Birchwood
Location:
Suffolk, UK
Client:
Private
Visualisations and drawings:
SOUP
Birchwood is a residential development in Suffolk, approved under the powers of the country house exemption clause – Paragraph 79, which is a means of gaining approval for an exceptional one-off house on a site where refusal would normally be expected.
The ambition is to re-purpose two agricultural barns located within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to create a new, energy efficient family home and two self catering holiday homes.
The proposed works involve the demolition of an existing Grain Store and transformation to the adjoining Tractor Shed without the need to alter the existing landscape and general openness of the site.
The scheme will transform a disused tractor store into a four or five bedroom house and replace a dilapidated grain store with two holiday homes.
Both elements are joined together with a single storey link that forms the entrance to the main house and covered porch to the cottages.
The Paragraph 79 clause, once known as Paragrapgh 55 in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) was a challenging procedure successfully navigated with the guidance of Planning Consultant, Fisher Jones Greenwood LLP.
The ambition is to re-purpose two agricultural barns located within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to create a new, energy efficient family home and two self catering holiday homes.
The proposed works involve the demolition of an existing Grain Store and transformation to the adjoining Tractor Shed without the need to alter the existing landscape and general openness of the site.
The scheme will transform a disused tractor store into a four or five bedroom house and replace a dilapidated grain store with two holiday homes.
Both elements are joined together with a single storey link that forms the entrance to the main house and covered porch to the cottages.
The Paragraph 79 clause, once known as Paragrapgh 55 in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) was a challenging procedure successfully navigated with the guidance of Planning Consultant, Fisher Jones Greenwood LLP.
