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16-StPeter - SummerQ1-2017-2.qxp_Layout 1 30/03/2017 10:53 Page 2 Spring2017 de la Paroisse de St Pierre Excludes GST where applicable. Terms and conditions apply. See www.sure.com for details. See www.sure.com apply. and conditions applicable. Terms GST where Excludes G ing West E 1 16-StPeter - SummerQ1-2017-2.qxp_Layout 1 30/03/2017 10:53 Page 3 16-StPeter - SummerQ1-2017-2.qxp_Layout 1 30/03/2017 10:54 Page 4 Les Nouvelles John Jacques is currently the voluntary editor In thisissue Welcome of Les Clefs p.3 Les Nouvelles: the latest news Big changes are going on beyond the shores of Jersey as the p.22 Les Associations: Battle of Flowers implications of the vote to leave the European Union are very p.23 Les Associations: Flying Wings slowly beginning to emerge with many questions yet to be answered. Now a hankering for change has arrived on our Parish doorstep. p.23 Les Associations: Twinning From May next year St Peter will no longer have a parish Deputy. St Peter, St p.26 Les Jeunes: Youth Club Brelade and St Ouen have been morphed into a single electoral district called p.32 Les Officials: From the Connétable ‘The West’. The decision by the States Assembly took most of us by surprise and, like the Brexit vote, that story has yet to unfold. Our Connétable John Refault and Deputy voted against the proposal, judging it to be solely ‘change for change’s sake’. He p.35 La Foi: Church news now fears for the future of the Parish institution in Jersey and predicts the days of Connétable are numbered. p.38 Les Événements: things to do In some respects, the three St Ouen’s Bay paris hes have been well ahead of political change. For many years now St Peter has hosted the three-parish West Show and will continue to do so this year – albeit in a somewhat truncated form concentrating on the horticultural event. In this edition, we welcome the first contribution on growing your own veg from the Jersey Association of the National Vegetable Society. And still on an environmental theme, th ere’s a challenge to parishioners who care about where we live and how we look after our land and water to unite. Magazine Editorial Publication As always, I would love to hear from any parishioner who feels the urge to Period deadline date write an article or become involved in any way with the production of this Summer2017 FriDAY 9 Jun FriDAY 30 Jun community magazine which relies entirely on volunteers for its editorial content. Autumn2017 FriDAY 8 Sep FriDAY 29 Sep Call me on 07797749440 or drop me an email at [email protected] . Winter2017 FriDAY10 Nov FriDAY 1 Dec Elms make a Elms were just about perfect“ for windswept Jersey as they comeback grow quickly; can withstand Elm trees have been planted on the roadside green “ salt air and their stout fronting Ville de L’Eglise, a tentative first step towards nature protects crops. re-establishment of the once common species in Jersey. Half a century ago elms lined almost every highway and by-way in the Island, but the arrival of Dutch Elm Disease in the ‘60s just about wiped the entire population and estimated 100,000 trees. Now the National Trust for Jersey is aiming to restore the elm as part of our landscape. To mark the Trust’s 80th anniversary, 80 disease-resistant elms have been donated to community centres across the Island. Elms were just about perfect for windswept Jersey as they grow quickly; can withstand salt air and their stout nature protects crops. The Trust has also launched a ‘Hedge Fund’ - a campaign to restore hedges to the countryside.e Trust Th hopes to plant 1km of hedges every year around land that it owns. Hedges, say the Trust, are so important to wildlife, providing food, shelter and nesting for birds as well as providing safe travel networks for hedgehogs, lizards, slow worms, toads, bank voles and shrews. The elm tree and hedge restoration projects are being supported by Jersey Electricity customers, as the company is making a £5 donation for everyone in the Island who switches to receiving their bills by email. Right: Young parishioners spent part of their half-term break planting disease-resistant Elm trees on a bare patch of grass at Ville de L’Eglise Right above: The Elms are near an earlier plantation of 50 trees, marking the 50th anniversary of the Liberation St Pierre spring2017 page3 16-StPeter - SummerQ1-2017-2.qxp_Layout 1 30/03/2017 10:54 Page 5 Les Nouvelles image: Plans for housing approved Proposals for 69 new homes at Beaumont Plans for developing the former Living Legend site in St Peter are being proposed for luxury housing have been approved. Dandara had applied to demolish various structures on the site to make way for nine four-bed and three six-bed houses along with provision for parking. The site off La Rue Du Petit Aleval had been in commercial use for many years. Some will remember when it was the Strawberry Farm. And the former Total Sport site at Beaumont owned by the Channel Islands Co-Operative Society is a step closer to redevelopment for housing. The proposals by Dandara are for 69 new homes – 21 two-bed and 48 three-bed properties. An image of what they could look like was on display at a public consultation at the beginning of March. With around 60 first-time buyer homes in the pipeline for the Manor Farm field, the Parish could soon be witnessing a housing boom. Bye-bye bass The glorious sound Recreational anglers should bin their bass lures and switch to other species. Stocks of the highly desirable fish are now so low of breaking glass they may not recover. The discordant sounds of glass crashing into the back of Anyone landing a bass must immediately return it to the sea and there’s a plea a collection lorry is, for most, one of those rackets we for anglers to learn techniques for helping the recovery of fish that don’t swim away once released back into the wild. could well do without - it’s all to do with over-stimulation Despite the low numbers of bass still surviving in the wild, Jersey is allowing of those tiny hairs in the cochlea apparently. But for the continuing commercial exploitation of local stocks. Up to a dozen boats team collecting our monthly offerings of unwanted employing rod and line to catch fish will be licensed to sell a maximum 100kg a glassware it is month during the open season. All fish must be sold locally and a verification scheme is planned to prove to restaurant owners and fishmongers that the bass just the sound on offer has been taken from a sustainable fishery. they want! All other forms of targeted commercial fishing for bass are banned but a small proportion – 3 percent - of by-catch will be allowed. Some neat and tidy Our neighbours are also not heeding international scientific advice for a parishioners are complete ban on targeting bass. The UK and France are adding an annual 10 going to the trouble tonne allowance for commercial bass anglers, allowing for potential catches of of bagging up their several thousand tonnes through the English Channel and North Sea, waste glass, but that, For the last 10 years local commercial bass landings have fallen from 24 say the collection tonnes a year to a little over 10 tonnes. It’s estimated that recreational anglers contractors, is a have been taking an additional 5-15 tonnes per year. problem for them. Locally, the new regulations are: Our Government only • A closed season in February and March desire naked and • A trawling bycatch of 3 percent clean glass at the • A netting bycatch of 3 percent recycling tip, not • A recreational catch-and-release fishery only with a bag limit of zero bundles of bottles fish for the full year and jars wrapped up in plastic bags. The A targeted bags have to be commercial removed before the hook-and-line glass is processed for re-use as hardcore and that takes time and money fishery of 100kg (your money). per month for So, just place your glass in a bin (or bucket, depending on how the small much you accumulate) and invest in some earplugs for wearing on number of boats collection day! with qualifying track records of over 250kg catch in any given year between 2014 and 2016 based on logbook records already submitted to Marine Resources. 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