I SUSPECT like most of your readership, I pick up my GP, read the front page headlines and let out at best an audible groan or more often than not, a series of expletives. Saturday morning was no exception.
We now find that the States, which seems to be unable to galvanise itself to focus its efforts on any of the fundamental issues facing the island – education, housing to name just two, has managed to focus its attention on of all things, the Fermain Beach Cafe.
I DO NOT always agree with Deputy Peter Ferbrache’s view but, on the subject of the Castel Hospital, I agree with him wholeheartedly. The island is in desperate need of housing whether for key workers or otherwise. The Castel Hospital site is ideal for development with little, some would say’ in the way of architectural merit. It has been neglected for years, as have so many structures in the care of the States, and will continue to be so until it crumbles and becomes dangerous. One point which Deputy Ferbrache has alluded to but did not pursue – many of the older generation of islanders will remember the hospital with abhorrence because of the treatments meted out to 'inmates' as they were then termed; from young people being locked up for life for the crime of being born with such conditions as Down’s Syndrome or ‘idiocy’, to those people who were apparently subjected to electric shock treatment for their bipolar disorder.
Design plans have been drawn up to transform these much-neglected sites into up to 90 three to five bedroom family homes, all with outside space and parking. | ITV News Channel
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What a week of disappointment this has been.
I’ve not only been let down by the BBC in the revelation that Buckles was ‘H’ but more seriously, I’ve also been let down by a mob of islanders who took so much offence to a letter from C Davey of the Vale that I was concerned they would be out with their pitchforks and flaming torches seeking revenge for a ‘crime’ which wasn’t even committed.