Testing Green Belt Land Before Spending on a Scheme

Testing Green Belt Land Before Spending on a Scheme

The sites Two rural holdings near Brentwood, Essex, both in the Metropolitan Green Belt. One was a house on just over a hectare with redundant stables and storage buildings on concrete hardstanding. The other was a working equestrian centre on around fourteen acres,...
A Home Made Lawful After Twelve Years in Breach

A Home Made Lawful After Twelve Years in Breach

The property A single storey timber clad outbuilding in the grounds of a detached rural house near Southminster, in the Maldon district of Essex, outside any settlement boundary. It was built around 2000 with planning permission as a cattery, under conditions tying...
Eight Flats in the Roof: A Borderline Consent Won

Eight Flats in the Roof: A Borderline Consent Won

The building Three linked three storey blocks of the 1920s and 1930s in Enfield, north London, holding 39 flats under hipped timber roofs. The freehold was held in mixed tenure, with around 30% of the flats retained by the freeholder and the rest sold on long leases....
Nine New Homes on a Backland Garage Site

Nine New Homes on a Backland Garage Site

The site A row of dilapidated backland garages in north London, tucked behind an existing residential block, producing little for the landowner and doing nothing for the street. The completed development from the air. The brief The landowner wanted to turn an...
Five Homes on a Brownfield Farm Site

Five Homes on a Brownfield Farm Site

The site A brownfield farmstead site in rural Essex, where the owner proposed redevelopment to provide five additional dwellings. The brief Residential development on a rural site lives or dies on planning strategy. The owner needed the case made properly: the...