Strategy For Nature: Changing The Use Of Land While Enhancing Biodiversity

Senior Planning Consultant Chris Crew joined Collas Crill in April 2022 to offer specialist planning advice as part of the firm's property services in Guernsey. Chris is a Chartered Member of The Royal Town Planning Institute has more than 17 years' experience gained in the UK and Guernsey. He joins Collas Crill from the States of Guernsey Planning Service where he worked as a Senior Planning Officer for eight years. Here he shares his views on changes to the planning application process to change agricultural land to domestic garden in Guernsey.

The recent launch of Grow Guernsey Natives is an excellent example of the type of positive action needed to realise the ambition of Guernsey's 2020 Strategy for Nature (the Strategy) - the framework for the States of Guernsey, private sector and community to strengthen the island's response to the changes facing nature from climate change and other human made pressures.