60 turn out against development plan
Tuesday 2nd June 2009, 2:58PM BST.
St Helier Deputy Jackie Hilton addresses the meeting in Channel Television’s car park last night. Picture by Jon Guegan (00706015)
MORE than 60 La Pouquelaye residents attended a meeting last night to show that they are against building in a field near the Channel Television site.
St Helier Deputy Jackie Hilton organised the meeting so that residents could discuss an application to build 28 first-time buyer homes and 26 social rented flats in field 1248.
At the meeting residents said that they were most concerned about the traffic implications, the access road to the proposed development and the fact that the field used to be an agricultural field.
Deputy Hilton spoke to the residents and thanked them for coming, before outlining the background behind the application. ‘The field should be reviewed properly within the Island Plan review,’ she said. ‘I am not sure the need has been shown. Only half the first-time buyer homes at Goose Green marsh have been sold.’
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I thought Jersey had moved on but sadly no – As soon as the reference ‘First Time Buyer’ is used, the opposition come out in force.
This used to be very much the norm back in the 70′s and 80′s when I was looking to buy my first home. It really is a case of ‘I am all right Jack !’
Latterly there have been numerous developments of up market properties all over the island, and no one complains.
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if the price is affordable, £240.000 to 260.000
then young people will buy them
if they have the outlandish sum of £450.000 attached i doubt they would bother.
need to have some quality of life, as opposed to being on the clapped out treadmill of jersey life.
many thanks to the not in my back yard brigade.
maybe you would like to house a young family in a jersey chalet in your back garden for a £200 a week
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Having lived at La Pouquelaye from 1980-2006 I saw the area become more and more built up and traffic problems increase to unbearable levels.I remember that the roundabout at the bottom of Queens Road was going to solve traffic delays and ease the problems.They just got worse and when I visited Jersey last month I had the misfortune to find myself stuck at the top of Queens Road for about fifteen minutes so nothing changes.I am so happy to be out of it now but feel sorry for the residents still living there as this latest development will be bound to get the go-ahead as no-one listens to common sense anymore.It is a great shame.
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Down to too many people in Jersey I’m afraid. Reduce the population to more realistic levels and they wouldn’t need to build on green fields would they?
I used to live in the la Pouquelaye area in the 1960′s, it wasn’t bad then at all. It is appalling on Queen’s Road in the rush hour now, avoid it at all costs! The whole area is now much more built up, not good for quality of life for those living there.
I should image however that it gets the green light as development seems to be the number one passion in Jersey now. An easy way to make lots of money with very little risk.
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Another case of the Planning Department paying lip service to protecting the environment. If a field is able to be kept in agricultural use then it should never be built on.
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