I AGREE entirely with your editorial views (JEP, 29 July) and those of the National Trust for Jersey concerning the proposed development of the Watersplash at St Ouen’s Bay.

As a deterrent to such grand-iose schemes, I suggest that any company with proposals to run a business on the seafront at Les Mielles (St Ouen’s Bay) should be expected to undertake responsibility for the area of seawall which their property covers — and even perhaps beyond it.

It should be remembered that the seawall is actually an anti-tank trap designed to last as long as it took the Third Reich to dominate Europe.

Sixty years and millions of pounds in repair bills later, the wall is still only a temporary affair, and the States of Jersey should under no circumstances undertake to maintain it for the benefit of commercial enterprise, especially new commercial enterprise.

In these testing times of global warming, having to sign an indemnity which precludes the States from responsibility for foundation repair work under new seafront developments may even make insurance companies a little wary too.
The Old Coach House,
Oxenford Close,
St Lawrence.