PLANS have been submitted to knock down a landmark property in the middle of St Ouen’s Bay and build a five-bedroom home with basement parking, swimming pool and beachside hot tub.
Cutty Sark, which sits between Sands and Kempt Tower and close to St Ouen’s Pond, was a restaurant and then guest house in the heyday of the tourism industry.
Its name is still used to identify the surf break to its west.
The five-bedroom property, which also includes a one-bed flat, has been a private home for at least two decades.
The proposals, submitted by MS Planning Ltd on behalf of the current owner, include plans to demolish the building and replace it with a two-storey home complete with dining terrace, open-plan kitchen / living / dining area, and ‘dunescape’ canopies leading down to the Five Mile Road.
Plans include a car lift which will descend to a four-space basement garage featuring a turning circle and bike store.
The mismatched pitched roofs of the current property will be replaced with a flat-roof design, which will include solar panels and dunes. The project proposes using two main building materials: Jersey granite and vertical cedar cladding.
It is understood that, if approved, the rebuilt property – which sits within the Coastal National Park – will remain the home of its current owner.
The planning application states: “The proposal is to demolish the existing poorly fabricated and unsightly building, in a prominent and exposed location.
“Cutty Sark comprises of two dwellings, and it is proposed to replace it with a well-designed, highly sustainable single dwelling which is sympathetic to the natural and historic landscape within which it sits, achieved through design detail, use of natural external materials and the formation of a dune landscape.”
It adds: “The new dwelling would be reduced in terms of building footprint, above-ground floorspace and visual impact, and would be set back from the coastline to reduce its impact on recreational walkers along the promenade.”
The submission states that the building, in its current form and layout, “fails to provide a suitable living environment because of a disjointed internal layout, poor physical condition of the existing building and dated and incongruous external appearance.”
There have been several flat-roof-style properties built in St Ouen’s Bay in recent years, including on the former Château Plaisir site, near La Saline slipway and at the bottom of Mont Rossignol.
