Stan Brouard set to grow as planning fight 'is all but over'

A DECADE-LONG battle to expand a local business will soon be won, according to Stan Brouard Ltd's managing director.

After fighting since 1998, enduring many setbacks, taking the States to court and threatening to leave the island, Rodney Brouard (pictured) said yesterday: 'I am convinced we will get it now, at last.'

He has separated a planning request to expand the company's garden and leisure-goods centre into four separate applications.

'We split it up so if they find one problem, they won't end up turning the whole lot down.

'I don't know if it's the record, but it has been a very long time,' he said. 'I don't give up.'

The four-part application includes a building for the postal flower part of the business and a plant to mass-produce a product Mr Brouard believes will launch the company forward.