Noirmont residents lose fight against development
Friday 21st January 2011, 2:56PM GMT.
Residents' protests were unsuccessful
PROTESTERS have failed to stop a developer building on a field at Noirmont overlooking Ouaisné and St Brelade.
Environment Minister Freddie Cohen announced yesterday that one house could be built on Field 621, which is on the right when travelling south between Woodbine stores and the turning to Ouaisné.
Senator Cohen said that he had ensured that the modern-looking building would be the work of ‘an excellent local architect’. And he insisted that he had listened to the concerns of campaigners, including several neighbours, and stipulated that the building should not block out the views over Ouaisné from the road.
The news has been greeted with dismay by the protesters. Neighbour Andrew Thompson said that after seven years of campaigning, it was a sad day.
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Can we put the Odeon there?
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I wonder whats going on here. Its rather concerning how Freddie Cohen passes so many developments that have been under scruting for years or previously refused. In Cohen’s short term at planning he has passed an amazing number of developments on listed sites, fields, agricultural land etc, sites that have always been refused permission before. Listed buildings have been changed and developed also by his approvals. Hmmm… Strange. And this guy is not even a Jersey man or birth connected to Jersey, as with most developers. It sure seems to be that “its not what you know, its who you know”! Very questionable.
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So the NIMBY’s lose, if you want to retain natural beauty and prevent a house being built on a lovely green site – no chance.
If you want to protect the ugliest building in Jersey that is falling apart and has a stinking rat infested interior – no problem.
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Put the odeon there its a listed work of architecture.
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Lost a green field in an important environmentally protected area but kept the Odeon as an empty a derelict reminder of a drab prefabricated monolith of the 1950’s. In planning and heritage terminology “a no brainer”.
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Another travesty….usual story money talks..B/S walks
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modern looking building.
will it be like the one on the way to st catherine just before l’hopital. i hope so because this one blends in perfectly with the surroundings
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Agree with all the comments above 1 to 4. I despair at the planning decision’s that are made by the so called Enviorment Minster ( that name is a joke for a start )God how much longer do we have to put up with him.
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I bet this will be yet another one of those awful buildings “du jour”. Hideous floor-to-3rd floor ceiling window jobs that Cohen has a habit of allowing every time there is a sniff of sea air in the vicinity.
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Fact; the site was approved for ‘one dwelling’ long before Freddie became top boy at Planning!
Fact; Its hardly a ‘green field site’, its part of a ‘ribbon development’ surrounded by other houses.
Fact; The only reason it has taken so long is that the developer was the infamous David Shepherd (Janvrin Farm)
Fact; Freddie has got to much power and major decisions should be taken by a Panel/committee, but Freddie pointed this out years ago and nothings happened Eh!
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what a bunch of whinging Nimbys, does anyone else care that another house will now be built next door to their own massive houses. 7 years of campaigning!!!!! astonishing? what a complete waste of time – surely there was something more useful they could have been doing! these people need to get over it and move on, their lives will hardly be devastated by this – get some perspective! what a complete non-story, come on JEP, there must be some real news out there.
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Cohen is single handedly destroying the natural beauty of our Island, that can not be denied. I’m a Jerseyman born and bred and it makes me very sad to look at how the island has been ravaged by one man’s wreckless decisions. Please, for future generations sake, lets get rid of this man and get someone to replace him who actually has Jersey’s best interest at heart, before it’s too late.
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This is exactly the same as the bailiff being conflicted with judiciary and politics…how the hell can you be planning minister and environment minister…it is hopelessly conflicted …like all the other cozy and incestuous arrangements that are allowed to exist as though it was all respectable and o.k. well it’s not …then they get all defensive and ruffled when any fair and level headed mortal points it out…The Kings suit of clothes story regularly comes to mind.
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Noah
modern looking building.
will it be like the one on the way to st catherine just before l’hopital
I agree Noah, what was Amy’s Cottage is now a disgrace it looks like a packing shed.
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I shake my head every time I walk past what used to be Amy’s Cottage and see the disgusting mess that is there now
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Well you guys are right about that awful place at St.Catherine…Freddy proved to me on that one alone that he neither has the architectural eye that he fancies himself as having nor is he remotely in touch with the environment….totally insensitive building,wrong style wrong shape, wrong place…He most definitely is the wrong man in the wrong job….
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