PLANS have been submitted to build a temporary duty-free shop for passengers departing the Elizabeth Terminal at the Harbour.
If approved, the off-licence retail facility would be operated for three years pending the completion of the Harbour Master Plan.
Currently, passengers travelling on Condor can purchase duty-free products on board the ferry. However, there is no duty-free offering on land at the Harbour, unlike Jersey Airport.
A submission to the government’s planning website read: ‘Ports of Jersey Ltd is establishing a duty free off-licensed retail facility at St Helier Harbour that is accessible to customers of passenger and passenger/vehicle ferries departing from the Elizabeth Terminal.’
It added: ‘Both external units will be connected to electricity only, sanitary and welfare facilities for both customers and staff are already available on site and in close proximity to both units.
‘The duty-free retail facility would be operated in this form for a period of three years pending the execution of the Ports of Jersey Harbour Master Plan where purpose-built facilities will incorporate a duty-free offering.’
As part of the proposals, a shipping container would be used to store products. According to the planning application, the scheme would also include ‘a discrete and secure unit within the Elizabeth Terminal that would serve as storage for duty-free alcohol and other duty-free products, together with two customer accessible frontages, one for placing orders and product display, with another for collecting purchases after security’.
It continued: ‘A product display and ordering facility adjacent to the land-side vehicle lanes situated to the east of the Elizabeth Terminal building and accessible beyond the Condor Ferries check-in desks.’
