The Fort Regent redevelopment reimagines Jersey’s disused Grade I listed Napoleonic fort as a future‑focused leisure and entertainment destination. The design delivers a unique mix of leisure, entertainment, hospitality, and engaging public spaces and events, shaped by the site’s rich heritage and complex technical challenges, and realised through creative, technically rigorous design.
Our proposals create a seamless journey that celebrates the building’s heritage, integrates with the wider site redevelopment, and includes a 2,500‑capacity arena, six‑screen cinema, bowling, e‑gaming, indoor adventure play with climbing, and a flexible events piazza. The design balances cultural and historical significance, commercial and regulatory needs, and the future legacy of the site.
The project’s key challenges were to encourage a full exploration of the interior, strengthen connections to external play areas, and avoid the need for intrusive full-height fire compartmentation that would hinder movement and compromise the listed fabric.
New feature stairs and a connecting balcony create a dramatic arena arrival and link the southern ramparts, enabling continuous 360‑degree circulation above the events piazza. Lifting the arena auditorium to ramparts level and extending the public route over the central North Parade tenancies creates additional free public space, draws visitors through the building and over the ramparts to the external play areas, enhances appreciation of the listed roof structure, and enables more sensitive fire compartmentation using lower‑level, non‑structural fire‑rated glazing.
Developed with Ridge & Partners, Charcoal Blue, Kagency, and Sandy Brown, the scheme secures the fort’s long‑term future as an inclusive, financially sustainable destination that balances public amenity, flexible space, commercial uses, and heritage showcase to establish Fort Regent as the island’s leading leisure and entertainment venue.
