JERSEY’S countryside is under attack as building developments erode the Island’s natural environment, says the Action for Wildlife chairman.
Pete Double said that building along Les Mielles coast; plans to extend landfill east of St Helier, scrapping the Island Plan 2002 and re-writing it and the Plémont affair are all attacks on Jersey’s special environment to combat the Island’s current ‘population explosion’.
In a letter to the JEP he said: ‘It seems to me that Jersey’s natural environment is under siege at the moment, even more so than it is normally.’ Mr Double says that the government now seems to think it is perfectly acceptable to invade the green zone and their excuse is to blame Jersey’s ageing population.
He maintains that politicians must protect Jersey’s mix of country lanes, agricultural landscapes, a priceless intertidal zone, woodland valleys, fauna and flora.
• Picture: Peter Double (00011717)
