THE National Trust for Jersey has objected to proposals to build a rooftop garden on a property in Gorey, saying ‘enough is enough’.
Soleil du Matin on Route de la Cote has been the subject of numerous applications in recent years and the heritage body says that it ‘exerts a very substantial presence in a sensitive coastal area’.
The four-storey home has been subject to seven different planning applications since 2014.
The first plans submitted eight years ago were to demolish the existing home and construct a new three-bedroom property.
Each application since has consisted of revised plans and a number of extensions to the original scheme.
The latest proposals include converting the existing roof space into a rooftop garden, which would include a number of kitchen units, plants and a fire pit.
In a letter submitted to the government’s planning website by the Development Applications Panel for The National Trust for Jersey, they said: ‘Permission was originally granted for the demolition of a modest bungalow and the construction of a new three-bedroom house over four storeys, and this permission has been modified on various subsequent occasions.
‘The cumulative effect of these subsequent alterations has resulted in a material increase in the size of the property from that granted by the original permission and the existing building now exerts a very substantial presence in a sensitive coastal area.’
The Trust said the scheme had taken a ‘continued salami slicing’ approach of seeking incremental revisions to previous plans.
‘The elevation plans show that this will materially increase the height of the property over its immediate neighbours and we believe that this will present an even more imposing aspect than at present,’ they said.
‘We would ask Planning to decide that, in this case, enough is enough and to accept this letter as a formal objection to the application,’ they added.
