MORE than 260 affordable homes could be built on the Ann Street Brewery site if a revised planning application due to be submitted next month is successful, the housing provider behind the scheme has revealed.
Andium Homes is planning to build 172 one-bedroom, 85 two-bedroom and five three-bed apartments on the site of the former brewery complex, which last produced beer in 2004.
Andium Homes has also confirmed that it plans to convert the former Belmont Pub into a café and two residential apartments, while a ‘mini woodland’ is featured in the revised application.
Last year the company withdrew its plans for the project ‘to explore some additional options for the site’.
The original application included proposals to construct 271 flats – of which, 189 were one-bedroom units and 82 would have been two-bed apartments. It also included underground parking for 340 bicycles and 163 cars.
However, it attracted objections from government departments, with concerns over the loss of historic buildings around the Ann Street site and the effect on traffic being highlighted as potential issues.
The new application, which the public can learn more about during consultations being held today and tomorrow in De Quetteville Court tower block’s community room, from 3-6pm, features 262 homes, as well as basement car parking for 65 vehicles, including a seven-car EVie electric vehicle hub.
There will also be storage for a total of 496 bicycles – the equivalent of one per bedroom.
As part of the application for the former Ann Street Brewery, it is hoped that a number of historic listed buildings can be refurbished and repurposed.
The previous application included plans to turn the grade-three-listed 1820s Sans Souci detached house, just east of the old brewhouse building, into a new centre for Autism Jersey.
Andium Homes has confirmed that the revised offering features the same idea.
If the new application is approved, the eight-storey grade-three-listed brewhouse, which still contains its original copper brewing equipment and iron staircase, will be turned into offices as well as a new micro-brewery.
Number 12 Simon Place, a grade-four-listed Georgian townhouse, has a number of historic features including 19th-century 12-pane timber sash windows, an open well and mahogany staircase.
It was once occupied by map-maker Elias Le Gros, and it was hoped the property could be converted into caretaker’s accommodation.
However, under the new proposals it will be refurbished and repurposed into residential apartments.
Several proposals for the site have been put forward over the years, including a £30 million plan announced in 2010 to develop the complex into a supermarket with parking and 41 homes.
Then in January 2017, it was announced that the site could be turned into a 600-space multi-storey car park and a number of homes.
Just months later, Andium Homes bought the site from Comprop and announced its intention to build 150 flats there instead.
