Portelet wins gold in national homes awards
Wednesday 30th November 2011, 2:58PM GMT.
The controversial Portelet development has won a gold award
THE controversial Portelet development has won a national award for its architecture and design.
The Dandara project won gold in the best apartment scheme for its development overlooking Portelet Bay in the What House? Awards – the longest established new homes awards in the UK.
Antler Homes won bronze in the same category for the Carlton apartments in Havre des Pas.
The What House? Awards, which have just celebrated their 30th year, reward house builders and developers, large and small, across 21 categories.
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How many have been sold though?
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Lets hear what the miserable old Jersey folks have to say about this story then..!?!?!
Be slightly less of you congratulating this award than there has been whining about it for the last 6 months no doubt.
Oh how it must hurt….. haha
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It certainly deserves an award
The most hideous
In the most inappropriate place
Destroying a once beautiful environment
Most over built and least sold
Take you pick
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Those in the UK don’t have to put up with desecrating an area of beauty because it doesn’t belong to them..
Unfortunately we do. I’d be glad to see it crumble.
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who won silver?
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The incinerator
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The Radisson got Bronze.
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Could win another one for best location as well.
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But Jersey is not in the UK.
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So a commercial web site, for property sales, based in the City of London decides that a major development company, based in the Isle of Man,, which is just the sort of company the site wants to attract, has decided that a series of flats, which other people have to live in the area of is worth an award. No conflicts of intrest then?
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What? Best apartments constructed from lego? That’s what it looks like from the bay!
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FUBAR
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Can you elaborate on your comment for someone who does notunderstand your vernacular
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FUBAR, venacular saying belived to have originated with US Military during the Vietnam War. Bowdelderiswed Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition. British Military equivalent SNAFU Situation Normal All Fouled Up. Hope this helps:-)
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Try and google the word FUBAR then you will understand
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I noticed from the full report that the chap who handed out the awards is a comedian. How very apt; I don’t think that anything else needs to be said!
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I don’t know how the whole project is awful certainly not in keeping with Jersey. When I tried to get a detached Garage in my Garden I was told no way it is not in keeping with the Jersey laws and by laws etc etc. Yet I had a detached house on a large site away from people and roads etc. The rules then were so tight and yet nowdays Dandara seem to get whatever they want I just wonder who like in Spain is getting the old Golden hand shake. And allowing these developements to take place.
Years ago you couldn’t even get a chance to put a shed in your Garden but now it seems if you have a share in Dandara you can’t put a foot wrong.
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Just remember that in the image above this article, the three apartment blocks on the skyline above the quarry and the two to the left were there long before this now national Gold Award winning development was constructed.They were passed by a previous committee and yet blamed on Freddie Cohen in a media led campaign, which damned him at every opportunity with images of Portelet in close up,merging the two entirely unrelated developments as one and dominating the letters page in the JEP in the run up to the elections.No wonder that Dandara wouldn’t make a comment to the JEP, after winning this national accolade.We’ve lost a good man and an expert politician to represent Jersey’s interests,both in the UK and abroad, as a result.
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Realist I recommend you get a new pair of glasses. The image above this article contains no view of any other earlier approved “three apartment blocks on the skyline above the quarry and the two to the left” – all of the blocks in the image are Portelet Heights as approved by former Senator Freddie. The scheme approved by his predecessor Planning Committee was substantially lower density, lower height, with green space between the blocks. Freddie promised a bigger Permit to Dandara if they went to a “UK Starchitect” and look what we got – a blot on the landscape with minimal space between the blocks (so much for “it will look better when scaffolding comes down”), higher buildings comprising a substantially bigger development (+35% approx) and buildings spread out onto undeveloped Green Zone land. Recommended for refusal by his own experts Planner. Those are the facts, amounting to bad, bad politics. Freddie even failed to sort out UK stopping LVCR before he departed the political scene. Thank you and goodbye Freddie.
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So the fractionally more attractive buildings weren’t approved by Freddie? He just approved the really ugly ones?
Hi Freddie, long time no see, how are you getting on?
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Well done Dandara, you now have carte blanche to build where ever you desire on the island of Jersey.
But not with my blessing, but I am sure that will not deter you in the slighest.
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Speechless.
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Perhaps the award is made in a sort of ironic, self-parodying sort of way. Something like giving Dr Shipman an award for services to medicine.
It begs the question as to who sits on the panel. Whoever it is is clearly out of touch with reality and is handing out an award which is, effectively, valueless but which will no doubt be shouted about “ad nauseum” by the developer. The cabuncle will now be an “award winning” carbuncle.
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The development has won an award for architecture and design.Has it actually won an award for sitting where it sits because from all the negative comments I have read over the months it is the location of these flats which upsets people more than the design of them and I include myself in this view.I don’t actually like the design but mainly because I am seeing it in the context of where it is which in my opinion is totally unsuitable for this type of development.
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It bears a striking resemblance to the design that my two-year old made out of his lego. Perhaps that is the basis of the award?
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One thing for sure; it will look even more dreadful in a few years time. Masonry doesn’t take long to become covered in grime and fungus. The sea air will accelerate the process and will corrode the underlying steel and the visible metal elements on the balcony etc. In this particular case, we can be glad of mother nature’s intervention and we can can only hope that the process of deterioration and eventual demolition takes place as quickly as possible.
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The What House? awards is obviously something which exists within the small and nepotistic world of architects and their monied cronies.
In other words, it is an inward looking and “mutual back slapping” award and not one to be taken seriously- indeed this particular “award” provides a prime example of this. The text is plain enough anyway; it is said to “reward” developers, so that really seals the case against it being anything other than laughable.
One other thing- Jersey is not in the UK so why do we have to saddled with the UK twaddle? Can’t they go to France, that’s not part of the UK, either. I think I know what the French would say, though, particularly in the given case. It would no doubt end with the French for “off”. Pity we don’t do the same here.
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It is worth remembering that this award is from an industry which has churned out endless miserable bits on non-architecture across the length and breadth of the U.K. The issue of whether this building is appropriate to the location is not a criteria which would have been part of the judges consideration. It has been judged strictly as a development, whereas most of us would question whether that sort of development should be there at all. It is a bit like a buger getting an award from the fast food industry. Yes, it is an award, but it still doesn’t make it that good for you!
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Do Dandara own WhatHouse?
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May be not,but they might have made them richer all of a sudden…
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No No, honest Guv it isn’t a hideously bungled conglomeration of poor taste city flats plonked in an idyllic setting thus ruining the coastline especially from the seaward side…it is in fact good, and some people we know said so too.pause for “rasberry” so there.
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Wise man say; man who build houses from origami on cliff see houses blow into sea. Wise man also say; he who build origami and get award from other unwise men passes water when houses blow over cliff.
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Let’s look at the facts:
1. The development looks awful;
2. Most people in Jersey think that it looks awful;
3. Cohen conceded, when seeking election, that things should have been done differently;
4. The award relates to the uk;
5. Jersey is not in the UK
6.The development looks awful.
7. The award is not recognised by anyone except architects and their cronies.
8. Those making the award are, in terms of “profession” and professional circles, one and the same as those receiving the award.
9. The award is not something which accords with popular opinion. It is a joke award and, as such, not to be taken seriously.
10. The development looks awful. Those “winning” the “award” are kidding themselves if they think that they have won anything.
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Keep it “local” good sense of irony the Jersey beans,supporting a good old “local” Irish firm.
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But why, oh why do they do it??!!
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well done to the parish of portlet!! it looks beautiful. I would love to come and live in such a lovely village. I do hope Jersey keeps up with the good work and carries on building for a better tomorrow.
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1 – Portlet is a small bay, not a parish
2 – This is not a village, it is a grotesque over development of previously attractive area.
You want to buy one – feel free, if you have between £700k and £2.5million I am sure there are plenty to choose from.
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