Controversial development schemes before Planning
Monday 15th March 2010, 2:56PM GMT.
The plans for Chalet du Coleron include a three-storey glass residential extension
CONTROVERSIAL plans to extend an 18th century building in a prime St Brelade coastal location are beng considered by Planning on Thursday.
David and Caroline Phillips want to renovate the historic magasin and guardhouse Chalet du Coleron, overlooking St Brelade’s Bay, while adding a three-storey glass residential extension. The National Trust for Jersey has previously objected to the plans, which they say are ‘substantial, out of proportion and inappropriate’.
Also on the agenda is an application to demolish the bungalow La Cotte, opposite the Smugglers Inn in St Brelade, to build a two-storey four-bedroom house.
And Hotel des Pierres owner Mick Cotillard is trying for a third time to get permission to convert the empty hotel into nine flats. He had his plans to demolish the hotel and build seven flats rejected and a scheme to renovate the hotel and build ten flats also refused.
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Excellent site for another incinerator, the one at Havre-des-Pas will have only a 15 year span.
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O.K. look at the picture and surrounding natural beauty..A three story glass structure..? where are these peoples heads,just look at that hideous thing at Corbiere where once stood a quaint little end of the line railway terminus .All granite and complete…now Las Vegas meets architectural Godzilla….as for the Thai Hookers joint proposed for Wolfs caves..I just despair…and oppoaite the smugglers.should not be allowed to go higher as it would be out of keeping with the area and other buildings….GREED..GREED…GREED.
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Another ugly, inappropriate and hideous ‘iconic’ building I would imagine.
There are loads of expensive properties for sale currently – like the thing at Corbiere which has been for sale for ages – obviously not ‘iconic’ enough.
We do not need any more thank you.
PS love the Thai hookers joint!!
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@ Overpopulated #3
“…Another ugly, inappropriate and hideous ‘iconic’ building I would imagine…”
Ugly and hideous to you might be beautiful to the next person.
Is it appropriate?
Appropriate: from the Latin appropriatus, past participle of approprio (“‘to make one’s own’”), from ad (“‘to’”) + proprio (“‘to make one’s own’”), from proprius (“‘one’s own, private’”).
(from wikitionary.org)
If the National Trust, or you want appropriate then it sounds to me like you must make it your own; offer the owner a fair sum for it, then you can make it as appropriate as you want.
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If my opinion is so out of line, how come there are quite a few multi million ugly new properties for sale, and they have been for sale for quite a long time. If they were so desirable surely someone wealthy would have signed that cheque for £2.5 million and bought one of them, as opposed to standing empty.
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@ Overpopulated #5
Would you accept that you were wrong about the beauty of these properties if they were sold at £10m?
I don’t have any problem separating the asking price of a property from the beauty; if I had the money I’d love to purchase that ‘ugly’ property at Corbiere for £2.5m
Equally I think the properties built as affordable housing around the island are often ‘ugly’, should they be accepted just because they’re cheap? Personally I don’t think so, it’s the housing estates that I think spoil Jersey, not the individual houses like those discussed here.
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Sorry No 6 have you seen the little chapel by Springside, Trinity – it is the just about the most unattractive property in the island for £2 million or 20 for that matter. It is not the cost it is the look/design.
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@ Overpopulated #7
I respect your opinion and preference of and for a properties beauty, but I really can’t agree that this is the reason properties do not sell. I happen to really like the Corbiere property that’s for sale at £2.5M, so it’s beauty isn’t the issue, it’s the price. I am convinced that if that property was offered at £500K, many of those in the market at that price would choose it over all the other properties of varying styles at that price.
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