Turning Plémont back to nature won’t draw any more people there than visit it now

Friday 24th April 2009, 2:59PM BST.

From Patricia de Gruchy.
I AGREE with Brendan McDonald (JEP, 20 April) when he says the States have been ‘ducking and diving’ for too many years about Plémont holiday camp.

My husband and I have lived for over 40 years with Plémont as our view. While I am not in favour of the self-catering units, I definitely do not want to see the States spend our money buying it back.

The hundreds of thousands they would need to buy the site would not stop there, because to enable it to be turned back to nature thousands more will be needed to demolish the site and remove all the rubble, including the concrete foundations.

Turning it back to nature will not entice any more people to visit the area than already go there.

The last plans that Mr Hemmings produced for housing on the site, which were on view at St Ouen’s Parish Hall, were architecturally attractive and traditional. There is the area to bring these houses away from the headland, and I expect it would be landscaped sympathetically.

The States, once again, have missed an opportunity to do something positive with the site.
Val Joli,
Rue de la Gabourellerie,
St Ouen.

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Tony

April 24, 2009 at 5:58 pm

It is not a question of how many will visit the area it is a question of saving and restoring as much of Jersey’s beauty as possible.
Whoever measures a site’s value in the number of people who may or may not go there is extremely short-sighted.
Jersey is in real danger of losing its one great asset – its natural beauty. And if there is the possibilty of doing something to preserve or restore this beauty then it should be done.

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