Did you know that the Committee for the Environment & Infrastructure is working on the development of a Strategic Infrastructure Plan for the island, which will help the States, as a whole, determine what the island will need in the future, and plan accordingly?
Last week this newspaper criticised the committee for an apparent lack of action and certainly a lack of progress. E&I’s major work is so bogged down with strategy it feels like it should also take responsibility for a Forth Bridge, such is the never-ending status of its work.
Its president told us last week that the committee continues to support the work of the Guernsey Development Agency in bringing forward a plan for the delivery of its strategic vision for the Bridge. That is an ambitious and exciting plan. But the nagging suspicion is that it will never get anywhere, such is the lack of pace and ambition behind it from government.
And while we’re talking about the east coast and strategic development, how does the new proposal for building on the Albert Pier, and an apparent mystery on the Crown Pier, fit with the GDA’s vision?
Nothing against the Albert Pier designs, but if this goes ahead in isolation, what price the rest of the work so enthusiastically picked up by the arms’ length GDA? For a committee driven by strategy, it’s all sounding rather non-strategic.
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