Plans to demolish Havelet house and build apartments
A FORMER lodging house, which has become an ‘unsafe eyesore’, could be cleared to make way for five new apartments at the top of Havelet.
Ana Capri is a five-storey building on the hillside above the Hotel de Havelet site.
The building is shown on the 1898 Ordnance Survey map, and there are a number of listed buildings nearby.
Ana Capri was previously listed, but was removed from the list.
‘Presently Ana Capri offers neither high architectural qualities nor historical importance,’ architects DRP Architecture said in the planning application.
‘The building envelope is not original in its entirety, with the front elevation partially rebuilt in timber, contributing to its low value. There are no special qualities in terms of details and few historic elements to protect.’
The architects added that the building had fallen into a dilapidated condition.
‘This has left the building as an unsafe eyesore,’ they said, adding that it was not worth keeping the existing structure.
‘Due to the unusual shape and the period of construction, the remainder would then need further upgrading to meet modern performance standards and yet would still result in a compromised layout.
‘As such the proposed development seeks to make best use of the site through demolition and the erection of a new structure.’
The new proposed design would take advantage of the hillside, with all five levels having large windows looking out over the view.
That means that only the top two levels would be seen at the Havelet road level.
The building would have a flat roof and this would be lower than the height of the existing structure.
There would be a mixture of two- and one-bed flats, with room for four parking spaces on the roadside.
‘The current proposals focus on high quality internal accommodation and the inclusion of individual external amenity space, balanced against the impact on neighbouring dwellings and the topography of the existing site.’
n The plans can be viewed at https://www.gov.gg/liveplanningapplications, with application reference Full/2023/0273.
