Les Vaux Housing Trust has submitted proposals to bring down the six blocks at Troy Court, which contain 108 flats, and replace them with six new blocks comprising 123 units.
Under the plans, which were today due to be considered by the Planning Application Committee, the new properties would still be let on a socially rented basis.
The scheme includes 123 parking spaces at the site, kitchens that face communal areas so that parents can keep an eye on children as they play outside, balconies for all properties, three play areas for children of all ages, internal stores with space for 40 bicycles and a clothes drying room for each block.
The plans are supported by the Planning Department, which has recommended that the committee approve the scheme. No public opposition to work, which would be carried out in phases, has been lodged.
Chairman of the Les Vaux Housing Trust, former Social Security Minister Francis Le Gresley, who took up the role recently, said: ‘We want to keep our stock in the best condition for tenants and these are buildings that were built just after the Second World War.
‘They have lasted well because they have been well maintained, but they have not got the modern comforts we would like our tenants to have.
‘The site will be a mixture of three-bed, two-bed and one-bed flats, each with its own parking space. There will be recreation areas for young and older children and we will also be carrying out landscaping at the site.’
At the same planning meeting, which was today due to be held at the St Paul’s Centre, the Planning Committee were also due to consider changing the use of part of Field 585 at L’Abri Farm in St Martin so that marquees could be erected at the site for six months of the year to provide space for the parish to build floats for the Battle of Flowers.
Committee members were also due to consider plans to build a two-bed home at Parcq de l’Oeillère in St Brelade.
Plans to demolish extensions of a historic property, Seymour Villa in Plat Douet Road, St Saviour, and build two new bedrooms were also expected to be reviewed.
A MAJOR development to build nearly 300 homes in the heart of St Helier was given the go-ahead in March – bringing the number of new homes approved or proposed in town to around 1,200.
Following the news, St Helier Constable Simon Crowcroft pledged not to give up in his opposition to the newly approved scheme to build 285 homes at the former Gas Works site.
He wants the States to buy the site and use it to extend the Millennium Town Park and provide extra parking in town.
One Island developer put the cost of buying the site now that it had been granted planning permission as ‘heading towards £10 million’.
The development in Tunnell Street is the latest in a line of planning schemes proposed for St Helier, which ministers are proposing be put at the heart of government policy over the next four years.
In total more than 800 new homes have been approved at a number of St Helier sites, including 242 at Dandara’s scheme at Westmount and 159 at the former Jersey College for Girls site. An additional 40 homes have been given the go ahead at Fort d’Auvergne at Havre des Pas, while two developments at the Waterfront on an area of land close to the Radisson hotel have also been approved, with 11 units at a scheme called West Water and 58 at another called Zephyrus.
Meanwhile, several schemes which would provide a total of around 400 units – including 183 at a site close to Grande Marché and the Gas Place development, 174 at the Hotel Metropole and 19 at the former Ann Street Brewery site – are awaiting approval..
Approved units:
Gas Place – 285
Westmount – 242
Fort D’Auvergne – 40
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West Water – 11
Zephyrus – 58
Le Coin – 23
Pending units:
Grand Marche – 183
Hotel Metropole – 174
Ann Street Brewery – 19
