Jersey Sports Academy Planning Obligation Agreement

Published on: 20 October 2025

Question type: Written

Asked by: Jonathan Renouf

Reference: WQ.380/2025

Answered by: Minister for Sustainable Economic Development

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WQ.380/2025

WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE MINISTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC

DEVELOPMENT

BY DEPUTY J. RENOUF OF ST. BRELADE

QUESTION SUBMITTED ON MONDAY 13th OCTOBER 2025 ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON MONDAY 20th OCTOBER 2025

Question

"Further to Written Question 348/2025 regarding the Planning Obligation Agreement (POA) with the Jersey Sports Academy (Strive), will the Minister state what steps, if any, he has taken –

(a) to request updates from the Jersey Sports Academy to the Community Use Monitoring Programme;

to investigate how many of the 4,044 hours per year that were offered by the Jersey Sports Academy to schools and sports organisations were taken up between its opening in June 2021 and September 2024 (and will he advise whether the full hours were offered for each year); and
or is planning to take, to put in place arrangements to pursue the Owner of the POA in order for them to fulfil their monitoring requirements of the Community Use Monitoring Programme going forward?"

Answer

Figures have been provided by Strive by year (as noted in the answer to question b), showing usage by schools and sports organisations since the facility opened in 2021. 2025 figures will be requested at year end. Officers will review monitoring/reporting with the organisation to ensure timely data is made available through appropriate channels.
Further to WQ.348/2025, Officers have now worked with Strive to undertake a more detailed analysis of the data, incorporating participant numbers to enable a more comprehensive assessment of actual usage.

Usage has been calculated below by multiplying the number of hours accessed by the number of students or athletes participating via the Jersey Sports Academy.

2021: 5,404 hours (facility opened 31/5/2021) 2022: 16,888 hours

2023: 21,872 hours

2024: 17,796 hours

Enforcement of planning obligations are enforceable by the Chief Officer of Infrastructure and Environment Department.[1] As noted above, the take up rate to date remains well in excess of the 75% minimum required by the POA before remedial action is required.

[1] the person appointed from time to time as the chief executive officer (or equivalent) of the administra- tion of the States department responsible for planning and building in accordance with Article 1 of the Law;