Infill site: Deputy ‘was hoodwinked’

Wednesday 14th July 2004, 12:00AM BST.

ONE of the politicians who approved the controversial Trinity landfill scheme told a public inquiry yesterday that he had been ‘hoodwinked’ by the applicants.

Deputy Terry Le Main claimed he was never told that the scheme to create a reservoir and level five fields would require thousands of truck-loads of rubble and sub-soil being brought onto the site for several years.

However, the director of Planning, Peter Thorne, later told the inquiry that he believed that the extent of the scheme was ‘quite clear’ in the application.

Both men were giving evidence at the first public hearing of the inquiry being carried out by solicitor Carol Canavan into how the scheme got the go-ahead.

Deputy Le Main was one of three States Members on the Planning sub-committee which gave in-principle approval to the application by farmer Charles Gallichan last September.

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