The latest planning application is for land at Braye Road opposite the garage by Hillstone Guernsey Ltd, to ‘erect two flats and three dwellings, improve vehicular access, provide parking and amenity and improve/retain landscaping’.
A local couple who lived near the potential build for 34 years said development in the parish was getting to be ‘too much’ and decided this summer to sell their house and move to Spain.
Jean Pommier, 72, said: ‘When we first lived here it was all greenhouses. The area has changed a lot and it’s a bit too much, really.’
Mr and Mrs Pommier’s house was central to the developing of areas of land at La Route du Braye, Cleveleys Vinery, the triangular field at the Braye Road and Mares Pellees Road junction and Camp Dolent, Tertre Lane.
The couple, who have two children, three grandchildren and a great-grandchild on the way, said they made the decision to move to the Costa Blanca after their six-week holiday to Spain this summer. ‘It’s a shame [to leave], but the quality of life in Spain is much better.
‘There’s far less building and traffic and all that,’ said Marion Pommier.
A previous application for the Braye Road site for six dwellings was reduced to five units comprising two two-bedroom flats, two one-bedroom houses with parking and gardens and one three-bedroom house with parking and gardens.
Planning would not support the proposal of six dwellings as it appeared to raise concerns of over-development on the site.
Grandmother Joyce Cannell has lived along Braye Road for 28 years and lives opposite the triangular field at the junction of Braye Road and Mares Pellees Road, which has been earmarked for up to nine homes.
She is just a few doors away from the land opposite the Braye Road Garage.
‘Five is too many for that one,’ she said.
‘But I’m more worried about the one opposite.
‘It’s just too many buildings and not enough recreation – they are building houses but there is nowhere to go.’
Her daughter, Julie Pols, was also concerned about over-development in the north of the island. She lives in Brock Road, St Sampson’s.
‘It’s like wherever there is anything green they want to put concrete and cars there,’ she said.
‘There is too much at this end of the island – and all the rubbish will be coming this end to be shipped off.’
Not far away is Cleveleys Vinery.
A development framework has been issued for the vinery, which said the site could provide between 25 and 35 dwellings (which includes six one-bedroom units that have already been constructed to the front of the site).
Further along the road, and bordering Rue du Tertre, planning permission has been granted for 51 sheltered housing units, while another development brief approved by the DPA for Camp Dolent, Tertre Lane, states the site could provide between eight and 12 dwellings.
Up to seven homes are to be built at the junction of Les Mares Pellees and Sohier Road.
Consultation on the Hillstone Guernsey application ends on 16 August.
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