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Two agricultural fields next to Jersey College for Girls and its Prep school will be turned to a “break-out space” for students, if Planning agree.
The school has applied to change the use of the fields from “agricultural to outdoor educational amenity space associated with associated boundary treatment and landscaping.”
The latest Island Plan, approved earlier this year, “safeguards” the fields for educational use, specifically for “an outdoor amenity space” to serve JCG and JCP.
A design statement accompanying the application states: “The proposal is to utilise Fields S800 and S801 for outdoor educational amenity use. The principle is to provide an informal “break out” space to benefit the pupil’s wellbeing and mental health.
“The space would be used for socialising, informal meetings, informal games, ecological study, and a space for staff and students to get some fresh air away from the pressure of the school environment. Pupils using the fields would be supervised.”
Pictured: The fields in question form the rectangular section and not the long finger to the right.
It adds: “No level changes are proposed. The fields would be sown with a grass mix suitable for the proposed use. The proposal use is not playing fields. Due to the topography / slope of the land would not be suitable for ball sports.”
Although the fields will be simply become grass, a 2m-high green wire-mesh fence will be erected around about three-quarters of the field, if approved.
A 1m-high, 3.5m-wide grass bank will also be built along the eastern boundary of the field, extending along the boundary with Palace Close to the north and a field to the south.
A native hedgerow will be planted on the bank on the outer edge of the fence, which will screen the fence when mature.
Other sites safeguarded in the Island Plan are:
Grainville School: Field S367, St Saviour - conditional on agricultural access being maintained to the surrounding fields;
Mont à L’Abbé School: field H1256, St Helier;
Haute Vallée School: Part of field H1219, St Helier;
First Tower School: Field H1533, St Helier;
St John’s School: Part of field J525, St John;
Les Landes School: Part of field 782, St Ouen;
Jersey Gas Site: Tunnell Street, St. Helier.
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