Neighbour takes dim view of plans for 'concrete ghetto'
A 'CONCRETE ghetto' will replace a tranquil field, a concerned resident has said, after the Guernsey Housing Association was given outline planning permission to develop next to La Nouvelle Maraitaine.
Samantha Deane, whose flat faces the field, said the development of eight homes for people with autism and around 20 properties for older islanders, would be detrimental to all who faced it.
The new build would also detract from the reason people moved there in the first place.
'The view is one of the reasons that I came here. It has that rural edge to it,' she said.
'When I was moving here I kept saying there was that delightful field, it has cows in it and then a real purple haze of Guernsey orchids and bees.
'It is important grassland, and now they want to fill it in with concrete, I call it my concrete ghetto.'
She said she and others living nearby were not told about the development, and it was only because one of her friends went to look at the notice on the other side of the field that they found out what was happening.
The development, to be known as Le Vieux Jardin, is said to be the first of its type in the British Isles.
