Senator Cohen fulfilling his promise to the electorate

[man in the street]

one thing about flawed glass, is that unless you get real close to it you cannot see the flaws.
 can you  imagine it some  glass freak, peering thru your window to see the flaws.
i have one word for this kind of thing, cobblers.
were you making ,double glazed panes , or did the fools make you use single panes.
 they will not have the pain of  the electric bill from the  heat escaping.
 or are they stippulating the use of coal and wood for heating?

[Fritz]

The silly thing about it is that the folk who produced the original, "Flawed glass", did not intend it to be flawed.
The same can be said about some of the old buildings that are, "Protected", by idiots who know feck all about building.

"Broken-backed", roofs that look pretty were not originally intended to look like that.
They were badly built/designed. "Simples".

[Chevalier Blanc]

In the JEP the other day it reported that Cohen would like to sale the Jersey Planning Office Building and have luxury apartments built there. These would not be for the ordinary people of Jersey or first time buyers but for the rich because of the view it gives.
Go back to the States houses at the top of Pier Road and then look to see where the car park is. The car park has the best views over the whole of St. Aubin's Bay and St. Helier Harbours.
Now should that have been done the other way around? It would also mean that you would not have to walk as far to your parked car and you would not see the great block of concrete as you look towards Fort Regent. So the same rules applied even in those days. States Housing to be kept out of sight and only the rich to have lovely views.

[rogueelement]

In the JEP the other day it reported that Cohen would like to sale the Jersey Planning Office Building and have luxury apartments built there. These would not be for the ordinary people of Jersey or first time buyers but for the rich because of the view it gives.
Go back to the States houses at the top of Pier Road and then look to see where the car park is. The car park has the best views over the whole of St. Aubin's Bay and St. Helier Harbours.
Now should that have been done the other way around? It would also mean that you would not have to walk as far to your parked car and you would not see the great block of concrete as you look towards Fort Regent. So the same rules applied even in those days. States Housing to be kept out of sight and only the rich to have lovely views.

Or car parks you say.
At South Hill opposite the judo hall there are some lovely flats for the elderly of Jersey with magnificent views.......but really whats the point ?? they can only see 40 yards???
not being cruel , just realistic.

[boatyboy]

Is it not the case that Freddy just before his election to the States, suffered anti- Jewish sentiments scrawled in black paint. Any reasonable person would be appalled.

I may be wrong but the ruining of Jersey's coastline by continued over development has made Freddie Cohen probably the most hated politician, who has at least has the honesty to admit he is conflicted being the Minister for the Environment and also the Planning Minister. Now of course brother in arms Philip Ozouf bestowed  the office of Foreign Minister on Senator Freddie.

Senator Cohen is also on record as saying he has too much power and complaints about his planning department are  fifty percent correct,  but does nothing about these problems that result in significant change.

Even more interesting is one day after a nasty phone call ( making front page of the JEP ) he wants sympathy. The next day we are informed he wants to push ahead with the building of the financial quarter. If reader................ you go back to the Harcourt development, it was to cost £320 million by Harcourt, Freddie reckons the cost to be £120 million, which makes it look like a cheap deal. Either it is a bargain or this is the start of the pie in the sky dream of a senator with far to much power that will lead to massive overspends creating another big black hole to add to the States already £100 million overspend. This will bankrupt Jersey and just for good measure lose a desperately needed  car park.

Can you believe we put up with this ?

JEP.

THREE major finance firms are considering investing in as-yet unbuilt new £120m premises at the Waterfront that could net the States £6m per year, Environment Minister Freddie Cohen told the States yesterday.
The Senator made the announcement in a speech urging them to maintain support for developing a major new finance district on the Esplanade car park site.

http://www.thisisjersey.com/2011/05/19/minister-urges-house-to-back-esplanade-financial-district/

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[boatyboy]

Planet Jersey is under new and honourable management and I have been asked to prove what I had written below.

Fair enough,  I may not be Rico Sorda who is an excellent researcher, but facts can look after themselves, and is not transparent and accurate information important, certainly.

The post in question.

Senator Cohen is also on record as saying he has too much power and complaints about his planning department are fifty percent correct, but does nothing about these problems that result in significant change.

http://planetjersey.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,330.msg50954.html#msg50954

Proof.

Taken from Reg's skips report  page 151  - part of a log of a  telephone conversation which was taped between Ben Shenton and Freddie Cohen. It is my understanding that half means fifty percent as written above, in my original post.

http://www.statesassembly.gov.je/frame.asp

2010. Report number 118. on  Page - 151.

FC : Freddie Cohen
BS:  Ben Shenton.


FC: Oh, right. It is all a bit depressing being back at work I am afraid. I am not
enjoying it.

BS: No. Well, you cannot get away, that is the only problem. I had people
phoning me up on Christmas Eve with problems of this, that and the other.

FC: I get people phoning me all the time about planning applications and it is
always the same story. They have been let down by the Department, that
everything is too slow, the Department is hopeless and it is quite difficult to
deal with because half of the complaints are valid and the other half are just...
they are trying it on.

BS: Yes, yes. It must be a nightmare for you. I mean, I get a fair few complaints
about Health but you just have to sort of go through the processes.


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[boatyboy]

Are these people living in a different parallel universe ?

 I fully accept they like everyone must make a living, but to ask children to build the best skyscraper, is this not  architectural grooming of the innocent on a small island. The theme this year with Portlet (had to be mentioned ) and the financial quarter is about right but kept quiet for obvious reasons.

They also forgot to mention that building on green fields, sacrificing an extremely good esplanade car park, and the creation out of the disliked and mistrusted WEB into Jersey Development ltd able to butcher any public land ( with the permission of a couple of committees sworn to secrecy ) means that the mood of the public is sour when it comes to even more concrete and glass.

CTV.

It is Jersey Architecture Week and the short listed entries for the Jersey design awards have gone on show at Liberty Wharf.

Islanders will be able to vote for their favourite in the People's Choice Award.

The weeks activity includes open competitions, exhibitions, planning surgeries and open building tours when people will have the chance to see inside some locally designed developments like the Energy from Waste Plant and Jersey Archive.

The Association of Jersey Architects have also launched a competition entitled, Reach for the skies!, where children from various local schools will have a chance to have their entries displayed and win prizes for building the best skyscraper.

Paul Harding, President of the AJA said: "Jersey Architecture Week is a great chance for the island to celebrate local achievement and reflect on the changing nature of design in Jersey.

The theme this year reflects the times we are in, and is also about remembering that good design does not have to mean expensive design."

The Jersey Architectural Design Awards evening is on Friday the 24th June at the Jersey Arts Centre.

http://www.channelonline.tv/channelonline_jerseynews/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=494675

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[rogueelement]

Lack of affordable housing in Jersey !!
How about lack of people who can afford a house in Jersey?
There is no way to go backwards , unless you have one of them Delorean Cars , any house built to satisfy "cheap" demand ,would within years be sold at market value giving the owner a couple of hundred grand profit ,if people cannot afford a flat at £250 k how on earth are they going to be able to afford a house at £400k?
Unless there is some sort of revolution , it aint happening.


Please prove this last statement or remove it or I shall.       Removed - you had                       

                                                                                              adequate warning.   

[Fritz]

Where the heck does the term, "Affordable Housing", come from?
All housing is ,"Affordable", to someone.
I did some work for a local developer when the term ,"Affordable", was attached to the planning remit. The figure bandied around at the time was £200,000 for a three-bedroom house.
The developer set the price at £199,500 and got permission to build.(First -time buyers only).
The ,"First-time buyers", on the small estate were, the architect,s son and daughter, the company secretary,s son, the developer,s chauffeur, the developer,s own three grandkids and a young building control officer.

Within a year the houses were sold on for over £350,000.

No corruption in planning eh?

[boatyboy]

After watching the reaction of at least two failed candidates from about a mtr away in the past, both who could not believe the public voted them out of office, were clearly shocked at being dragged into the real world, as they lived in a fairytale place far removed from earth. Is Freddie Cohen suffering the same delusion's?

I always though that, Freddie Cohen would  stand again. On  pre-election news previously, he went down the road of publishing material highlighting he is Jewish and receiving abuse ( and sympathy ). Further he is right hand man and supporter to Phillip Ozouf desperate to become Chief Minister. Finally and in my opinion, it would not be at all democratic to have a non elected person flying around the world on taxpayers money and not voted in representing Jersey as a member of the Government.

To add further fuel to the debate, a blogger asks the question.

Hi Trev

I hear you offered Freddie Cohen a bet that he will be standing after all and that he wouldn't take the bet on. I reckon that says you have got it right? Any news?

Mark
5 August 2011 14:42

REPY.

Deputy Trevor Pitman said...

In answer to the above question.

Yes, I did bet Freddie a pint that he would end up standing and I tell all readers right here that he will. Fact.

You are right though - he didn't accept the bet. My crystal ball tells me that Freddie will receive 'a deputation' from 'the people' begging him not to retire the week before nominations.

Watch this space...

5 August 2011 14:53

http://thebaldtruthjersey.blogspot.com/2011/08/never-mind-mr-bean-heres-e-mail-truly.html#comments

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[Chevalier Blanc]

Surely they would not have Cohen going around the world for us if he is not a states Member.
That would just prove that Ozouf and the rest of the establishment party are taking us all for complete idiots. If that were the case then i say pick up the pitch forks and march onto the Royal square forthwith.
God i only hope that the people come out to vote in October for all our sakes.

[imacrappaud]

Surely they would not have Cohen going around the world for us if he is not a states Member.
That would just prove that Ozouf and the rest of the establishment party are taking us all for complete idiots. If that were the case then i say pick up the pitch forks and march onto the Royal square forthwith.
God i only hope that the people come out to vote in October for all our sakes.

That was a job for the boy/s if ever there was one.

[boatyboy]

FREDDIE COHEN WILL BE STANDING IN THE SENATORIAL ELECTIONS

Says Ted Vibert

DESPITE THE ANNOUNCEMENT made by him, some time ago, that Senator Cohen would not be standing in the October Senatorial elections I have it on very good authority that he will be putting himself forward after all. Why? Because he really is enjoying tripping around the world at the taxpayers expense promoting Jersey and "helping inform governments that we are really good guys and we don't encourage tax avoiders to our shores and we keep to the rules".

Expect to read shortly that a deputation of supporters called on him at his palatial home in St. John and begged him to stand again and he received so many letters and e mails imploring him to face another election he felt duty bound to heed their wishes.

So what are these trips of his all about? Well, a delegation has been to India to sign a tax information agreement which could have been signed in London. The trouble is India, which is cracking down on tax avoidance by its wealthy companies and individuals, didn't think the tax information exchange agreement was worth the paper it was written on and wanted to toughen it up. So they refused to sign it.

http://tedvibert.blogspot.com/

[Calimachon]

Promises, promises indeed!  Faux pas after Faux pas!  Ooops sorry about Portelet 'fait accompli' now can't go back sorry...... won't happen again (laughs up sleeve......Silly mushrooms.)
 
The Government we deserve - Yes?

I wonder how many people have become disenfranchised from Jersey politics and disenchanted with the self serving hypocrits who purport to be christians who run religious organisations in the island. 

As an aside maybe India should be more concerned about toughening up the illegal dealing of Zimbabwean diamonds in Surat before they request a toughening up of any agreements we may have to offer regarding tax.    Come to think of it now that the Zimbabwean authorities have discovered an abundance of diamonds in the Marange region it might be more worthwhile for the Western Democracies to intervene on humanitarian grounds thereby disguising the true reason......DIAMONDS.  As they did in Iraq when we all now realise it was to gain access to oil and lucrative development opportunities for favoured companies and organisations.

[boatyboy]

Senator Cohen gets praised in a letter in the JEP and then the letter gets posted on their website unlike far better letters on different subjects.

Just to update the author if I may,  in one area of his letter he says

Quote.

Neither of these planning permissions were originally granted by Senator Cohen who, in the case of Portelet, took great care to require amended schemes that improved on the originally approved design – and good design is where Senator Cohen has focused his attention throughout his time as Planning Minister.

Unquote

This is of course true, however the old holiday village may have been a derelict eyesore close up, and had permission originally granted  pre - Senator Cohens office however what was built there Senator Cohen signed off.

In my opinion a low lying development with his hat on as environmental minister should have taken the lead rather than putting big city, ultra modern non environmentally friendly houses which would have nestled into the coastline rather than all but destroying it.

Clearly Freddie Cohen is looking to stand again whatever is said, expect more (spin) stories and uptalk in the media.

For those of you that are Freddie Cohen fans click on link to see full advert sorry I mean personal letter from the heart. 

http://www.thisisjersey.com/2011/08/25/senator-cohen-improved-our-built-environment/

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