Queensway House, Queen Street, St. Helier, St Helier
Description
Location Queens Gate is an exceptional new retail development, ideally located on Queen Street, which, together with King Street, forms Jersey’s premier retail destination. The property is conveniently within walking distance of several public car parks, including Snow Hill, Minden Place, and Sand Street. The development will include a new public walkway linking Queen Street directly with Hilgrove Street and the entrance to St Helier's historic Central Market. Property This prime retail / mixed-use space building offers a unique opportunity for businesses seeking a vibrant and bustling location. With its enviable location and versatile layout, Queens Gate is perfectly situated for various retail / mixed use operators. The property is currently undergoing a full refurbishment and will be available for occupation from Q4 2026. Indicative Areas (GIA - subject to revision) Ground floor: Unit 1 : 3,531 sq.ft. 2: 576 sq.ft. 4: 6,195 sq.ft. Basement floor: Unit 1: 2,142 sq.ft. 2: 1,019 sq.ft. 3: 2,108 sq.ft. 4: 1,749 sq.ft. The units are offered on a "shell & core" basis, ready for onward tenant fitout. Tenure Available for lease by way of a 9 year (minimum) internal repairing and insuring term with a pro-rated service charge. Rental Ground floor: ITZA £75psf Basement: £10 psf Legal & Professional Fees Each party to bear their own legal and professional fees. Mixed-use development Retail / F&B opportunities Prime location Shell & Core specification Flexible layout - up to 9,408 sq.ft. at ground floor + 7,000 sq.ft. at basement level New pedestrian walkway linking Queen Street with the Central Market Available for occupation - Q4 2026 ITZA £75 per sq.ft. ground floor Please call Sarre & Co on 880 880. Please note that all areas and measurements given in these particulars are ap…
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Nearby
- PubBellagio0.07 mi · 1 min walk · 0 min drive
- RestaurantSpice of Life0.02 mi · 1 min walk · 0 min drive
- CaféCuriosity0.02 mi · 0 min walk · 0 min drive
- SupermarketAlliance0.04 mi · 1 min walk · 0 min drive
- AirportJersey Airport5.2 mi · 17 min drive
- Petrol stationMorrisons Daily0.33 mi · 7 min walk · 1 min drive
- GP surgeryIsland Medical Centre0.20 mi · 4 min walk · 1 min drive
- DentistBracken Barrett0.02 mi · 0 min walk · 0 min drive
- SchoolHelvetia House School0.37 mi · 8 min walk · 1 min drive
- Hospital / medical centreGeneral Hospital0.21 mi · 5 min walk · 1 min drive
Nearest match in each category, from a fixed list of Jersey amenities — not every pub, café or shop on the island, so treat this as a useful sample, not a complete picture. Distances are straight-line ("as the crow flies"), multiplied by 1.3 to approximate real road-network distance — this is an estimate, not turn-by-turn routing, and actual walking/driving routes may differ. Times assume constant average speeds appropriate to Jersey's roads and 40mph limits: walking 4.5 km/h, cycling 14 km/h, driving 30 km/h — not open-road speeds, and they don't account for traffic, parking or terrain.
Getting connected
Jersey has two residential broadband providers: JT — the island's own former state telecom, now Jersey's full-fibre network builder — and Sure, which completed absorbing Airtel-Vodafone's Channel Islands customer base in September 2025 (Airtel-Vodafone no longer trades as a separate operator here). Jersey's copper phone network is largely already history: JT finished building an island-wide fibre-to-the-home network back in July 2018 and has been retiring copper ever since — well ahead of Guernsey, where the equivalent copper switch-off was still under way through 2026. Always confirm actual coverage and switch-over status at this specific address directly with JT or Sure before assuming.
What would improving it be worth?
Modelled for this property in St Helier, 328 m² of known floor area. Adjust build quality or size for this property
Value added is the extra floor area priced at £6,818/m² — the midpoint asking price per m² among 219 St Helier properties currently for sale that publish a floor area. Cost uses £4,000–£6,000/m² new build and £2,000–£4,000/m² refurbishment, depending on quality. Net is against the mid rate. The last column is how often Jersey actually approves that kind of application.
Unlike the value side of this table (priced from Jersey's own current asking prices), the £4k–6k new-build / £2k–4k refurbishment rates are carried across from guernseyproperties.gg, where they were supplied by that site's owner from local Guernsey experience — they have not been independently verified for Jersey, and construction costs plausibly differ between the islands. Treat the Cost and Net columns as an unverified placeholder until a Jersey-specific quantity surveyor's rate replaces them.
| Improvement | Value it might add | Likely cost | Net | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add a bedroom (single-storey extension) A modest double plus circulation, built new. ~14 m² |
£95,455 | £70,000 14 m² · mid spec new build range £56,000–£84,000 |
+£25,455 | 86% (569) |
| Loft conversion with a bedroom Works inside an existing roof, so it prices as refurbishment rather than new build — which is why it usually wins. ~20 m² |
£136,364 | £60,000 20 m² · mid spec refurb range £40,000–£80,000 |
+£76,364 | 86% (84) |
| Two-storey extension Roughly 14 m² on each of two floors. ~28 m² |
£190,909 | £140,000 28 m² · mid spec new build range £112,000–£168,000 |
+£50,909 | 83% (193) |
| Garage, annexe or outbuilding Detached space is worth less per m² than main-house floor area. ~18 m² |
£73,636 | £90,000 18 m² · mid spec new build range £72,000–£108,000 |
−£16,364 | 82% (216) |
Two things it cannot see. First, it prices floor area at the local average rate — it doesn't know your plot, your roof, your outlook, or whether an extension is physically possible; nor whether your street has a ceiling price that no amount of extending beats. Second, the rate comes from asking prices of other properties currently for sale that state a floor area — a minority of Jersey's live stock, so treat the sample sizes shown as real limits, not decoration.
The obvious alternative method is worse, which is why it isn't used here: comparing a typical 3-bed with a typical 4-bed suggests a bedroom is worth far more than it actually is — a bigger bed-count usually means a bigger house on a bigger plot, so that figure measures the mix of what's for sale, not the value of adding a room.
Before spending anything, get a builder's quote and talk to an architect — the type-of-work approval rates show how often that kind of application actually succeeds.
Sale history
| Sale date | Price | At 2024 prices | Address on register |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-07-01 | £18,987,000 | £28,929,056 +52% | Queensway House, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 15 1/2 Queen Street, and 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19 Hilgrove Street, St. Helier |
Matched by house name/street and parish against the Places.je property transaction register — not a unique-ID lookup, so a shared house name could span more than one property. The "2024 prices" column carries each price forward at the island-wide repeat-sales index — it is what that sum of money would be at today's market level, not a valuation of this property, and it takes no account of the condition it was in then or any work done since.
Planning history
| Application | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| RP/2025/10076 | REVISED PLANS TO application P/2022/0120 (Change of use of existing first and second floor from Class C – Office to create 12no 1 bed and 12… | Approved Full record |
| P/2023/1010 | Partial change of use to first floor from Class A - Retail to Class C Office. | Approved Full record |
Matched by house name/street and parish against Jersey planning applications decided in the last 3 years — coverage is partial and not a unique-ID lookup.
Estimated cost of live planning permissions
Jersey planning permissions lapse after a set period if unbuilt; these applications fall inside the last 3 years and were not refused, so they are presumptively still capable of being implemented.
- RP/2025/10076 — Internal alteration / change of use
£18,750–£50,000REVISED PLANS TO application P/2022/0120 (Change of use of existing first and second floor from Class C – Office to crea… - P/2023/1010 — Internal alteration / change of use
£18,750–£50,000Partial change of use to first floor from Class A - Retail to Class C Office.
The work type shown is inferred automatically from the wording of the planning application's own description — it isn't stated by the applicant. The base cost range comes from published UK national renovation/build-cost guides for that type of project, and a ~25% uplift has been added to reflect higher shipping/import and skilled-labour costs in the Channel Islands — this is an estimate, not a published index. These figures are indicative only, not a quote: actual cost depends on specification, finish, ground conditions and the contractor. For anything serious, get a quote from a local quantity surveyor or builder.
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