ALDERNEY should consider making concessions over land use designation if it is to get a marina fit to turn its economy around, Braye Harbour Developments chairman Gordon Owen said this week.
He spoke after Guernsey law officers insisted that the States of Alderney could not engage with another marina developer while Braye Harbour Developments was its preferred bidder.
Mr Owen said his company was still confident that they could start work on the northern breakwater of their scheme, under Toulouse Rock in Braye Bay, in late summer or early autumn. The unknown factor, he said, was how long it would take to gain planning permission for the properties that will underpin the marina's financing. The situation is augmented by the fact that a handful of those are planned for flanking pockets of designated area. In law, any change to the Land Use Plan requires an enquiry to be carried out by an appointed independent inspector, encompassing a full public consultation. They would also be required to obtain an exemption order to build. Fellow developer Alan Fulford, has also been involved in a marina plan, said he estimated the process could take more than 20 months.
Mr Owen called on government and residents to weigh up the long term benefits of a marina, insisting it would mark a watershed in the Island's economy, with up to £20,000 a day flowing into local businesses. But he added: 'If Alderney wants a marina then they should accept they've got to give in on one or two sacrosanct issues to do it. Changing a small part of the green belt to building land specifically to build a marina doesn't mean the whole island is going to be redeveloped. I have a vision of the land from Fort Albert to the sea becoming a pretty little marina village that didn't exist before. It's away from the commercial area and not messed up with the commercial jetty and the ships. Putting that village there would change Alderney for the better.'
The Guernsey Bereavement Service has made three visits to Alderney over the past few months and would like to continue to help you. We are visiting the island again on
Tuesday, 23rd February 2024 and would invite anyone who feels they would like Bereavement Counselling to telephone the Bereavement Service Office on 257778 to make a time to meet one of our counsellors.
Tue 21st July 2026 Free entry, retiring collection for ABO. Pete Ellis escaped office life in 2000 to take up a life in the outdoors. Soon becoming an International Mountain Leader, he led trekking holidays in the UK, Europe and further afield for the next 20 years. During this time, he also indulged his passion for climbing mountains, which included, in 2012, Mount Everest. This completed the Seven Continental Summits (the highest points of all seven continents), an achievement accomplished by a select group of about 400 people.
This talk is about the final, Everest, stage of The Seven Summits. The climb was from the north, through Tibet, the route originally visited by Mallory and Irvine in the 1920s. It will be a personal tale of the trip, illustrated with many photographs.
, Island Hall, 19:00
The Guernsey Bereavement Service has made three visits to Alderney over the past few months and would like to continue to help you. We are visiting the island again on
Tuesday, 23rd February 2024 and would invite anyone who feels they would like Bereavement Counselling to telephone the Bereavement Service Office on 257778 to make a time to meet one of our counsellors. 