In my eyes, St. Helier is moving in a money-orientated forward movement. It is taking huge risks from investments such as the international finance center, which is likely to pay off well for Jersey. These investments are mostly in the financial sector and in living complexes, which is great for parts of Jersey, but the future of St. Helier is not offering much for Jersey as a community. To me, Jersey is not investing in the tourism side enough and is letting attractions, for both visitors and residents of the Island, to fall to ruins.

One example of the consequences of Jersey’s ignorance of the tourism sector is the Fort Regent. As seen below, the Fort Regent was once a place for families to go and spend days out together and occupy themselves with a variety of activities, whereas now the swimming pool has become derelict and there is little to attract visitors to the site. The Fort Regent pool remains abandoned and money is being spent on increasing the strength of an already strong financial sector in Jersey rather than meeting the needs of Jersey as a community.

I believe that Jersey is trying to replicate a smaller scale city and will eventually start eating away at the few parks in St. Helier, taking away from the community of Jersey in order to boost their finance sector so it seems that Jersey is not diversifying its investments enough.