"We all need to play our part in respecting the environment.", Freddie Cohen, Election 2005 Manifesto
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BC0BDC890C0213DD
I've added a playlist of 4 short videos which show the area around Les Creux. There is not only the dumping of the soil to be seen, as I start with the road widening, in which the construction company (or should it be destruction) have widened the road hugely, hacking away at the cliff face, so that instead of vegetation, there is now a raw granite face - which itself is not just the roadside denuded of plant life, but hacked away itself. Large wooden "sleepers" also abound, making the whole roadside - which used to be a pleasant stroll - into a very ugly path.
It is clear that lots of the material from here is that dumped further around, and one of the clips also shows that.
There is also a brief shot of Lord Trent's Grave. Jesse Boot, later Lord Trent, was the founder of Boots the Chemist, and it is his widow we have to thank for Millbrook Park, the Lalique Glasswork at Millbrook Church, and the football field next by to that. What they would have thought to this "uglification" of the landscape, I do not know!
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Interesting videos, thanks.
First one didn't look too bad, then it it got worse! The scarred area with the sleepers looks horrendous, but I presume in the fullness of time nature will reclaim what it can and it won't look so bad. It's a work in progress, isn't it?
Congrats to whoever took the video clips. I've tried takig still photos a couple of times, but its very difficult to get angles that show the wording and the whole memorial thay never seem terribly representative.
Video clips by my alter-ego Socrates2000a!
I do hope nature will reclaim the banks, but there may be soil run off if we get too much rain, i.e. undermining of the soil bank further up, and slippage. There's also not much in the way of places on the torn away granite for nature to reclaim; it needs soil to grow things, which is why Bouley bay is looking better now. I hope to go back in the spring and check up.
Rumour has it that a major fruit trade corporation files accounts implying that most of their bananas grow in Jersey. I don't know if that is true, but we certainly have a banana republic's planning system, if this is what goes.
Dave Rotherham
Well done, you did that which the Jersey media failed to do.
Video the wanton destruction and the illegal dumping into the sea.
Who does the road and beach belong to anyway in this 'millionaires row'?
A couple of reports in the JEP that something will be done and it 'may be illegal' if you follow these links... Soil dumped in sea and Criminal investigation launched into dumping which is of course the last that will be heard of this sorry little episode.
KC
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