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A commercial price should be agreed for this fine site
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From Richard Whatmore
IT appears from your 12 April edition that the Jersey Development Company has been charged with constructing six buildings on the Esplanade car park which are ‘expected’ in time to yield £20 million for the States, but whether as a result of sales or lettings, has not been revealed.
There is apparently no initial payment to be made for the site which neatly removes any commercial imperative from the Development Company now in a far better position than any of its commercial developer rivals, who are struggling with considerable site fees and with supply still outstripping demand.
I suggest that the Development Company should be required to do three things:
n To agree a proper commercial price for this excellent central site to be paid to the States so that competing property developers cannot accuse the States of giving the Development Company an unfair advantage.
n To exhibit models of its proposed development to the citizens of St Helier so that they can be satisfied that the design affronts of the Waterfront Enterprise Board are a thing of the past.
n To provide alternative parking during the period of construction for those who now use the car park.
Lee Henry, the managing director of the Development Company, has talked disparagingly of the quality and design of the WEB buildings and has also used pretentious platitudes such as ‘the spaces between the
buildings are just as important as the buildings themselves’ and ‘a high quality public realm’. The exhibit of his proposals will reveal to the general public the quality of his plans, how they fit into the townscape and should show members of the States whether or not his plans represent good value for future tenants.
Let’s hope we don’t have 9,000 signing a petition against them as happened for the Radisson Hotel.
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