice fallen in.

'By increasing the width and therefore the potential volume of traffic along this road, you are putting greater stress on an area already subsiding,' she said.

Proposals would mean giving up a stretch of Cambridge Park, which is parish land.

It will be down to St Peter Port residents to give the go-ahead and residents are hoping they turn it down.