Community hub with wildflower meadow and cafe suggested for Les Creux

A community hub with a farm shop, cafe, wildflower picnic meadow and allotments is part of a group of islanders' vision for Les Creux.

The Good Jersey Life wants to see the site, including the surrounding disused potato fields, used by people of all ages for various hobbies and reasons.

The environmentalist group wants feedback from islanders on their plans for the area after the government revealed it is looking for a new tenant for the Pavilion.

Grow Jersey founder, Sheena Brockie says the site is already well-used but it can be better.

"If you could imagine a smallholding in the centre of the land, you have a community building next door, you can have a cafe, a farm shop, a space for home-working, community groups like yoga.

"It's a central hub for that area."

The group suggests using the Pavillion as a central hub, which will:

• Be a space for Parish groups, events, workshops and meetings;
• Put on educational programmes, training, skill-building and recreational activities;
• Host art exhibitions and cultural showcases;
• Act as a place for well-being activities, such as yoga, and pilates;
• Create a café (no requirement to buy anything to use the spaces);
• House a farm shop or hedge-veg stall if a smallholding is created;
• Be a hub for the bowls club, which will use and maintain the outer green, as the inner bowling green to become a community area for children or members of the community with limited mobility.

It says the surrounding potato fields could be used as an area to help improve biodiversity.

One of the ideas is to create a 'Village Green', home to natural play areas for children, a community orchard and gardens.

Another field would be used for more allotments, including mini patches for children and families and an accessible allotment space.

The group's vision for the 'reimagined' Country Park also features wetlands or wild meadows where islanders can take picnics and explore nature.

Sheena says it is an incredible opportunity to give something back to the community.

"What about just being at one with nature, enjoying gentle exercise, the experience of being outside and helping with the gardening area, wandering through an area that's thriving with butterflies and bumble bees buzzing around?

"If you've got that community-building attached to it you can still have all of these things and a cafe space, or a farm shop that's farmed a few hundred feet away."

Islanders can read more about The Good Life Jersey's ideas on their website and give feedback on the potential use of Les Creux.

An open afternoon is being planned.

Jersey Property Holdings is inviting expressions of interest from potential tenants of the pavilion building on lease of 5-9 years by 7 April.