A master plan is a dynamic long-term planning document that provides a conceptual layout to guide future growth and development. Master planning is about making the connection between buildings, social settings, and their surrounding environments. A master plan includes analysis, recommendations, and proposals for a site’s population, economy, housing, transportation, community facilities, and land use. It is based on public input, surveys, planning initiatives, existing development, physical characteristics, and social and economic conditions.

Master planning can assume some or all of these roles:

• • Develop a phasing and implementation schedule and identify priorities for action
  • Act as a framework for regeneration and attract private sector investment.
  • Conceptualize and shape the three-dimensional urban environment.
  • Define public, semiprivate, and private spaces and public amenities.
  • Determine the mix of uses and their physical relationship.
  • Engage the local community and act as builder of consensus.

St Helier has always been the capital of the island and the main area of growth and development and where most of the isaldn money came from, throught the use of the ports and the incoming shiops. But the finance industy has now over taken this and is a rapid expanding area for growth, and is where most of the population comute to and from even though St helier on has around a population of about 33,500, roughly 34.2% of the total population.

There is a current MasterPlan for the Northside of the town to be re-developed to make the area more appealing and up to date with the current economy, this can be seen in the link below:                                      https://www.gov.je/SiteCollectionDocuments/Government%20and%20administration/R%20Revised%20North%20of%20Town%20Master%20Plan%20June%202011%20-%20Pages%201-9.pdf