I pointed this out on this forum a while back. I don't know where people ever got the idea that Dandara had any involvement in the "West of Albert" site.
Those blue and white apartments were built by Spie Batignolles - this was written on a hoarding sign in plain view, for about 2 years.
The only other existing apartment block, at the Waterfront, was/is owned and built by Charles Le Quesne builders. That's the one with a Penthouse on top, which I think is still vacant.
Dandara have one plot down there, which is being built on now. They acquired that plot via some exchange deal for land they bought from Des Pas Holdings(?) at the La Collette reclamation site. The States of Jersey had no choice but to "give" them the Waterfront plot, because they had to have the land at La Collette. Just like a game of monopoly...
Thanks danrok
Unfourtunatly I am not perfect, lol, am going to have to work on that one. I will never open my mouth again without caring out full research and having the proof for anything I say first in my hands. But I do get very upset that our children are having to leave the island due to the state of things.
In case you didn't here my ideas/questions on Radio Jersey I have now typed them out and below is the copy for you, if you have any ideas or comments on mine let me know. There has to be a way we can stop the mass exiduse of Jersey Children/people in general. I for one really do care.
1. Tax relief on mortgage interest needs to go up to a much higher realistic level to support for the first time buyer. (Tax relief could be capped and less mortgage interest relief given to the luxury priced properties to balance things out.)
2. Restrict the future demand through a controlled immigration policy. (Restrict the huge population growth that has is allowed to enter the island, this just has to be capped at a much lower level.)
3. Promote construction by locally based construction companies. (Not the likes of Dandara.)
4. Encourage self build. (Take the GST off building materials for self builders and small local builders.)
5. Lower the cost of conveyancing and permit more flexible mortgages. (For example: The ones were you can use your savings against your borrowings to reduce your interest payments should be introduced into the island especially on a States loan scheme.)
6. Sell off existing States Housing to tenants at reduced rates. Use something along the lines of the ‘Right to Buy’ in England were the deposit equals the rent that has already been paid by the tenant to the Housing Department. (A penalty clause for let’s say ten years should be put in place to stop speculators trying to cash in and resell the property too quickly at full value.)
7. Rezone the land necessary for local people to self build. (Not just rezone for the big development companies who build undesirable clusters of properties in Town or in the countryside and will make yet more unsightly carbuncle ghettos that are not good family homes for local people. The big development companies produce prohibitally expensive shoe boxes that no local family wants!)
8. Housing should not be selling the older housing stock (virtually giving away) at a reduce rate to housing trusts, who then charge higher rents to tenants than housing especially as housing still end up paying the difference back in rent rebates. (Had the properties that Senator Terry le Main allowed to go to housing trusts been sold to the tenants at this reduced rate instead then I feel everyone would have a big shock at how much money the States would have saved and actually made. I dare any States member to tally the facts and figures of this one up and do a report on it using the time frame of Senator Terry Le Mains reign as Housing Minister. Plus of course the figures on how many first time buyers this would have accommodated.)
9. Stop planning by personality, and cut the price or make it free to apply for planning permission/appeals for the local small builders and those who are applying for first time buyer self build properties on their own land.
