Planning insist on cottage restoration

Friday 21st April 2006, 12:00AM BST.

PLANNING want a Victorian workman’s cottage in Waterworks Valley to be saved – even though the owners say that restoration would leave them £100,000 out of pocket.

Jersey Water applied to demolish the reservoir’s keeper’s cottage, which sits at the entrance to the company’s Millbrook reservoir depot.

Built at the end of the 19th century, the single-storey cottage has been unoccupied for ten years and is listed in the Island’s historic buildings register as a building of local interest.

Jersey Water argued that because the estimated cost of stabilising the cottage, which has been undermined by subsidence, exceeds its saleable value by more than £100,000 it should be demolished.

Nonetheless, the Planning applications panel yesterday decided that the cottage should be saved and put to a profitable use.

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