Commons Council meeting agenda published

Details of the agenda for the forthcoming annual general meeting of Les Habitants du Clos du Valle has now been published, along with a proposed new member to be voted in.

Matters for discussion include the President's report, the audited financial statement of the council, and a presentation by the Vale Commons Council (VCC) Environmental Advisory Group.

The meeting, at the Vale Douzaine room at 7.30pm on Friday the 6th, will also invite any other business for Habitants to raise matters of interest relating to the Common.

Important
Although a lesser-known part of the island's history and heritage, the VCC's role is very important as, by law, its members have a responsibility “to regulate and supervise the use of the Commons not only as a place for the exercise of the rights of common pasture, but also as a place of public resort and recreation and this in such a way as to ensure as far as possible to every person the opportunity to enjoy the amenities of the place for those purposes and to prevent any use which would be harmful to the general interest.”

More information can be found on the VCC's website here but those elected to the council manage what is Guernsey's largest area of recreational land: all 740 vergees of it, plus two football pitches, a golf course, 16 car parks, various roads and tracks and Occupation and historic remains.