Camouflage, please, for this monstrosity

Monday 1st March 2010, 3:00PM GMT.

From Paul Acton-Phillips.
THE monstrous incinerator plant continues to rise in its true awfulness.

Even from our house at the top of Mont Millais, it is as high as the horizon. This one cannot be blamed on WEB.

I presume that this concrete blockhouse will be painted. Magnolia will not fit the bill. Can I suggest that a person adept at camouflage painting be called in to try to break up the slab-sided proportions of this building.

I truly feel sorry for anybody who lives at Havre des Pas. Their west view is now for ever blighted.

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Toastedteacakes

March 1, 2010 at 3:08 pm

Guy du Faye will enlighten you on this one, he loves the new incinerator and epecially the fact that it has two beautiful burners within so that one can be switched off when the other is not being used.

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Tony

March 1, 2010 at 3:59 pm

Give some of the graduates/unemployed artistic youths a chance to do a giant mural!

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Pip Clement

March 1, 2010 at 4:55 pm

Just wait until the waste ships start rolling in from Guernsey!

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J-Cat

March 1, 2010 at 6:38 pm

I notice the new developments at Havre des Pas seem to omit that glorious vista from their advertising materials.. I wonder why?

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Toastedteacakes

March 2, 2010 at 11:31 am

The waste ships from Guernsey can be brought in using submarines and low water boats in fish shape. Still unsure how they propose to disguise the stench.

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Adrian

March 2, 2010 at 7:09 pm

I wouldn’t be as worried about the look of the thing myself. St.Helier is a blot on the landscape now so it should fit in well I think. I would be more concerned about hidden dangers not too obvious to the naked eye.

To me it is a joke having this item right next to a Ramsar Site but hey what do I know? This is what we pay all these experts big wages to do. Nevermind if contamination of the sea life occurs we will know who to point the finger at, won’t we? However I believe prosecution might be somewhat more difficult!

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Old-Craupaud

March 3, 2010 at 9:02 am

If it was grassed over on top, and the sides covered with ivy, perhaps it would not “Stick” out so much…

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428 CJ

March 4, 2010 at 10:13 pm

Lansdscape pollution. Poor Havre des Pas. But also consider the view east from St Aubin looking back to Elizabeth Castle – what’s in the background ??

Talking about blots on the landscape, the new airport silver thermos flask is a now prominent feature ruining many a previously beautiful view.

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