Money dilutes the moral compass of society

A very good investment, so well done to the land owners.

May I suggest another view.

Maison de Quetteville, next door to the housing development, is occupied by dementia residents and you just cannot imagine the wonderful care that they are given by the outstanding management and care staff – truly amazing people.

Large tranquil gardens for sitting in during summer in almost absolute silence. Silence is needed as many residents sleep for hours after lunch.

Windows can be left ajar to allow fresh air to enter bedrooms and minimise overheating.

Within the care home there is almost absolute silence to enable these ill people to sleep at any time of the day in their bedrooms.

Nobody overlooks the existing bedrooms, which gives a degree of satiety in the minds of the residents.

In the summer singing occurs outside. When the building work gets going:

n All tranquillity will go away, with nobody going into the wonderful gardens.

n Dust will result in all windows at the care home having to be shut.

n The builders will all use loud radios during their work, with music not being the calming music needed for lost minds.

n Builders and new neighbours in multi-storey homes will be able to look into residents’ bedrooms, which will cause the living procedures to be changed for the dementia residents. They may well be frightened of strange men with large hammers.

Of interest to many retired people who are not ill is that this will also affect the L’Aumone retirement community which is next door to Maison de Quetteville. Once again, a separate tranquil place full of wonderful aged Guernsey people.

I have no doubt the building will all go ahead as the planning department or the deputies who set the rules do not consider aged or ill people in their building decisions. Imagine single-storey homes with no view of the patients – pre-assembled homes brought in and assembled in site with each home finished in five days – not the old-fashioned, one-concrete block placed on top of another like along the Braye Road – installed during the late autumn months when residents no longer sit outside – and music selected as being suitable for residents. I have zero confidence the planning department even consider such needs.

My beloved wife, who I cherished for three years with dementia and who now lives in Maison de Quetteville, will be affected by the noise and dust and will no longer be able to sit in the gardens of an afternoon, will have to close her bedroom curtains at all times and will be woken by loud noises all day.

So the happiness of the landowners is not my happiness as I planned for my beloved to have a tranquil caring situation for her remaining years.

Money, money, money dilutes the moral compass of Guernsey society.

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