Broadway Malyan is leading the masterplan to revitalise ageing infrastructure and enhance facilities for both passenger and freight traffic. This project will ensure the long-term viability of the lifeline port and its associated harbours, which have served the people of Jersey and visitors to the island for 250 years.
St Helier Harbour has been shortlisted for The Pineapples in the Future Place: Up to 10ha category, which celebrates excellence in placemaking and place-led initiatives.
The first phase of implementation will deliver a new harbourside environment, rooted in St Helier’s historic and cultural heritage, that will deliver significantly improved user experience and facilities for the local community and travellers.
The proposals, centred on Elizabeth Harbour, include a passenger terminal, customs and inspection facilities and freight distribution centre within a significant area of waterside public realm, connected to St Helier via network of landscaped routes, that will extend the town’s green infrastructure.
“The St Helier Harbour redevelopment is an opportunity to create a resilient, future-ready port that honours Jersey's rich maritime heritage while addressing the evolving needs of its community and visitors. Our vision is to deliver a harbourside environment that seamlessly blends functionality, sustainability and a strong sense of place, ensuring this vital lifeline continues to thrive for generations to come.”James Flynn, Broadway Malyan
The masterplan locates the passenger terminal and linear park alongside Elizabeth Marina creating a waterfront destination with significant views over the Jersey coastline and towards Elizabeth Castle. Importantly, this strategy will see the removal of high concrete walls that have severed the port estate from St Helier town centre for the past 35 years. The linear park will extend existing active travel routes for pedestrians and cyclists whilst also providing opportunities for rest and play.
The public realm design significantly reduces material sent to landfill by repurposing the dismantled concrete walls as retaining structures and beneath landscaped berms that have been introduced to provide shelter from the wind and mounds that children can use for informal play. A significant area of existing paving will also be used alongside new material. To reduce waste, un-trimmed slabs will be laid with informal edges along soft-planted or gravel beds reminiscent of coastal boardwalks.
The exterior spaces feature marine tolerant trees planted in a pinetum near the water’s edge with deciduous tree species planting in an arboretum towards the town. To activate the public realm, the design team proposes a series of art installations and sonic sculptures, including maritime flotsam and jetsam from redundant buoys to ships funnels to create a wayfinding trail from the town, through the site, culminating at a new observation pier.
Congratulations to the project team:
Client: Ports of Jersey
Architecture & Landscape Design: Broadway Malyan
Architecture & Public Art Strategy: Waddington
Sustainability, Building Services, Transport, Project & Cost Management: Mott Macdonald
Structural & Civil Engineering: Hartigan
Sense of Place: Louise Browne
