News

A move by Planners to protect more than 40 trees surrounding the so-called Triangle Field opposite the Braye Road entrance to Alliance has been welcomed by the Vale's Senior Constable.

Anyone fly tipping anywhere in the island will be pursued with the utmost possible rigour, according to the senior civil servant responsible for the island's waste strategy.

The popularity of the Vale Parish's website has been featured by the Guernsey Press, which reported today that the more than 60,000 'hits' were registered in a recent 12-week period.

The Vale Douzaine is looking for new douzeniers because two of its experienced members are standing down after giving years of valuable voluntary service to the parish.

A bad case of fly tipping has occurred at at a well known Vale beauty spot and has been reported to the police for investigation and action.

Douzeniers in the Vale are increasingly being asked to take a harder line over hedge trimming as vegetation and brambles can obstruct pavements and roads.

Bordeaux had a late ‘spring clean’ yesterday as volunteers scoured the popular northern beauty spot for rubbish and removed it.

Five Vale households are about to be taken to court for not paying their rates, Senior Constable Richard Leale has confirmed as the Douzaine gets tough on defaulters.

It's September and so time to remind parishioners that by law all hedges and streams need to be cut and cleared no later than the 30th so they can be inspected by Vale Douzeniers. Here’s the official explanation:

Attempts by the Vale Douzaine to get improvements to one of the worst surfaced roads in the parish – and possibly the island – have been highlighted in the Guernsey Press Parish Matters column.