Public Asked Their Views On Guernsey's Harbours

Monday, 4 December 2023 07:27

The Guernsey Development Agency (GDA) is asking islanders about their ideas for Guernsey's two harbours.

The GDA was set up by the States earlier this year.

It will oversee development of the east coast but is primarily concerned with St Peter Port and St Sampson's harbours and coastal defences to prevent flooding.

An online survey asks people what they like about the two harbour areas - such as free parking and the quality and number of food outlets - and what could be improved.

Chair of the GDA, Peter Watson hopes as many people as possible will complete the survey.

"The development agency is able to look at various areas that can be developed. We will hopefully make a profit out of some areas which we can then spend in developing other areas which won't make a profit.

The whole idea is that we can try to develop these areas by using the land without a huge amount of public fund input.

We are trying to engage with the whole of Guernsey. We would hope that we are going to be getting thousands of people filling in the survey. I think it's really important. We are the people's agency, so we are trying to do what people want us to do.

We will collect the responses and publish them so we can share them back with the public. At the moment there's a planning inquiry going on, so we can shape the input to that, and then hopefully - once that planning piece is finished - we can move on to actually develop some of the areas."

Ideas will be fed into a Planning Brief.

You can fill out the survey here.