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COM-mentator

Question: How many of these ‘Offices’ will be taken up by NEW companies to the island?

Answer: very few.

The existing companies are looking at moving from disparate and multiple sites to one location. Therefore although 721000 square feet of office space is in the pipeline, how much is released, and more importantly what will happen with these offices – more apartments? like Don Road/Queens House – formerly Volaw?

All three of these should not be given permission, 1 preferably 2 at most.

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Confused

Not sure that BQ has reflected what Daniels is quoted as saying. Top companies do want more top graded offices don’t they? And those in several locations do want to consolidate, don’t they? Thus, there is a need for new, top graded offices, but BQ’s headline and summation distorts what Daniels has said somewhat.

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Willy Fayling

Happy Christmas to all you witless blog trolls, who continue to delight us with your hapless lack of insight and wisdom. Let’s face it COM-mentator – you would struggle to explain an egg and spoon race, let alone the machinations of the Council of Ministers, to which you appear to aspire to. Are you an unemployed juvenile, or do you not recall that when the finance industry arrived in the 1970′s there was such a gross lack of office space that much of St Helier’s residential accommodation was swiftly turned over in use to cater for the higher rental office sector. Over time, the occupiers of these converted “office premises” have become increasingly desperate to move into purpose built office buildings. These are the constructions that allow extra space below the floor and above the ceiling to plumb in all the fibre optic and electronic data cabling, plus air con etc. that modern offices require. Indeed it’s even more demanding now that leading companies want to lease or buy environmentally compliant premises.
Of course the old offices are going to be reinstated to their original residential status, as there is a desperate need for accommodation of all types. What’s the problem with living in Don Road? Perhaps you would rather a few more green fields disappear under concrete. And before you and the other non-expert “Overpopulated” start dishing out the immigrant moan, just reflect on the vast number of local young people who would like homes of their own, not to mention the 60 percent of locally born graduates who do not return to work here but, nevertheless, retain their local housing qualifications and could turn up any time they felt like returning.
You glib “commentators” don’t understand the half of it, so why start the one finger typing until you have accomplished a modicum of accurate research and have established a good idea of what you are talking about?
“Confused” actually understood the report. Top companies want top grade offices, in other words, new state-of-the-art premises and not the old rubbish they have been offered for the last several decades.
I suggest you consider a New Year’s resolution to ensure that you engage brain BEFORE attempting to enlighten us with your brilliant insights into local life.
Happy New Year.
Willy Fayling

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