Island Plan rules ‘a barrier to allotments’
Wednesday 29th June 2011, 2:58PM BST.
A thumbs down to the proposals from Jeff Hathaway
PROPOSED allotment rules have left some Islanders seeing red rather than green.
With the flagship site at Les Creux in St Brelade flourishing and new schemes proposed in St Lawrence, St Helier and St John, new Island Plan rules could affect their development.
The States policy could put more restrictions on where allotment sites can be set up, parking provisions and the buildings on site.
Jeff Hathaway, chairman of the Jersey Allotment and Leisure Garden Association, feels the new policy is unnecessary and creates red tape.
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ah, the island of restrictions and controll.
” you cant do that there mate.”
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So it’s fine to have fields full of horses creating a monoculture of over-grazed, over-fertilized land but it’s not OK to take a small step and allow people to grow their own. One island; two rules. Exercise in the great outdoors for the rich that involves immense land-take (golf, private horse ownership)is fine, but exercise for the ‘rest’ that also has the spin-off of creating more diverse habitats, food with less chemical inputs, a greater connection with nature and the opportunity to connect the younger generation with food production is not. Why am I not surprised.
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Another thing for the normal person not allowed if Dandara had suggested allotments all would be passed no fuss
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They can’t scrape any GST from your food if you grow it yourself.
It’s one the type of tax avoidance that our goverment doesn’t agree with.
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Typically you are all overreacting. The clue is in the wording “could put more restrictions” and the statement that they want to control parking and “buildings on site”.
If they didn’t have controls it would be a matter of time before someone parked a boat on a site, or someone else put up a blackwork monstrosity of a shed.
Personally I am relaxed about this – if you want something enough you will ensure that you don’t flout planning laws.
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That’s all very well, but waiting on planning to get their finger out, remember what they are paid to do and actually getting around to doing it is, well, snooze-inducing! Possibly the slowest department of any department in any Government in the world.
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