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What happened to Jersey’s famed resistance to change?
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From Chris Harper-Mears.
AS I come to the end of my second holiday in Jersey, my first having been in 2008, I can’t help but sense a change for the worse within Jersey, and in particular St Helier.
There appears to be an unabated push towards turning this beautiful Island into an enclave of Europe both in terms of its modernist architecture and influx of migrant workers within the ever-expanding service sectors.
This dilution of population will, I guarantee, create problems in the long term. You can feel the fracture lines already.
The appeal of Jersey, in my view, has always been its insular view and its stubborn resistance to change. Indeed, its past refusal to adhere to external dictates was much to be admired.
But you appear to have thrown the baby out with the bathwater in your march towards ‘modernisation’. It is clear that there is now a surplus of hotel
accommodation and apartments. For whatever reasons, your Planning department have allowed themselves to be romanced by the large developers, whose only remit is to make money as quickly as possible.
Why lose now what makes Jersey unique in this unified world we live in – that being its identity?
I would urge you to limit both the degree of inappropriate developments and the influx and quantity of migrant workers, including us English. I cannot think of one European state worth emulating, so why bother?
The irony is that after celebrating 65 years since Liberation, Jersey now faces another invasion that will be more far-reaching and destructive to the Island and its habitants, that being the greed of a few opportunist developers, backed up by their sidekicks within the local authority.
I don’t know these people, but I bet they’re the same short-sighted people who are allowing Sunday trading.
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