Building of Local Interest: Rose Cottage, Rue du Hucquet, St. Martin.

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A decision made (26/09/2008 regarding: Building of Local Interest: Rose Cottage, Rue du Hucquet, St. Martin.

Decision Ref:	MD–PE–2008-0215
Subject:	Register as a Building of Local Interest Rose Cottage, Rue du Hucquet, St. Martin
Decision Summary Title:	DS - Register as a Building of Local Interest Rose Cottage, Rue du Hucquet, St. Martin
DS Author:	Kevin Pilley – Assistant Director
DS Date:	17 September 2008	DS Status:	Public
Written Report Title:	WR – Register as a Building of Local Interest Rose Cottage, Rue du Hucquet, St. Martin
WR Author:	Kevin Pilley – Assistant Director
WR Date	17 September 2008	WR Status:	Public
Oral Rapporteur:	Kevin Pilley – Assistant Director/ Roger Hills – Head of Historic Buildings (Jersey Heritage)
Decision(s):	The Minister for Planning and Environment determined that Rose Cottage, Rue du Hucquet, St. Martin be added to the Register of Buildings and Sites of Architectural, Archaeological and Historical Importance in Jersey as a Building of Local Interest.
Reason(s) for Decision:	The particular interest of Rose Cottage, Rue du Hucquet, St. Martin, as identified and described in the report and relative to the published criteria for selection, justifies its inclusion on Register of Buildings and Sites of Architectural, Archaeological and Historical Importance in Jersey as a BLI and; it accords with the States Strategic Plan commitment of protecting and sympathetically managing the Island’s built heritage assets.
Legal and Resource Implications:	The inclusion of buildings and places in the Register of Buildings and Sites of Architectural, Archaeological and Historical Importance in Jersey is consistent with the purposes of the Planning and Building (Jersey) Law 2002.
Action required:	Notify the owner Update the Register of Buildings and Sites of Architectural, Archaeological and Historical Importance in Jersey Notify Development Control
Signature:
Position:	Minister for Planning and Environment
Date Signed:		Date of Decision (If different to Date Signed):

Building of Local Interest: Rose Cottage, Rue du Hucquet, St. Martin.

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PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT

Rose Cottage, Rue du Hucquet, St. Martin

Purpose of the Report

To seek to confirm the Minister’s intention to add Rose Cottage, Rue du Hucquet, St. Martin to the Register of Buildings and Sites of Architectural, Archaeological and Historical Importance in Jersey as a Building of Local Interest (BLI).

Background and discussion

The Minister previously considered a report on the matter prepared by Jersey Heritage dated 10 June 2008 and determined that this building and place was of sufficient interest to warrant its addition to the Register of Buildings and Sites of Architectural, Archaeological and Historical Importance in Jersey as a BLI. A notice of the Minister’s intent to add this site to the Register as a BLI was served on the owner of the property on 11 August 2008 in order to provide an opportunity for representations to be made.

A representation was received on 04 September 2008 which raises a number of issues, some of which are not material to the Minister’s consideration of the building’s particular architectural and/or historic interest (@ points 1-3) and which are more appropriately considered within the context of any planning application. Those that are material to the potential registration of the building (@ points 4-6) are addressed by the supplementary report prepared by Jersey Heritage dated 08 September 2008.

Legal and resource implications

The inclusion of buildings and places in the Register of Buildings and Sites of Architectural, Archaeological and Historical Importance in Jersey is consistent with the purposes of the Planning and Building (Jersey) Law 2002.

Recommendation

On the basis of the recommendation of Jersey Heritage to add Rose Cottage, Rue du Hucquet, St. Martin to the Register of Buildings and Sites of Architectural, Archaeological and Historical Importance in Jersey as a Building of Local Interest, which is sustained having regard to the representation made, the Minister is further recommended to confirm the addition of this building and place to the Register as a BLI.

Reason(s) for Decision

The particular interest of Rose Cottage, Rue du Hucquet, St. Martin, as identified and described in the report and relative to the published criteria for selection, justifies its inclusion on Register of Buildings and Sites of Architectural, Archaeological and Historical Importance in Jersey as a BLI, and;

It accords with the States Strategic Plan commitment of protecting and sympathetically managing the Island’s built heritage assets.

Action Required

Notify the owner
Update the Register of Buildings and Sites of Architectural, Archaeological and Historical Importance in Jersey
Notify Development Control

Written by:

Kevin Pilley

Assistant Director (Policy and Projects)

Approved by:

Peter Thorne

Director (Planning and Building Services)

Attachments: JH report (10 June 2008);

plan;

assessment form (07 May 2008)

photographs

representation dated 04 September 2008;

JH supplementary report (08 September 2008);

File ref MN0285

Date 17/09/2008

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