Cyril Le Marquand House

​​​Request ​759757211

1

Since the government moved into Union House / Street (formerly Cyril Le Marquand House) in 2024 how many failures, breakdowns and faults have affected the building? Window leaks, lift failures, air conditioning / heating problems, door / security breakdowns, lighting problems etcetera. 

2

Have any of these issues cost the government / public of the Island? If so, how much please?

Response

1 and 2 

The Scheduled Public Authority (SPA) have recorded 26 building and maintenance issues at the Union Street site between 25 August 2025 to 24 October 2025 and £5,819.13 has been spent during this period in relation to these. 

The property developer, Dandara, was responsible to rectify any building issues within the Union Street site during the buildings first year, 24/08/2024 to 25/08/2025.

The SPA have not maintained a list of the issues reported to the developer during the first year, therefore the requested information is not held and Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies. 

The SPA’s systems are not configured in a way that will allow extraction of the building issues reported to the developer within the first year. A manual search of the SPA records would be required in order to collate this information. It has been estimated that to provide the information requested would exceed the 12.5 hours allowed for Freedom of Information responses in accordance with Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014. Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied.

Articles applied 

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.

(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.

(3) Regulations may provide that, in such circumstances as the Regulations prescribe, if two or more requests for information are made to a scheduled public authority –

(a) by one person; or

(b) by different persons who appear to the scheduled public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign, the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is to be taken to be the estimated total cost of complying with all of them​.​