Jersey Sports Academy Planning Obligation Agreement
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WQ.381/2025
WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING
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), and his position as party to that POA, will the Minister detail –
- what steps, if any, he has taken 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;
- whether he has received regular reports detailing the monitoring of these hours, as outlined in the POA, and if not, why not; and
- if these reports have not been received from the Owner of the POA, what measures, if any, have been taken to create arrangements to pursue the Owner in order that the monitoring requirements for the Community Use Monitoring Programme are upheld going forward?"
Answer
- The Minister has not carried out an investigation and notes that the take up rate is 86.7% as confirmed by Written Question 348/2025, well in excess of the 75% minimum required by the POA before remedial action is required.
- Formal reports have not been received by the Minister for Education and Lifelong Learning or his department since the Jersey Sports Academy (JSA), operating as Strive ("the Owner"), opened in 2021. In 2016, the then Minister for Education was one of 3 parties to the agreement, along with the then Minister for EDTSC and the Chief Officer of the then Department for the Environment. Ad-hoc updates are provided to the Department for the Economy as required and Strive maintain an ongoing relationship directly with Jersey Sport and with Island schools, sports and community groups, in relation to use of the facility during available hours.
- The covenants, restrictions and requirements imposed upon the Owner under the POA create planning obligations pursuant to Article 25 of the Law and are enforceable by the Chief Officer [i] against the Owner.
[i] the person appointed from time to time as the chief executive officer (or equivalent) of the administration of the States department responsible for planning and building in accordance with Article 1 of the Law;