A sign of the difficult times
Saturday 23rd April 2011, 2:56PM BST.
Barry Jenkins outside Fotosound in Charing Cross
A TOWN trader who fought a seven-month battle to get a six-foot temporary sign approved says that the planning system is a farce.
Barry Jenkins, who runs Fotosound in Charing Cross, says that rather than helping to promote businesses, the States are just getting in the way.
He had to put a formal application into Planning for the temporary sign, which advertises promotions in the store, and says he had to jump through hoops to appease the Planning and Transport departments.
While Mr Jenkins had support from the Parish of St Helier, the departments were concerned that the sign would be a hazard for pedestrians.
Environment Minister Freddie Cohen said that he sympathised with Mr Jenkins – and added that new rules out in the next few weeks would simplify the way that signage applications were handled and would exempt most signage.
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Jersey has some departments that really help Jersey business.
This is balanced by the huge difficulty of dealing with the other departments which leave you with the impression that they will do everything to stop you doing business in Jersey.
This has led the paranoid to believe this is an intentional arrangement put in place by those in power to control business in Jersey.
Myself I think it is a by product of a Civil Service with too many staff and not enough to do which is slowly killing small business in Jersey. There is then no motivation for those with power and large businesses to change this.
It takes a lot of determination and patience to even got the permission to undertake a business. It takes so long to go from conception to implementation I have started thinking 6 months ahead where possible and discarding any business opportunities which will be past in 6 months.
Jersey businesses simply cannot react or adapt fast enough to be competitive.
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barry , what about a person with a sandwichboard( sign of the times) , its portable , although iwould not want to try running away in it if the powers that be decended.
as for hazzards in the street , the biggest hazzard is people with i pods wondering about .
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How is it that a local shop cannot erect a “temporary” 6ft advertisement in an a town area with lots of similar signs whereas a building firm can erect a massive “permanent” contemporary multi property condominium on a headland above a single room martello tower? This is more evidence of a planning system which is either biased or so horribly convoluted that no reasonable islander can be expected to understand.
PLANNING STOP RUINING MY ISLAND
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Colomberie
Look at all the hazards along that street, there are even cars parked during working days on the pavement outside hairdresser, whats good for some why not for others. I would have thought a car far more hazardous.
What about letter boxes as well.
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I’m no marketing expert – but have to say – was it really worth it?
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Ironically the delay has probably given the shop far more advertising than they could have possibly wished for!
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A glowing example of why we have too many destructive civil service jobsworths strangling the goose that feeds them…a dept headed by the arch entertainer and C.O.M minister aka Freddie and the dreamers with hits like “I’m telling you now” a jaunty little dictatorial number followed by “If you’re gonna make a fool of somebody…which should have the last word altered to ‘everybody’and the chart topping ‘You were made for me’ an egocentric little ditty that implies not a little omnipotence.
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