Compliance notice for firm that failed to put in planting
A COMPANY which was served a compliance notice last month for failing to implement a landscaping scheme at its headquarters, has said that it was applying for a formal variation to it, following advice from landscapers.
Guernsey Recycling was granted permission in April 2020 to change the use class of the former Esso site at Bulwer Avenue to storing and processing waste, on the condition that a landscaping scheme involving the planting of trees and plants be completed to help the development fit in with its surroundings.
However, the agreed landscaping to the areas along the north-west and south-west boundaries of the site remain incomplete, according to planning officials who visited the site in November 2022.
This breached the planning condition and sparked the compliance notice, which was issued in January and will take effect at the end of this month.
Guernsey Recycling director Faye Grime said that due to the fact that part of the area in question is in shadow, the company’s landscapers had advised that the planting detailed in the original landscaping scheme would not thrive in that area.
‘Instead we have developed a new idea in collaboration with local Guernsey charities to install an attractive mural along the palisade fencing instead, depicting scenes of nature and the environment,’ she said.
Mrs Grime added that initial consultation with planners for this idea had been encouraging, and was the reason for the company’s application for a formal variation to the original planning condition.
‘We await a decision from planning,’ she said.
