Sold by States in 2018 for £535,000, former lighthouse shore station on market again for more than £1.1m

The property comes with permissions for a variety of potential uses, with the vendor, TaiMing Ltd, having made four successful applications to the Development & Planning Authority.

These include splitting the ground floor into multiple occupation of seven bedrooms and a large two-bedroom flat on the first floor and a ‘more simplified scheme’ with three ground floor flats and a single large first floor one.

Another application was to build a new extension at ground and first floor level which had a boathouse feel to it, being clad in timber and with an external balcony.

But the estate agent said that while subdivision was a ‘very strong option’, someone could create a single home on the site, subject to seeking the necessary permissions.

The sale does not include the car park area next to the buildings, but does include ‘certain rights of way’ to allow access for the owner and for services.

The States sold the site at Fort Doyle to the company, registered at Beaucette Marina, for £535,000 in 2018.

It was sold following an approach to the States’ Trading Supervisory Board for above the valuation price.

The lack of an auction sale was criticised by Deputy Neil Inder, who was concerned over what he believed to be a lack of transparency.

Then-board president Deputy Charles Parkinson said that the sale was seen as the best option for a site that was deemed surplus to requirements.

At the time he said the sale was complicated by the lack of any clear legal right of access or to provide services, both of which now appear to have been resolved.

Before being approached t sell by an enthusiastic third party, States Property Services had said that the sale route was ‘unlikely’, and was going to invest £200,000 to get the property into a suitable condition to rent.