St Saviour ratepayers to vote on £3m park

People living in St Saviour will be asked to agree spending up to £3.1 million creating a new public park.

Two fields next to the Parish Hall are set to be transformed into a green space, with new facilities planned for the future.

At a Parish Assembly next week, ratepayers will be asked to agree to use money from a ring-fenced fund to create the public park.

Fields S514 and S515 will become gardens with a children's play area, toilet block and 32-space car park, with a café added later.

Constable Kevin Lewis told Channel 103:

"Our priority is to get the children's playground area in order and also car parking and the walkways which will go around the park itself.

"The field is directly behind St Saviour's Parish Hall. It has been in parish ownership for many, many years, so we thought we would like to make use of it."

Parishioners are invited to St Saviour's Parish Hall on 2 December at 6:30 pm to vote spending up to £3.1 million from the Maison Connetable Ozouf Fund for the project.

St Saviour's Parish Hall

The funding will cover the first phase of the project, which includes:

• Widening the entrances to the north and south of the Parish Hall and moving the adjacent walls back (providing visibility at La Rue de Patier junction up St Saviour's Hill),
• Re-locating access to St Saviour's House, and three car parking spaces into the forecourt,
• Adding a pedestrian crossing to St Saviour's Hill,
• Building a children's play area and footpaths,
• Introducing a new 32-space car park, building a bicycle store, a new entrance and working on the boundary wall,
• Creating a virtual footpath and pedestrian crossing on La Rue de Patier,
• Adding an access ramp from the new car park to the Parish Hall,
• Widening the access from Birches Avenue onto St Saviour's Hill,
• Landscaping and a new nature trail east of the new car park and central footpath,
• And finally, a new toilet block including power, water supply and drainage.

But, as part of the second phase, additional funding will be needed for:

• The new café, with outdoor seating,
• Landscaping the west of the central footpath around the children's play area,
• And, widening Birches Avenue, turning head and resurfacing.

 If the Parish Assembly agrees, a planning application will be submitted next spring, and work could start in March 2027.