JUST in case the following contradicts something else I have said about buildings in the past, I am going to write it very quietly.

This also means that when I change my mind about it in a couple of weeks’ time, readers outraged by hyprocisy and an apparent ability to forget my previously stated views will not have heard it properly.

So, quietly, I am not averse to the plans for the nine-storey apartment block at the burnt-out Wesley Chapel.
Firstly, it usefully uses a site that is actually in St Helier as opposed to on the Waterfront.

Hopefully, this means that we won’t need a bridge to get to it or to be reminded of its existence.Somehow keeping the façade of the chapel does not jar as it has elsewhere either. I was not a fan of the same concept at the new Tourism building, but somehow with the idea of a square in front of the old façade gives it a purpose, which it doesn’t seem to at Tourism.

Perhaps I am also coming round to these all glass structure things too – or maybe it is the artist’s impression with all that sky.

So that leaves the parking. Mind you, by the time it is has been argued over, approved and finally built we might all have abandoned our cars when the cost of petrol outstrips the cost of our mortgages.