The farm, which is owned by St Peter’s Storage Park Ltd, originally had plans approved in August of last year, submitted by the Fuller Group, to change the usage of the buildings into self-storage, with an investment of £500,000 put forward for it, despite objections and an unsuccessful public appeal against it.
The new application states its use as storage would no longer be viable due to a number of changed circumstances.
‘An important part of the previous application was demonstrating why storage was needed to be located at Le Grais Farm,’ the new planning application said.
‘However, since the application commenced and permission was granted, permission was also given for a self-storage facility in close proximity – former Bredoyle’s by the airport.’
Other newly approved storage units were blamed for the application no longer being feasible, such as Brock Self Storage in St Sampson’s and Gilbert’s Self Storage in St Peter Port.
This led to the statement that the self-storage market was now too over-supplied and if they continued with the original plan they would be at a competitive disadvantage.
Now St Peter’s Storage Park Ltd, a company that has connections with the Fuller Group, is looking to build five homes on the site, with plans also for 13 parking spaces.
The proposed plans state the change of usage of the buildings to residential would alleviate the concerns of the original plans, whereby it would be in keeping with the character of the area.
The States Development & Planning Authority received the application on 17 June from the site’s contractor DLM Architects, with the site notice displayed on 20 June.
Any comments on the application are to be submitted to the DPA within 21 days of this by 11 July.
An estimated start date for the project of September 2020 is given within the application and an expected completion date exactly a year later.
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