£1,000 a year to use L'Ancresse 'reasonable'
LANDOWNERS are being 'fair and reasonable' when asking the L'Ancresse and Royal Guernsey golf clubs for £1,000 per year to use their plots, a representative has said.
As the Vale Commons Council and the two golf clubs have yet to come to an agreement, the 10 private landowners have advised that they would be willing to allow the clubs to continue using their land.
An agreement dating back to 1947 resolved that each landowner should receive £2 a year from the clubs. However, they are now looking for the sum to be raised to £1,000.
Representative Brian De Jersey said the £2 a year fee was tied into a 70-year lease.
'This is a heck of a lot of land and, in this day and age, when the golf clubs are making millions, we think what we are asking for is a very reasonable amount.
'It is not for me to say what the Vale Commons Council should have and what the golf clubs should pay. I am just representing the landowners and I think what we have asked for is fair and reasonable.
'I do think the golf clubs have had the land for dirt cheap over the past 70 years.'
