National Trust asks Planning to protect St Brelade coastal site
Thursday 30th July 2009, 2:57PM BST.
The Magasin (top left), which has been converted into a small dwelling, with the guardhouse below
PLANS for a ‘substantial’ extension on an 18th-century building in a prime St Brelade coastal location would be ‘out of proportion and inappropriate’, say a heritage group.
The National Trust for Jersey, which recently announced a campaign to protect the Island’s coastline from overdevelopment, has said that plans for Chalet du Coleron, Le Chemin des Creux, would have a detrimental impact on the coastline.
This week the owners, David and Caroline Phillips, applied to Planning to renovate the historic magasin and guardhouse overlooking St Brelade’s Bay, while adding a three-storey glass residential extension.
The trust is urging Environment Minister Freddie Cohen to follow the policies in the Island Plan and remember his comments in 2006, when he said that an extension to ex-Formula 1 world champion Nigel Mansell’s house should never have been passed.
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Anybody who cares for our coastline and the feel of Jersey,let’s get behind the National trust and stop this incremental rape of our home….
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It certainly looks as though word has got around that, with all the other distractions going on,
now is the time to get your iconic coastal retreat built.
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Please dont spoil our coast line any more, keep some of our island as it should be, and not end up looking like an island of buildings.Our island hertage is fast disappering as it is, with the renaming of streets etc Why do SOME feel this is necessary.
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And how sustainable will a three story glass house be in the face of rising fuel prices?
We are in the middle of a deep recession and oil is not cheap.
When the economy picks up the oil price will soar and a lot of this property will face enormous bills for heating.
I can see these houses becoming the Jersey equivalent of the Easter Island moai.
There are already plenty of them on the Spanish coast, staring blindly out to sea abandoned by their owners.
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I agree the Nigel Mansell place really stands out from where I live and spoils the landscape.
I also STRONGLY object to plans in place to demolish Windward House, Le Mont Sohier (online the planning application states “Land at Windward”). This will replace a property totally in keeping with its landscape atop Ouisane/St Brelades with 5 new buildings! Windward can be seen above the red tower on Ouisane
This should be refused planning and if possible the Trust could get involved I hope?
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Let’s be honest there’s not too much point in trying to object to these plans. Depressingly enough this is twenty first Century Jersey, money talks. No other language is understood by the planners……
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Money has always talked in Jersey but never more so than now.
That’s because the Island is run by people with money and they intend to keep it that way.
Think of it as that plane that you ride to the Caribbean. Those of you in the back are only there on sufference. It’s the ones in the big comfortable seats that call the tune!
Their attitude to you is summed up by the famous Jersey boat maxim.
They wouldn’t even wish you the luxury of leaving by air!
I agree with you Matt, it is depressing – but not for them.
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Matt O, I sympathise with your view but disagree strongly,as it is what they want, for us to capitulate,and become downhearted and accept the unacceptable,WELL I for one reject it totally,and asking this current Planning Minister to assist is akin to asking a rapist to be in charge of a girls school. planning and environment,..it has been an unmitigated disaster to have him in both,Favouring the Godawful McCormack designs we see these glass edifices springing up,Wolf’s Caves site as an example who…? mindful of the fragile nature of coastal appearances would even consider two Beverly Hills monstrosities there,Mansell’s complete sticking the finger up to the island with what he’s done to that headland I’d kick him off the island,but the point is he should never have been allowed in the first place,,A legacy of Gerry Dorey,take a bow gerry it will disgust for generations
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Yet another coastal “Minimalist” structure proposed.(See comment re Windward House/Wolf’s caves/La Coupe etc.)What a surprise! especially when you see what’s happened at Sandbanks near Poole in Dorset. I also understand the motivation if you see what’s happened to the house prices there.
I don’t see how Planning can stop this small development when there are precedents set at other sites in the Island already underway or up for planning on a larger scale!
Obviously the view from the sea is the important consideration here especially with St Brelade’s Church in such close proximity.
The argument in favour of inflicting this sort of minimalist architecture is as dangerous to existing buildings and views locally now, as low cost 1960′s high alumina cement structures were to many buildings of note in cities and towns all over the UK (And Jersey) in that era.
The result of that “Fashion” was that many city and provincial town centres in the UK today look alike, and considerable money is having to be expended now to correct the situation where possible.At least the sixties look was not a revival of an earlier design period, and was an attempt to do something original but different.
Do not get me wrong I am actually a great fan of both “Art Deco” and “Art Nouveau” architecture and design, but some of this new interpretation of those styles is far too “Minimalist” and they are not styles you can pull off on the cheap!The best original examples of these styles made up for the limited featuring with the high quality of the build and the fixtures and fittings.
Sadly much of that is only to be appreciated by those with access to the interior of such buildings, so in effect they are styles which arguably are rather selfish when put in a picturesque coastal environment where there is no public access.
That probably explains why most genuine buildings of those design periods sited on the coast were either Hotels or Flat blocks.
Coastal views (From onshore and off) are for everyone’s pleasure and should not be allowed to become wholly exclusive.Owners of such property should accept that there is an element of social responsibility in what they choose to inflict visually on the public in general that goes with the territory.
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