News

Vale Constable Richard Leale is to contact States Agriculture, Countryside and Land Management Services (ACLMS) over the deteriorating condition of Rousse Pier to try to establish a timetable of repairs for the facility.

A reminder for all dog owners in the Vale – January 31 is the last day for ensuring your animal is properly taxed and registered with the parish.

An election is to be held later this month for a member of La Mare de Carteret Primary Parochial School Committee and nominations for the single seat available are now being invited.

The new owner of the site providing the Vale Parish allotments has announced that she has a number of plots – including some under cover – available for new tenants in 2022 and is inviting people to contact her for more information and to arrange a visit to the site.

A solution to the rapidly-worsening erosion at the coast path bordering La Fontenelle Bay near Beaucette is to be explored by the Environment and Infrastructure Committee. President Deputy Lindsay de Sausmarez gave the assurance after she saw first-hand the problem first flagged up by the parish authorities.

Vale parishioners are being invited to comment on proposals that could see the Mallard Cinema Complex area developed for an unknown number of extra-care accommodation, nursing and residential homes.

Much wider exemptions from existing planning laws, due to be debated by the States today, have been generally welcomed by the Vale Douzaine, which considered the proposals at its last meeting of the year on Monday.

A former heritage interpretation centre off the Bridge could become a barber's shop if an application from a Vale couple is approved by planners.

Contractors have started site preparations on a former Vale greenfield site ahead of 11 new homes being built there. The area, known as Camp Dolent, off Tertre Lane, was the subject of controversy when development plans were first announced several years ago.

Fears that a popular north coast path is in danger of being washed away in the next set of gales and a high tide are to be raised with the Environment and Infrastructure Committee.