Decision was made on L’Ancresse wall, doomsday warriors
WHEN are the doomsday warriors going to give up reliving the States debate on the L’Ancresse wall (or lack of)? The debate took place and a decision was made… end of story. That lump of concrete was put there to prevent a tank invasion and nothing else. Let us return L’Ancresse to its pre-war days of meandering sand dunes from Pembroke headland to loophole tower no. 5 at the L’Ancresse headland.
If there is an ingress of water in the middle of the bay, then I am sure the golf course can embrace it as an added challenge. If a new kiosk is needed at the L’Ancresse end of the bay then I am sure an entrepreneur will come along and build another in a more appropriate place, as has happened at Pembroke and Vazon bays without any cost to the public purse.
If we look back at the 1930s without the concrete eyesore, there was no tidal ingress and there was a golf course there.
At that time the spring tides would overlap the walls of the harbours of St Peter Port and St Sampson’s, as they have done since the mid-1800s and still do today.
As a young boy in the 1940s when it was a spring tide, my parents would love taking me to Town on the bus to delight in the picturesque view of the old harbour and the tide tip-toeing towards the shops on the sea front. Should we not be considering protecting these areas before an area of nature which will still be there for many years to come?
Maybe these ‘experts’ believe the tide levels at L’Ancresse will increase at a faster rate than they will on the east coast of Guernsey or, perhaps, to paraphrase an old saying… if it’s broke, don’t mend it.
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