Glasshouse planning consents (FOI)

​​​Request

A

Please confirm how many glasshouse Planning Consents have been issued?

B

Please confirm how many contained a requirement for the land to be returned to agricultural use as and when the glasshouses ceased operation?

C

Please confirm how many glasshouses have been demolished and the land returned to agricultural use?

D

Please confirm how many glasshouses have been demolished and an alternative use permitted on the land?

E

Please confirm how many glasshouses are currently classified as derelict or unused?

Response

A to D

The Government of Jersey systems are not configured in a way that will allow extraction of the details requested.  A manual search of records would be required in order to obtain this information. 

It has been estimated that to provide the information requested would exceed the 12.5 hours allowed for Freedom of Information responses in accordance with Regulation 2(1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014. Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied and this request will not be processed further.

A link to the planning Register page of the Government of Jersey website has been provided should you wish to carry out your own search.

Planning application search (gov.je)​

E

The attached document contains information relating to glasshouses.  Please note that this data was compiled in 2011 and it has not been kept up to date. 

Island Greenhouses 2011_Redacted.pdf​

This means that glasshouses that were previously shown as being in use, may now, no longer be in use and may be in a state of disrepair.  Furthermore, Planning Applications may have since been submitted and the land usage may have changed.  

To check to see if a planning application was submitted, please visit the on-line Planning Register at the link above.

Please also be advised that even if a planning application was submitted and approved, the requested works may not have taken place. 

The department is currently undertaking a piece of work to map all glasshouses across the island.  This work will include identification of the status of glasshouses (i.e., in use, in disrepair) by undertaking site visits and using drone footage.  

It is anticipated that this work will be complete by the end of 2024.

Personal information has been redacted under Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

Article applied 

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 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.​