Guernsey Press

'States should pay us rent for golf course'

A GROUP of L'Ancresse Common landowners are fighting to prove their ownership rights, in a bid to get paid by the States for the golf course using what they say is their land.

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About 10 families have said they own a series of plots, which make up some of the land on the western side of L'Ancresse Road and La Jaonneuse Road.

Chairman for the Les Jaonet de la Commune de L'Ancresse landowners, Brian de Jersey, said they had been cut out of negotiations between the golf clubs, Culture & Leisure and the Vale Commons Council, when a deal was signed last year for the clubs to pay the VCC, via the States, an annual amount of, £50,000 annually for the next 25 years.

The landowners were paid £20 a year between 1947 and last year for the clubs to use the land.

But Mr de Jersey said there had been concerns about their proof of ownership, so they had been left out of the new deal.

Since then he has been searching church records and conveyancing documents, which now show evidence of ownership going back to 1771.

These have been passed to the law officers.

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