While the field, which makes the corner of Les Gigands Road before the traffic light junction, is to be used as an overflow car park, it will be grassed over.
Oatlands investor Gareth Griffin said when the contractors started work they put up fencing which included a reference to ‘paving’ and this had given passers-by the wrong idea.
He said that once work to add drainage to the field is complete, stabilisation grids made from recycled material will be laid and top soil will be added and seeded.
Mr Griffin said that the grid material being used is similar to that used elsewhere, except that it is green.
He said Oatlands was the first place in the Channel Islands to ‘go the extra mile’ and invest in this material, which is more expensive that its more common black counterpart.
‘We don’t want the end result of a green field compromised with possible traces of black showing…
