£1 million boost in bid to save Plémont
Monday 18th January 2010, 3:00PM GMT.
The future of the Plémont site is to be discussed by the States tomorrow
AN anonymous donor has pledged up to £1 million to save the Plémont headland on the eve of a States debate to decide the future of the site.
This week the States are due to debate whether to force the owner of the former Plémont Bay Holiday Village to sell his land so that the current eyesore can be demolished and returned to a natural state.
The National Trust for Jersey, which has been campaigning to save the land for the last decade, has today received a last-minute donation of up to £1 million.
The organisation’s chief executive, Charles Alluto, said: ‘We delighted to announce that we have been approached by an anonymous donor who is prepared to pledge up to £1 million towards the purchase of the Plémont site, on the strict proviso that it can be fully returned to its natural state.’
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Tax payers money should not be used to compulsory purchase the former Pontins site. The proposed revised scheme showing a self-catering complex styled on a traditional granite farm community complex is a good replacement for the concrete white eyesore that exists at present.
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More money than sense springs to mind!!!
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Instead of giving to all these foriegn charities…I would gladly give money to support a good local scheme, aslong as their are no houses built on the site this is something which will benefit the entire community.
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Congratulations to whoever has made this magnificent and very generous offer towards the possible purchase of this site.
There are so few areas of Jersey that can be preserved for future generations, as the rapacious attitude of property developers in the past few decades has completely altered the island, and certainly not for the better.
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You’re very welcome, I just felt it was time to give something back…
NJ.
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A generous offer however the tax payer will still have to find £13m and in case anyone has forgotten we are in the middle of a recession and £13m would keep a lot of people in work!
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@tricky .. no it will only keep a handful of roadworkers in work to dig up a perfectly good road and re-tarmac it as they are currently doing with Victoria Avenue. Buying this land will be a lasting legacy to our children unlike most things the States spend our money on. £5 million for Tamiflu for the swinflu ‘epidemic’ springs to mind. Now that’s a waste.
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14 million or any amount for that matter should not be spent , on behalf of the “no say in the matter” taxpayer.
demolish and build and landscape
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Let’s see. Developer is prepared to give 2/3 of the site back for nothing, or the environmental lobby expect the cash-strapped States to stump up 14 Million quid. Do the Maths people.
14 Million is a lot of cash which could be better spent elsewhere especially in these economic times. How many Nurses or teachers or Firefighters or Ambulance Crews would this pay for? If the developer is perpared to give back 2/3 of the land at no cost to us, the taxpayer, then he should be allowed to do so. The majority of the population have only ever known this piece of land as a eyesore (Both as an operating holiday camp and as a derelict site) so what the developer proposes is a massive improvement on what is currently there.
If the people against the development want it , let them raise ALL of the money, including the money that would be required to restore the site.
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Kram Lafar.
What lasting legacy? We ghave ruined everywhere else. This would be too little to late and we do not have the cash to spare on futile gestures
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