Deputy Terry Le Main will be asking the president of Environment and Public Services, Senator Philip Ozouf, if £105,000 of public money has been spent on supporting ‘a huge vodka distillery on a preferred site (a nine-vergée field in the middle of the countryside in St Lawrence) which will include bars, a restaurant and visitor facilities’.
He wants confirmation that this preferred site is currently precluded from non-agricultural development under Island Plan policies, and that although the distillery would be receiving unsold and unsuitable potatoes for around six weeks a year, this would not be considered as an exception to Island Plan policies or classed as an agricultural undertaking.
Among the Deputy’s concerns are the operational statistics which he claims are in the business plan: 10,200 tonnes of imported wheat per year; potatoes for only 80 days a year; 51,428 bottles to be imported daily; 900 cubic metres of water per day; 13,200 litres of oil per day; 70 trucks a day moving goods to and from the site and the harbour.
