Move to revive town park plan

Thursday 15th July 2004, 12:00AM BST.

AMBITIOUS new plans have been launched today for a town park and 1,400 underground car parking spaces on the old gasworks site.

The plans are the work of surveyor Andrew Le Quesne, who says he has invested up to £100,000 of his own money and time into the scheme because he is so frustrated with the lack of action by the States in delivering the Island’s major Millennium project.

He has employed French architects and UK consultants to prepare the plans, which would cost up to £30 million to turn into reality.

But despite the hefty price tag, he believes that the project could be self-funding from the profits made from the car park, which he says should remain in public hands, possibly managed by a trust.

Allowing a private car park operator such as NCP into the Island would be akin to ‘selling off the family silver’, he says.

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