The decline of the cut flower industry in Guernsey is set to pick up pace after the decision of the Island Parliament agreeing to site two new schools on Les Nicolles Nursery, the biggest rose-growing centre on the island.
A fee of £1.8m has been paid for the land, and the Education Council now has full permission to clear the area of glasshouses and commence erecting new school buildings to serve the north of the island.
The nursery was originally built for the factory-production of tomatoes, but when that part of the horticultural industry went into decline it became an important rose-growing centre, changing ownership twice.
It is now being business-managed and will continue to produce a rose crop until conversion work starts.
This is another nail in the coffin of Guernsey's once thriving horticulture sector. As previously reported, exports of flowers from Guernsey this year will fall to just 350,000 boxes.
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