Fort Richmond developers are ordered to stop work

The historic barracks on the St Saviour’s coast was sold by the States of Guernsey for £1m. in June after being marketed for three years.

There is planning permission to convert the protected building into a six-bedroom home, which would include a pedestrian-access bridge across the former moat.

Due to the sensitivities around the large site – which is a protected monument – stringent planning conditions were put in place to ensure checks were carried out before work started.

But this week an interim compliance notice was issued, ensuring that all work stops by 5pm today after it was noted that the rules were not being followed.

This was followed by a compliance notice, which includes more details of the breaches.

Of the 13 planning conditions, seven have been ignored as work began.

That included having no structural report or specialist timber and damp survey report drawn up, as well as a lack of detailed information that the planners required before work began.

‘A visit to the land on 29 August revealed that works had commenced on site without satisfactory information having been submitted for the authority’s consideration to allow the discharge of planning conditions,’ the compliance notice stated.

‘Consequently there is a breach of the requirements of conditions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 11.’

However the problems stretch even further.

There has also been the partial demolition of a machine gun post, alterations of the ground levels, piling of excavated material on the protected monument and alterations to the protected building, none of which had planning permission.

The compliance notice comes into effect at the start of October, which is when all these issues need to be dealt with.

The notices were issued to Glencoe Wilson and Jules Mountain, care of Jamie Falla Architecture.

Jamie Falla Architecture has been contacted for comment.