‘Concrete creep’ is burying Vale
HOW many more fields will be subject to what I term ‘concrete creep’ in the Vale parish? In the last 77 years I have lived in the Hure Mare and adjacent to it. The original house where I lived, where I was born in 1941, was called ‘Croute au Sage’. Two other families lived here too and two fields were next to these houses. The houses and the fields are now under concrete with the power station and States Works on top.
My family moved to the Hure Mare opposite the field where Island Development planners are planning to add to ‘concrete creep’ and build another large estate of houses. As a boy, I looked out of my bedroom window and watched cows grazing in this field. Until recently horses still grazed here until Planning gave permission to place three containers here on a temporary basis.
It is strange that since that permission was granted half of the field is now filled with building materials, containers and vehicles. Is it perhaps so that when Planning decide whether or not to give permission for houses to be built here, the neighbours will already be used to it being more or less a building site and make no objection? The horses are, of course, long gone.
I have lived here in Rue des Barras for 32 years. This field and one on the other side of the road are the last oasis of green left near the Hure Mare.
When will this ‘concrete creep’ stop in the Vale and the Island Development planners consider the people who live near them? Isn’t it about time the overbuilt Vale parish is given a break from taking the brunt of building?
W. J. LE PAGE,
Arnwood,
Rue des Barras,
Vale, GY3 5RF.