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There is a surplus of one-bedroom flats
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From Brian Hotton.
THE Planning Department have sanctioned the switch not to build six three-bedroom maisonettes and have instead 12 one-bedroom flats at Salisbury Crescent, St Helier (JEP, 12 May).
My reason for opposing the change was simple, 12 one-bedroom flats can accommodate 24 people maximum. Six three-bedroom maisonettes can accommodate 30 to 36 people. This means a loss of accommodation for at least six to 12 people.
I viewed the plans at South Hill and nowhere was there mention of allocation of parking spaces to particular flats. There are 44 parking spaces on this site. In the original plans there were 27 units of accommodation and the 44 parking spaces, now there are not 27 units but 33 units of accommodation and the same amount of parking.
Two of the parking spaces are for disabled parking, one in the basement car park and one on the level surface. If the lifts are out of action at any time then the unfortunate disabled person will have difficulty emerging from the underground car park. Why could not the two disabled parking spaces be on the level surface car park?
As your article pointed out, there is a surplus of one-bedroom accommodation, according to the States Housing Survey there are 1,300 surplus one-bedroom flats and a shortage of three- and four-bedroom accommodation.
The Housing Minister every possible moment is using the columns of the JEP to tell all and sundry what a good job he is doing, and telling the public how he needs accommodation for the elderly.
There is a housing charity in Jersey which houses ex-servicemen and their families and they will not sanction the building of one-bedroom flats, because they know of the value of the second bedroom, even when there are only two occupants. At least the children or grandchildren can come and stay for a short holiday or in an emergency.
If the Chief Minister is to be remembered, then he should have a long overdue reshuffle at Housing, better still hand the job over to the soon to be formed Jersey Enterprise Board.
66 Stopford Road,
St Helier.
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