Government of Jersey

Parking in St Helier (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 28 March 2022.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

I would like a complete spreadsheet of all parking in St Helier; including:

public parking
parking at States owned sites but not available to the public eg parking at La Collette leased out
parking at JDC, POJ & Andium etc.
residential parking scheme parking
Commuter private parking eg underground spaces under workplaces

I would also like the number of properties with no parking.

Further, please send any policy documents that may illuminate this information.

Response

Public Parking

The information you have requested regarding public parking is exempt under Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 because the information is already accessible to you on www.gov.je within a previous Freedom of Information response.

Public and residential parking (FOI)

Parking at States owned sites

Government of Jersey Staff Parking

Information regarding staff parking was provided in a Freedom of Information response in 2019. Some of this information is still current therefore Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 partially applies.

Parking spaces provided for staff (FOI)

The attached spreadsheet provides any known updates regarding staff parking since December 2019 since details of staff parking has not been maintained at all Government of Jersey sites.

Staff Parking (excel spreadsheet)

The Government of Jersey has a fleet of pool vehicles which are allocated to various sites and teams for shared use by their staff. The spreadsheet details any spaces allocated for pool vehicles, where records are maintained. As a result, some of this information is not held and Article 10 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

The following items should be noted:

the staff parking spreadsheet includes both sites owned and rented by the Government of Jersey
this request is slightly different to the question asked in 2019, which requested that pool car information be excluded, therefore, the updated figures may reflect this

Lease of publicly owned parking spaces

The following table details parking areas which are currently leased to external parties by Government of Jersey.

Details of publicly owned parking areas leased to external parties
Site	No of spaces	Let to
Cattle Street Private Car Park	12	JT (Jersey Telecom) Limited
Nursery Car Park in Fort Regent East Ditch	19	La Petite Ecole Properties (Jersey) Limited
Civil Defence HQ Bunker Car Park (CD Bunker)	12	Maillard & Co (formerly Voisin-Hunter Ltd) *1
Civil Defence HQ Bunker Car Park (CD Bunker)	2	Jersey Heritage *2
Former States of Jersey Police Headquarters	16	Jersey Sea Cadets Corp *3
St Paul`s Gate Parking Area	4	St Paul's School Trustees
Belmont Road Car Park	25	Public Market traders *4
Total spaces	90

*1 The CD Bunker car park is managed by Maillard & Co (Maillard) on behalf of the public and Maillard arrange for spaces to be let to individuals.

*2 Jersey Heritage are allocated the use of 2 spaces in the CD Bunker car park as part of their lease of the adjoining bunker.

*3 The parking spaces are used by the Sea Cadets in relation to their use of part of the former Police Headquarters building.

*4 The Belmont Road car park is owned by the Parish of St Helier (POSH). The Government of Jersey lease the car park from the POSH and sub-let these spaces to Public Market traders.

Parking at JDC, POJ and Andium

The information you have requested is not held and therefore Article 10 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

However, it may be held by the respective entities, and you might wish to send your request directly to them in writing. Their contact details are provided at the end of the response.

Please note that Ports of Jersey (POJ) and Jersey Development Company (JDC) are not Scheduled Public Authorities, therefore, they are not subject to the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 and are not obligated to provide a response.

Residential Parking Scheme

The Residential Parking Scheme is controlled by the Parish of St Helier, therefore information is not held and Article 10 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

You may wish to contact the Parish using the contact details provided.

Commuter private parking

The Development Control section do not maintain a record of properties either with or without private car parking, except on planning applications submitted and approved.

Our systems are not configured in a way that will allow us to extract the details you have requested. A manual search of our records would be required in order to obtain this information. We estimate that it will take us in excess of 12.5 working hours to locate and retrieve the data in reference to your request and therefore Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies. This part of your request will therefore not be processed further.

Planning decisions from 2012 to date are accessible to you through the on-line planning register on www.gov.je

Planning application search (gov.je)

Please see the response to section A regarding commuter private parking.

We have provided links to the following documents which relate to your request.

Draft Island Bridging Plan – Post Consultation Report (Subject to States Assembly ratification) (page 261)

Draft Bridging Island Plan Consultation (gov.je)

Second Interim Report of the Sustainable Transport Policy (page 23)

This provides an update on the development of the Parking Plan committed to by the States of Jersey's Strong Start Sustainable Transport Policy.

Second Interim Report on the Sustainable Transport Policy - December 2021 (gov.je)

Parking (planning policy note)

Parking (planning policy note) (gov.je)

Articles applied

Article 10 - Obligation of scheduled public authority to confirm or deny holding information

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if –

(a) a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority; and

(b) the authority does not hold the information, it must inform the applicant accordingly.

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.

Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.