From Michael Dryden.
WADING through Tuesday’s JEP, as I still force myself to do despite the depressive nature of such an action in these days of continual poor decision-making, Las Vegas lawsuits and general out-of-control and unaccountable ministerial government, I stumbled across the article concerning plans to redevelop the Watersplash in St Ouen’s Bay.

So here we go again. While many of us still continue to oppose plans to build a housing estate on the Plémont headland, another grandiose and totally inappropriate scheme rears its ugly head, this time in St Ouen’s Bay, supposedly the jewel in Jersey’s natural crown and certainly as important a natural site as Plémont, if not more so.

If that little Dutch boy were in the Island, he would need several friends to try to plug all the holes that keep being punched in the Island’s environmental wellbeing. St Ouen’s Bay, that ‘special area’ – well, it is bound to be approved then! No doubt the developers will claim that this will be a vast improvement on the existing building, just as the Plémont developers have done.

I attended the Chief Minister’s presentation of his green speech last week, at which he made all the right noises. Now here is a chance to put those fine words into action – keeping Jersey special. Or were they just noises? We shall see.
Roblea
Route des Genêts,
St Brelade.