Colour and Contrast in Building Design - Disability Discrimination and sight impairment

Just suppose the Building Inspector fails your new building because the walls are not painted with suitably contrasting colours?
Can it happen?

Jersey now has anti-Discrimination legislation that includes Disability - so building users with sight impairment have to be considered when colour schemes are planned.

This presentation for the AJA (Association of Jersey Architects) by AkzoNobel - the Dulux group of companies - was given at the Town Hall, St Helier, Jersey on 24 April 2019.

As the video shows there are various design methods to be used to ensure that buildings are accessible to all and there is help available through Normans Ltd in Jersey and lots of on-line technical gizmos to help....


Watch the video below and discover colour....

Le Masurier's Bath Street Redevelopment Scheme, St Helier, Jersey - April 2019

Here are 2 videos relating to the Le Masurier's redevelopment scheme for Bath Street in central St Helier Jersey.

Video One below shows the David Wood Sewing Machine shop which will be demolished;

Video Two below is a compilation of the Developer's "walk through" video of the proposal for this 2 acre site in central St Helier together with a clip of the small scale Architect's model and my own video recordings taken in Minden Place and looking at some of the nearby streets and buildings.

Funchal Street shown here is not the only access to the car parking facilities on the site. The existing access behind the former Odeon cinema from Bath Street and alongside the St Helier Centeniers' office (the Old Fire Station) and across the existing (Nelson Street ?) public car park will also be used. This will also be the main access for service vehicles. Unloading bays will be provided on the Bath Street frontage.

The scheme if approved will include;
A 122 bedroom Premier Inn
145 one and two bedroom flats
New shops, bars and restaurant units

Yann Mash - a future Jersey politician

I interviewed Yann Mash recently.
He was a candidate in the 2018 Jersey general elections as a Deputy in District 1 St Helier - he wore  the  Reform Jersey rosette alongside two other candidates - but the three existing Deputies were returned.

Yann plans to complete his university education and should be able to return to the political battle at the next Jersey elections.

If you have a point of view that you want to express here with a video interview please make contact.
You do not need to have been a candidate in the elections.