Tennis centre's 'potentially dangerous' narrow access road has to stay as it is

A NARROW lane will remain as the only access to the Guernsey Tennis Club after planning permission for a new road was refused.

More than 100 people visit the centre every day, but the only access is a single lane road, which is shared with an under-construction commercial warehouse.

Centre manager Mike Watt said that was potentially dangerous.

Unable to widen the lane due to properties on each side, the centre applied 17 months ago to build a new road between it and Route des Long Camps across a one-vergee field it owned. But last week, the plans were refused.

In the notification, director of planning control services Jim Rowles said 10 trees, which would have been felled under the plans, added to the character of the area and that the proposal would lead to an unacceptable loss of open land.