Field owner is dismayed over shed reversal

by GD Sun 30 Jan 2011, 2:15 pm

THE Environment Department needs to move with the times, according to one landowner who is being forced to take down his shed.
Roger Mancini (pictured) bought a field in Rue Carey, St Peter’s, in 2008. At the time, he explained his plans to Environment – and checked whether he would be allowed to erect a shed.
‘They said as long as it could not be seen from the road, it was OK,’ he said.
Having got the go-ahead from the Environment Department for the shed, it was erected last year.
But at the end of last year Mr Mancini received a letter from the department saying it had to go – along with a picnic bench and 25-litre water containers (from GEP)