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What about these other rezoned fields as a suitable site for a care home in St Saviour?
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From Graham Le Lay, vice-president,
Jersey Farmers Union.
WHILE wanting to protect agricultural land, I do sympathise with the dilemma of John Reed (JEP, 1 April) but find it difficult to understand why no site has been found for his worthwhile cause of finding a new home for the Good Companions Club.
Surely if States departments, particularly Health, have been assisting him, then the rezoned fields a few hundred yards from his proposed site should have been suggested, as they fit his needs perfectly. However, that is only if they are used for the purpose for which rezoning was granted, which seems unlikely when you compare what the developers have now submitted.
Fields 516, 516A, 517 and 518 in St Saviour, a total of 27.25 vergées of agricultural land, were described in a proposition called ‘Provision of land for life-long homes amendment to Island plan’, lodged au Greffe on 22 May 2008 and subsequently approved by the States Assembly, as follows:
‘The development could also provide a 75-bed residential care and dementia home, guardian accommodation, indoor and outdoor recreational facilities, shop, surgery, car parking and amenity space. A public car park to relieve potential on-street parking in Chasse Brunet will be ceded to the parish along with pedestrian improvements in Chasse Brunet.
‘The amenity open space, provided as part of the development, will also be protected in perpetuity by legal covenant.
‘The retirement village will consist of a range of amenities and facilities which will be provided by the developer and managed on a non-profit-making basis by an appropriate professional organisation, approved by the Minister for Planning and Environment. A planning obligation is proposed which will seek to ensure that the communal social amenities, such as day-care services, community hall, activity facilities, restaurant and café, hairdresser and shops, are fully accessible to residents and the wider elderly community.
‘The Health and Social Services department has confirmed that the principle of a retirement village is acceptable and that it would support the inclusion of a care and dementia unit within such a complex.’
However, this is what the developers have now put forward for approval by planning, as described in the St Saviour parish magazine:
‘The community centre will be based on the development and is about 5,000 sq ft in size. It will be exclusively for the use of the residents of the retirement village and it is proposed to provide the following facilities: office, well-being centre, library, hairdresser, reception, kiosk, games room, village meeting hall, toilet and kitchen facilities and warden’s flats. Eight new parking spaces for residents of Chasse Brunet.’
I urge John Reed without delay to approach the Planning department and negotiate an involvement in the development on Fields 516, 516A, 517 and 518 in St Saviour before it is too late.
The bonus is that the proposed field 528 would be saved for agriculture.
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