From Isabel Haydon.
I WAS both horrified and astonished to see a picture (JEP, 26 March) of the proposed development in place of the hotel in Bouley Bay in your paper.

A development of this nature, out of both context and character of the coastal site will completely ruin that part of Jersey’s coast.

We lived in Turkey for three years during a period of civil unrest and a military coup. There was virtually no tourism in those days and almost no tourism development in the miles and miles of incredibly beautiful and completely unspoilt coast from Antakya in south-east Turkey right around, anti-clockwise, to Turkey’s border with Georgia in the north-east.

Since the military coup tourism has increased tremendously; there has been almost non-stop development on the Aegean coast and some – but not quite so many because of the mountains, on the Mediterranean coast – developments just like the one in the photograph.

Very many previously untouched-by-man hillsides now have blocks of rows and rows of bright white little box-like houses. They are real eyesores, blots on the landscape, and so are the new roads that have had to be constructed to each development.

Our Turkish friends are very unhappy about what has happened to their very beautiful coast. Thankfully, however, some Turkish architects are now building small developments of stone houses set at angles to each other and among the trees – hardly visible from either land and sea and, of course, much sought after. It would he wonderful if the Bouley Bay developer could be persuaded to think along those lines instead.
Le Picachon,
Rue des Bouillons,
Trinity.