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1 - 4 Fauxbie Villas, St. Saviour's Road, St. Helier: Notice of Intention not to List

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A decision made 6 October 2014:

Decision Summary

 

Planning and Environment

Ministerial Decision

 

Decision ref:

MD–PE–2014-0088

Subject:

Notice of Intent Not to List: 1-4 Fauxbie Villas, St. Saviour's Road, St. Helier

HER reference

HE1514

Current status:

Potential Listed buildings

DS title:

DS – Intent Not to List: 1-4 Fauxbie Villas, St. Saviour's Road, St. Helier.

DS author:

Director: Policy and Projects

DS date:

02/10/2014

DS Status:

Public

Written report title:

WR – Listed Buildings and Places: 1-4 Fauxbie Villas, St. Saviour's Road, St. Helier.

WR author:

Head of Historic Buildings, Jersey Heritage

WR date

24/09/2014

WR Status:

Public

Oral rapporteur:

Head of Historic Buildings, Jersey Heritage

Decision(s):

The Minister for Planning and Environment resolved to serve a notice of his intent not to List the buildings specified above.

Reason(s) for decision:

The interest of the buildings specified above, as defined and in the schedule and relative to the published criteria for selection, does not justify their inclusion on the List of Sites of Special Interest as a Listed Building or Place in accordance with the provisions and purposes of the Planning and Building (Jersey) Law 2002, in particular because, whilst this group of mid-1930s houses retain many external architectural features, their design is modest and somewhat conservative for this period when other Modern movement and Art Deco inspired houses were being built in the Island, and they cannot therefore be regarded as significant or special relative to the development of Jersey houses at this time.

Legal and resource implications:

  1. Article 51 of the Planning and Building (Jersey) Law 2002 enables the Minister to include on the List of Sites of Special Interest those buildings and places that the Minister is satisfied has public importance by reason of the special archaeological, architectural, artistic, historical, scientific or traditional interest that attaches to the building or place.
  2. Article 52 of the same Law requires the Minister to serve Notice of his intention to do so.
  3. There are no additional resource implications of this decision.

Action required:

Serve Notice of Intent Not to add the buildings specified above to the List.

Signature:

 

 

Name and position:

Deputy RC Duhamel
Minister for Planning and Environment

Date signed:

 

Date of decision (If different to Date Signed):

 

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Listed buildings and places

Les bâtisses et endraits historique

 

 

Supplementary report

 

1-4 Fauxbie Villas, St. Saviour's Road, St. Helier.

 

This supplementary report has been prepared by Jersey Heritage as part of its responsibility under a Service Level Agreement to provide reports and recommendations to the Minister for Planning and Environment on the architectural, historical, archaeological and other significance of buildings and places.

 

The review of representations received has been undertaken and the recommendation given in relation to the above building and place is made under the auspices of Article 51 of the Planning and Building (Jersey) Law, 2002; and the criteria for the listing and grading of heritage assets adopted and published by the Minister for Planning and Environment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author of report: Roger Hills BA(Hons) MA DipBldgCons (RICS) IHBC Head of Historic Buildings

 

File ref: HE1514

 

Date of report: 24/09/2014


Review of representations received

1-4 Fauxbie Villas were not included on the first Historic Buildings Register in 1992, but added as BLIs later in 1998 by the Jersey Building Heritage Sub-Committee.

 

The recent resurvey recommended that the houses should become Listed Buildings.

 

An appeal representation was submitted by MS Planning, on behalf of the owners, in June 2014.

 

This appeal sets out information showing that the houses were built in 1933-34, rather than the 1920s identified in the resurvey, and this has a fundamental impact on the assessment of their architectural and historical interest.

 

It is agreed that the assessment of more recent buildings for Listing should be more critical and selective, and that Fauxbie Villas are conservative in their form and design for the mid-1930s, at a time when Modern movement and Art Deco inspired houses were being built.   

 

Conclusion

De-list.

 

Although this group of houses have many external features surviving, their architectural design is modest and somewhat conservative for the mid-1930s, and cannot be regarded as a significant contribution to the development of Jersey houses of this period.

 

Attachments

Scan of Representation

Location plan

Report images

 


 

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