Where are the laws to protect our land from greedy developers?
HERE we go again, no sooner as the ink has dried in a letter to the Guernsey Press about building in a green field next to the PEH for key workers, we now see at the opposite end in the Oberlands another green field site up for a build of nine dwellings. Please, please the planning department do not allow this to happen.
All around the island we see landowners turning their land to diversity in wild flowers etc – wherever you walk, ride or drive this is so noticeable. But others appear to only wish to turn their land into building plots and all for as much as possible.
Even behind our own property in the Rue des Frieteaux, which borders the Oberlands, a strip of land once a greenhouse site is now a development of two properties.
What happened to the golden rule of previous States – on no account should greenhouse sites or agricultural land become building sites?
We have just seen a front page report about previous States doing nothing in the past, how true.
It really is a disgrace what is being allowed to happen to our beautiful island and all again for greed and money.
This world is now struggling to provide food to live and here we are just turning our food production land into building plots.
We are approaching that era over 80 years ago when World War Two had a food shortage, they said then to dig for victory.
With Russia and Ukraine causing immense problems in the world in energy and food etc, here we have a government who has lost the plot and have no desire to provide immediate laws to protect our island’s future, to help become a little self sufficient and protect our land from greedy developers.
R S MAUGER