New uses and better prices
Over the past two decades, farmers have sought planning consent for the conversion of their redundant farm buildings into residential or commercial units. Naturally the driving force is to enhance the asset value.
Our Evesham office is marketing a public house in the village of Elmley Castle. This site will be developed with the pub converted in to a house and four new dwellings built in the grounds.
In Market Harborough, an allotment has become a housing estate and a redundant food factory is being developed into luxury flats.
A Mission Hall in Banbury has found new life as an individual home and is offered at £395,000. The Banbury officee is now auctioning The Orangery at Stockgrove Park. Built in the grounds of a former stately home, this comprises a house and glasshouses of over 5,200 square feet and provides an exciting development opportunity to crreate a unique house.
The Ashby de la Zouch office will be selling a former nursing home with 13 bedrooms in September and it is understood that this was the childhood home of Florence Nightingale. Its use in the future is undecided untill a new buyer is found.
With few brownfield sites in rural areas and ever tighter planning controls, surveyors and their clients should open their eyes to alternative uses before marketing their property. In a simple case, this may be dividing a house into two smaller units and at the other end of the scale it could be a complex redevelopment scheme.
Auctions continue to attract many bidders and our Banbury office has achieved the sale of 16 out of 17 properties to fall under the hammer so far this year. Paddocks, land and properties with development potential sell particularly well at auction.
For further information please contact Robert Russell on 01295 271555.
- Ashby de la Zouch
- 01530 412821
- Banbury
- 01295 271 555
- Knutsford
- 01565 757970
- Market Harborough
- 01858 410 200
- Newark
- 01949 851815
- Southampton
- 02380 883150
- Stafford
- 01785 220 044
- Worcester
- 01905 453275
