Plans in for homes on Alliance site
Monday 21st December 2009, 2:57PM GMT.
An artist’s impression of the Antler development of 20 houses and 14 flats
An application to build 34 homes in Plat Douet Road has been submitted to Planning.
Antler Homes wants to demolish The Old Canning Factory and Chellow Dene to build 20 houses and 14 flats.
The site has housed businesses for many years. Previous tenants include Alliance and Burnham’s Transport.
The development, which would be up to five storeys high, would consist of one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom houses and one- and two-bedroom flats .
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Traffic chaos will only get worse if these get built. Why not a park with children’s facilities, open green lawns for the eastern residents of the island. Greedy!
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Does anyone else remember Checkers offering to sort out the Recreation Ground junction as part of its (passed) expansion plans many moons ago…or did I imaginine it?
This junction grinds to a soggy halt at school and work times already, let’s add 34 dwellings = 70 cars. Oh yes it will.
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@ groove #1
“…Why not a park with children’s facilities, open green lawns for the eastern residents of the island…”
Because the taxpayer hasn’t got the money?
Why is it that any development is met with screams of ‘green space!’ ‘somewhere for the children to play!’ yet any mention of higher taxation would result in outcry too?
The developer is not greedy just because he doesn’t give you all his money; he’s in business to make money for him and or his shareholders.
If you really think there should be a green open space, by the land from him and give it away.
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“Why not a park with children’s facilities, open green lawns for the eastern residents of the island. Greedy!”
Why is it everyone else’s job to provide facilities for your children, as the previous commentor says he is in business, he’s providing homes for locally qualified people presumably like you, not UQ accommodation.
If you want somewhere for kids to play buy a house with a garden, everywhere we are told we must compromise for other people’s kids, isn’t it enough that I pay more tax cos I don’t have kids to subsidise other people’s kids schooling & healthcare. that’s without them having priority parking at the supermarket and tax breaks. If you choose to have children be responsible for them, don’t expect others to provide what you won’t.
If there is a need for the houses build them, if there isn’t they won’t sell anyway so what’s the problem. Too many people saying don’t build near me but provide me with ( cut price ) housing.
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I totally agree with the comments from No’s 2 and 3. Infact, where these new flats are to be built is across the road from the beach, so f you want somewhere for your children to play, and you live in that area, you have the beach right there, there is no need for a park on that site. I do think however that 5 stories is a bit too much, but 3 floors at maximum should not look too out of place.
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Park? There? What on earth for? It’s, at the most, 15 minutes walk from Jersey’s premier formal park, just down the road from the Rec and the F.B. Fields and slap opposite the best adventure playground imagineable, the sea.
If kids can’t take advantage of these existing facilities then they deserve to fester in their bedrooms playing electronic games.
As for the idea of all the other hard done by “eastern residents of the island” apparently needing the obligatory seedy corner with self propelled roundabout and some swings and slides…
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Simply an example. We do not need more development in St clement so said our constable. Will our infrastructure cope? I do hope that Antler homes will make these affordable, the Carlton development in Harve des Pas, starting price of £585,000 for TWO beds apartment, certainly not for first time buyers?! I am not really bothered if it gets built or not. In fact more than 5 stories would not be out of keeping with the area and maybe all the flats will really have stunning views! The marketing brochure will be interesting, can’t wait……………
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“maybe all the flats will really have stunning views!”
- until someone acquires the properties opposite and blocks the view!
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