‘Huge glass box will ruin the headland’

Thursday 5th January 2012, 2:57PM GMT.

Residents at the meeting yesterday

A PROPOSED three-story development on Petit Port hill was described by angry neighbours as a ‘huge glass box that will ruin the headland’ yesterday morning.

Concerns for privacy and about building in the protected green zone were other issues raised by the residents of the Petit Port Close residents committee at the meeting.

The group are opposing plans to demolish Ker du Pons, a large bungalow on Mont du Petit Port, St Brelade, to build the five flats and two houses.

Around ten people met to discuss the development, which borders the new Coastal National Park, including St Brelade Deputies John Young and Sean Power, St Brelade Centenier Jeff Hathaway and Senator Sarah Ferguson, who lives in the parish.

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Bob

January 5, 2012 at 3:05 pm

They haven’t got a hope of getting the plans through – but Dandara could probably get planning for 44 houses, a supermarket and a brothel on the site

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Posh Nimby

January 5, 2012 at 3:22 pm

“Around ten people met to discuss the development, which borders the new Coastal National Park, including St Brelade Deputies John Young and Sean Power, St Brelade Centenier Jeff Hathaway and Senator Sarah Ferguson, who lives in the parish”.

So of the 10 who attended the meeting 4 were politicians or centeniers, that leaves the 6 NIMBY’s who are privelaged to own property in this isolated beauty spot. If you don’t own the land you can’t dictate it’s use, hell it’s only going to be other rich privelaged people like yourselves inhabiting the new properties anyway, you people would stab your own brethren in the back – unbelievable.

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Toastedteacakes

January 5, 2012 at 4:56 pm

These angry folk from St. Brelades who are so cancerned about Jersey’s coastline did not raise any objection when the hideous box-shaped monstrosity of an incinerator was placed on the shoreline of Havre-des-Pas. A designer glass box would’ve been more welcome.

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Luke

January 5, 2012 at 9:32 pm

Does it really matter what anyone thinks or does ? NO
Wellcome to Jersey

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R B Bougourd

January 5, 2012 at 9:51 pm

When it’s built, will it be renamed Kers du Pons?

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Overpopulated

January 6, 2012 at 8:27 am

I don’t think many of us realized how awful the incinerator would look.

The real wake up call for and end to the hideous, unwanted, overdevelopment of this tiny island is summed up in one word

PORTELET

We must stop this ever happening again, so protest as much as you like people

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- Toastedteacakes
  
  January 6, 2012 at 4:49 pm
  
  Unfortunately, the anti-Portelet development folk are only ooncerned with what development takes place in their neck of the woods. I will not be supporting their whims.
  
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Nick

January 6, 2012 at 11:47 am

What these nimby people forget is the homes they live in were built on what was once a nice bit of green headland too, and probably looked like monstrosoties compared to what was there before,ie nothing!!

Bet they didn’t protest about other developments in the Island that weren’t near their homes!

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Concern actual Jerseyman

January 7, 2012 at 1:52 am

So sad that so many do not understand or appreciate the facts. Petit Port is a very special place and yes, it has houses on it which is a fact of life, but do we really have to fill every single space with ugly houses?? last time I was in Jersey and, yes it is my birth place, there has been absolutely no consideration to building control, I was disgusted with the state of what was once such a beautiful island. Waterfront is like driving past Daganham………. so sad we have let it go this way.. save Petit Port..

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- Julie
  
  January 9, 2012 at 6:47 am
  
  I too am Jersey born and have the same thoughts as you when I return.As for Dagenham I have never been there- is it really as ugly as the Waterfront??!!
  
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  - R B Bougourd
    
    January 9, 2012 at 5:59 pm
    
    I occasionally drive through/past Dagenham, Julie. Most of it is like a giant version of Grassett Park, with a hint of Jardin des Carreaux.
    
    The Waterfront looks more like Ilford.
    
    http://g.co/maps/6eg4h
    
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Andre

January 9, 2012 at 2:42 am

It is not about who built what elsewhere. It is about what is APPROPRIATE now. The large glass box format is now starting to look terribly predictable. So much of this “exciting new” architecture isn’t exciting or new at all. It looks like the same old design formats churned out over and over. The Noughties were a decade of shouty, ‘look-at-me’, ‘Iconic’ buildings. Now everybody has to have one, and they are the new cliche. What we really need now is an age of discrete buildings, both in style and scale, which respect their setting. That is of course what Planning should have been giving us in the first place. But the rush to replace dull 60′s houses with ‘worthy’ bit of new design had a big catch: the new buildings were mostly very much bigger than the originals. So any benefit from better design was promptly outweighed by the bigger impact of the new build. And the use of a famous name architect could be used as justification of a much bigger building. But the Noughties are over and someone should tell the developers. Modest, subtle, discrete designs can be just as sophisticated and interesting as the shouty stuff. And a place as beautiful as Jersey should have worked that out a long time ago.

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- Overpopulated
  
  January 9, 2012 at 8:57 am
  
  Andre, agree.
  
  With people losing their jobs, including finance related ones, on a daily basis. Who is going to buy all these new houses?
  
  It is not as if there are not thousands for sale currently.
  
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Zoro

January 9, 2012 at 11:19 am

This MUST be stopped….just look what was done to the old train station building at Corbiere…Cohen the Bararian allowed a travesty there….ruined forever…..do not let it happen any more….the natural charm and rustic ways of coastal areas particularly vulnerable to the onslaught and bad taste of ..lets be really honest avarice….when it comes to making profits people seem hell bent on ignoring taste and decorum…..rationalising arguments proffered usually start with mind numbing statements like…”.Iconic and modern in design,futuristic,and faux art deco”……lies lies and damn lies….it is the coast …leave it alone…for when it’s gone and the ill gotten gain has been spent it is ruined forever.

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noah

January 9, 2012 at 4:53 pm

no one has mentioned the monstrosity at St Catherines crossroads
I drive tourists around this island for a living , but find my self lost for words when tourists ask me about this building in particular.
How on earth was this passed ?????????

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- St Catherine's eyesore
  
  January 9, 2012 at 8:02 pm
  
  One word answers your question- Cohen
  
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Zoro

January 10, 2012 at 2:42 pm

11 Noah…one word answer…are you ready…..?
‘The Barbarian’

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Toastedteacakes

January 10, 2012 at 3:24 pm

Perhaps Senator Sarah Ferguson will overthrow the plans for petit port. She did not have any success rejecting the incinerator on the shoreline at Havre-des-Pas.

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John

January 10, 2012 at 8:54 pm

Its too late everyone, get out now whilst you can nothing can stop the mammon of the overdevelopment of this island, nothing, the money men have the politicians and planning department in their pocket, look at Plemont today, back to square one, they will grind you down until you cannot fight anymore as other things to do and it will get passed and the money men win again.

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