Plans for a wildflower meadow labelled 'absolutely disgraceful'
NEIGHBOURS were 'not given the chance' to oppose plans to create a wildflower meadow on Fort Road, a resident has said.
Wildflowers are being sown in three areas of grassland between Le Val des Terres and Fermain, totalling approximately 2,500sq.m, in a bid to attract more wildlife to the area.
However, Fort Road resident Hazel Walden, who has lived in the area for 30 years, said Agriculture, Countryside and Land Management Services gave neighbours no advance warning and she labelled their conduct 'disgraceful'.
She said people who enjoy the open grassland for activities such as walking dogs and playing with children will 'have nowhere else to go'.
'It is a unique piece of land that absolutely anyone can use,' she said.
'Where else near St Peter Port is there a strip of grassland like this? It is such a precious piece of open public land. In the summer parents stop on the benches with their children and let them play on the grass and this will negate that altogether.'
There is already a surplus of places where wildflowers are grown, she argued.
