No sign of agreement on the value of Pontin’s site
Saturday 27th June 2009, 2:57PM BST.
The Pontin’s site on the Plémont headland. Estimates have put its value at more than £5 million
MINISTERS and the owner of Plémont are still a long way apart on their valuation of the site.
A report will be published soon setting out options for the States to either let the site go, to buy it at any price, or to put negotiations on hold until after the current Planning application for 73 tourist chalets has been determined.
The States have told ministers to try to buy the site to turn the former Pontin’s holiday village into a nature reserve. But estimates have put the value of the site at more than at £5m.
Deputy Chief Minister Philip Ozouf said that ministers had discussed the proposed purchase at their meeting on Thursday.
‘The Council of Ministers discussed what the options are, mindful of the strong public interest in returning this site back to nature,’ he said. ‘There is a cost associated with this. Discussions with the owner have been held and their aspirations for the value of the site are high – probably a lot higher than people may be expecting.’
The value of the site is complicated by the pending Planning application. If Mr Hemmings gets permission for the 46 two-bedroom and 27 three-bedroom units, clubhouse, reception and staff flat, then the value will be much higher.
Environment Minister Freddie Cohen, who will have to decide that application, did not take part in this week’s discussion.
The Pontin’s site on the Plémont headland. Estimates have put its value at more than £5 million
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in this present climate we are in surely it would make sence to develope the site as the states get money in from taxs, it creates jobs for islanders, in the building of and the running of at a later time, and you are giving tourism another place to advertise to stay, instead of always closing them down. this makes sense even to a outsider as my self, even more so when you say you cant stump up a bit of extra cash to keep your heritage sites open. for gods sake get real.
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Isn’t this a luxury we can’t afford?
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Hold on, we have 3 heritage sites due to close down with job losses for want of 1 million pounds and the states want to spend 5 million buying this site so that people have a nice place to take their dogs for a dump.
Build homes on the site, a mix of private and states just like the waterfront. There are no shortages of nice walks for the treehuggers, yes it would be nice to keep it for a nature reserve but in these tough times economics surely takes presidence.
If I had the money I’d buy it and build a house on the site, that would keep the NIMBY’s happy regarding traffic issues and retain it’s natural beauty.
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Just a minute here,you development hungry lot with your illogical argument,get real, the heritage story has NOTHING at all to do with keeping this headland natural, Heather and gorse need NO staff,wages or anything else,this developer is trying to develop and make money,and I for one Hope nature wins and he loses,cos they’re not making any more of it,short term money grabbin’ attitudes,consider this,you won’t take one penny in your cold white hand when the time comes….
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This is a great opportunity for the States to put some money where their mouths are at. This is the perfect site for the Island’s Marine Study,occupational training and Conservation College (University).You already have,with a little refurbishment,primary buildings including on site catering and campus accomodation.Let’s get some real input and output from our Marine environment going, other than Crab/Lobster/Bass/Mackeral etc. for the table!It is also a wonderful site for seabird study.
Paying pupils like the language schools, activities:Diving training /Boat and ship handling/Conservation/Marine rescue training/enviromental and Marine accident training/Salvage/Marine Archeology/Marine equipement development/Navigation etc.
Instead of just knocking it down, put it to work to create local jobs and ongoing employment.Take a firm control over it’s progressive re-development, funded by it’s ongoing activity as above, as a green environmentally friendly site of learning and education about that environment.That spreads the costs of redeveloping the site to achieve a less intrusive type of development.
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