A cancer patient who waged a long-running battle with the Environment Department over noise and vibrations from two electrical substations near her home has died.
Michelle Le Cornu died earlier this month, having received a stage-four cancer diagnosis last year.
Mrs Le Cornu had been teaching art classes for around 20 years before having to give them up following her diagnosis.
Fellow art teacher Laura Hudson, who took over the class in recent months, said the lessons had been consistently popular with students over many years.
“Michelle was an amazing teacher – her classes were always full and she was very well known,” Ms Hudson said. “She was a mentor to me as well as to lots of other people who she worked with, and it’s a great loss to the Jersey art community.
“It was very important to Michelle that the classes should carry on, and we had some lovely conversations about that.”
Ms Hudson said she hoped that some of the late-teacher’s work would be exhibited in the coming months.
In recent years, Mrs Le Cornu had been in a long-running battle with Environment Minister Steve Luce and his department.
Mrs Le Cornu lodged a formal complaint against to department, arguing that Deputy Luce should have issued an abatement notice to Jersey Electricity to stop the noise and vibrations emanating from nearby substations, which Mrs Le Cornu said had ruined her life.
After the complaints board found in favour of Mrs Le Cornu, Deputy Luce apologised for the suffering she had experienced and admitted that his department could have handled the case better.
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