The cotil adjoining Water Lane has been carved up as part of the development.
Projected visitor numbers are estimated at 8,000 to 10,000 in the first year, mainly in Summer months and weekends (up to 4,000 locals and 6,000 tourists.)
The Adventure Centre is to be open 7 days a week until end of September.
- Noise from the Adventure Centre will be a serious and major problem for local residents of Water Lane (which was formerly a relatively tranquil and peaceful area.)
- The area alongside Water Lane where the assault course is being built will be virtually impossible to secure. After closing hours the Adventure Centre will be a magnet and target for teenagers and unruly elements. And this will of course greatly increase the potential for serious accidents and vandalism.
When the developers are finished very little of the lush greenery of the cotil will remain and the natural wildlife habitat will have been virtually destroyed
- It seems there has been a disingenuous contrived manipulative abuse of the Planning process for commercial interests.
The scale and size of the development in this location definitely does not comply with the spirit or the letter of the Island Plan.
A variation of a quote attributed to Edmund Burke 1729 ~ 1797:
“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
Please contact your local politicians (click here for list ), or Senator Freddie Cohen's office 448416, the Planning & Environment Dept 445508, the National Trust Jersey 483913, or write a letter or email to the JEP (click here), and let them know your thoughts and feelings about this flagrant abuse and desecration of the countryside. If enough of us begin to raise our voices we may be able to make them heard and get something done. It's only taken them just over three weeks to erect so it could be taken down in less than a week.
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