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Sadly, the north coast was a bus trip too far for this Deputy
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From Jeremy Mallinson.
ONLY time will tell how counter-productive to the long-term quality of Island life and the conservation of Jersey’s unique biodiversity will be yesterday’s decision in the States, by only one vote, not to support the Chief Minister Ian Gorst’s proposal to use public money, with financial support from the National Trust for Jersey, to secure the Plémont headland for posterity.
However, although I well recognise that the pros and cons of such an important decision was on the whole constructively debated by the States Assembly, I cannot help feeling what a sad reflection it was for the quality of the debate to be so significantly diminished by the comments made by a St Helier Deputy, as recorded in the JEP (13 Dec), who questioned ‘Whether people would want to visit an area that contained nothing’ and ‘When the new bus people come in, why would they want to send a bus up to Plémont from St Helier when there’s nothing up there.’
Good decisions are made on good data, and let us hope that those States Members who voted against the Chief Minister’s proposition to purchase Plémont were far more aware and far-sighted about the quality of Jersey’s unique coastline and fauna and flora than Deputy Judy Martin, who has perhaps yet to take a Connex Bus trip as far as to the wilds of the parish of St Ouen and to Plémont’s fine headland?
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