PUPILS at an Island prep school could get a new all-weather football pitch under plans to transform an ageing playground.
In a recently-submitted planning application, Jersey College for Girls explained that the junior school’s current playground has “worn” surfacing that “no longer meets the school’s functional requirements”.
There is currently one tree on the playground, which they said will be removed if their proposals are approved and the sports pitch gets built, adding that “root zones and canopy spread conflict with essential pitch construction requirements”.
The site, they school added, will “provide a safe, durable and year-round sports surface that enhances the school’s curriculum offer and overall outdoor sports provision”.
JCG has in recent years been rethinking how it uses the land available to it. In 2024, JCG and JCG Prep created a “wellbeing field”.
Despite sitting on the edge of a built-up area in St Saviour, the site has archaeological value, the school added, and as the only Upper Paleolithic site in the island, “it is of the greatest importance to the archaeological heritage of the island”.
But, the school said, the pitch would have a low impact on the landscape and had a “clear educational and community benefit”, whilst not impacting the fields around it.
Public comments are invited on the planning application, which is visible on is visible on the planning website.
