The Quarry · Guernsey land use

New homes from old buildings

Every planning application in Guernsey since 2015 to turn a packing shed, barn or outbuilding into a home, or to knock one down and build a house in its place, taken from the States planning register and mapped month by month.

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Granted Refused Withdrawn or still pending Building types overlap: a packing shed on a farm counts under both.

Selected application

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What happened when

    Applications each year, by type

    Where the changes are

    Applications granted since the Island Development Plan took effect (November 2016 onwards), by parish, with the number of homes they allow. Most are in the north, where the island's vineries were concentrated.

    How this map was made

    The applications

    Each description was read for two kinds of change: converting an existing building that was not a home (a packing shed, barn, stable, store or outbuilding) into one or more homes, and demolishing such a building to put up a house or flats in its place. Building a new house next to a working shed, converting an outbuilding into an annexe for an existing house, and replacing one house with another are all left out. Amendments to earlier approvals are left out so the same scheme isn't counted twice. Former hotels and self-catering units are on the hotels map instead.

    The sorting is done on the wording of each description. A random check of 25 included applications found one that may not belong (a boiler house converted to a store as part of a wider scheme). Treat individual counts as close rather than exact.

    Homes

    The number of homes comes from the description where it gives one ("convert agricultural building to 4 dwellings"). Where it doesn't, the application is counted as one home. A permission is not proof the home was built: some lapse, and the same site often appears more than once as schemes are revised.

    Dates and outcomes

    Each application appears in the month it was validated, not the month it was decided. The outcome is its status on the register now, so recent months include applications still pending.

    Locations

    Sources

    1. Download the data (CSV)
    2. States of Guernsey planning register, Planning Applications Websearch
    3. States of Guernsey Digimap: planning site boundaries and land parcels
    4. Appeal fails but redundant glasshouses to be re-defined, Guernsey Press, 16 Aug 2018
    5. Bordeaux Vinery could become five homes, Guernsey Press, 20 Aug 2022
    6. Derelict glasshouse sites ripe for housing, Guernsey Press, 14 Apr 2023
    7. Collas Crill explains the Island Development Plan review, Collas Crill