Pitronnerie field on sale for nearly £5m.
THIS St Peter Port field earmarked for housing has gone on the market for nearly £5m.
The 1.6 hectare site is being marketed confidentially. However, the measurements and details of the site match up with the well-recognised field sandwiched between Pitronnerie Road and La Vrangue.
The estate agent’s details state the key residential development site is 1.6 hectares in size – very nearly four acres – lying in the St Peter Port Main Centre outer area, which offers ‘a great opportunity to meet the high demand for new homes’.
The agent details that a preliminary layout plan has been drawn up for 72 units, with 103 parking spaces. The site is said to be well-connected to the road network and gently sloping, with no known flood risks.
With an asking price for the site of £4.95m., that would work out at £68,750 per plot.
Under the Island Development Plan there are two boundaries for St Peter Port. The inner area boundary is loosely Charroterie in the south, Queen’s Road in the west and Les Cotils in the north. The outer area is a bit further out with Ruettes Braye to the south, Route Isabelle in the west and the Pitronnerie Industrial estate to the north.
There are only a limited number of possible development sites between these boundaries, but inside the St Peter Port main centre is one of the areas where new housing can be created.
The Pitronnerie Road field was flagged as a possible housing site by planners in 2021, when a draft development framework was published. That stated that the site was 1.6 hectares, although planners felt only about one hectare of the land would be suitable for development.
In that document, the planners noted that in the area there was a mixture of low and high density homes – of up to 85 homes per hectare – but felt that this site was best suited for between 50 and 60 homes.
When the development framework was published, an action group was immediately formed by neighbours, who were concerned that the area was becoming over-populated and could be losing important green spaces, but nothing further was ever heard about plans for the site.
