PLANS have been lodged to demolish the Jersey Pearl site in St Ouen’s Bay.
If approved, the current buildings and large car park would be replaced with a smaller shop, along with a café and community studio, and a car park.
A three-bed house and four-bed home would also be built on the site.
In a planning statement lodged by MS Planning, it states: ‘At its heart, the proposal seeks to provide a viable future for the Jersey Pearl tourism site and an enhancement of St Ouen’s Bay through more sensitive design and siting of development, and landscape and ecological improvements.
‘The application documentation shows a fundamental change from a site dominated by a large car park and a large building to a site dominated by planting and landscaping, accompanied by buildings that are sensitively designed for their context and lower, appropriate levels, of car parking.
‘A reduction in built floor area and footprint are proposed. This would be achieved whilst retaining an employment use, providing two good quality family homes and a facility available to the community, all constructed to meet sustainable design objectives, and also delivering safer accesses and enhancements to sustainable transport options.’
