Developer Simon Sloman bought the public toilets at La Pulente in St Ouen’s Bay from the States for about £120,000 last year, and is due to submit plans to the Planning Department imminently.
If the application is approved, Austin Dix and Katy Pierce, who run health food café Moo in New Street, are to open what they describe as a new-age beach café on the site.
Mr Sloman, who recently pledged to push forward with plans to redevelop the toilets following a spate of vandalism there, said: ‘Plans are going in very soon.
‘It will be a purpose-built single-storey restaurant.
‘The internal area will be about a third bigger than the current toilets, and we are incorporating the public toilets in the structure.’
Moo, which stands for ‘mostly organic origin,’ sells raw juices, smoothies, salads and home-made snacks from its New Street premises.
Mr Dix said: ‘We are super excited, subject to planning consent, to be opening a new-age beach café at the La Pulente site, offering a wide range of divine foods for breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner, and obviously the odd cheeky snack including all our in-house products.
‘We believe the site is perfect for what we want to achieve – eating healthily, living well and having the sea around with the perfect view.’
It is proposed that the restaurant would operate seven days a week throughout the year.
Ms Pierce said: ‘We are working with a local architect who appreciates the beauty and sensitivity of this amazing site and we want to see it transformed from its current state, which has unfortunately been subject to anti-social behaviour.
‘The public toilets will still be available for everyone, so this will not change.
‘We are simply looking to improve the existing site and bring something new to the bay.’
