3 bedroom house

Smarden, Ashford, Kent, TN27 8RH

Guide Price

£150,000

  • Status: FOR SALE SOLD UNDER OFFER
  • First Marketed: Nov 2020
  • Removed: Nov 2020
  • 6.1 acres
  • 3 beds

Residential Tags: Farmhouse, Occupancy Condition

Property Tags: Development Potential

Land Tags: Pasture Land

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  • First Marketed: Nov 2020
  • Removed: Nov 2020
  • Residential Tags: Farmhouse, Occupancy Condition
  • Property Tags: Development Potential
  • Land Tags: Pasture Land
The rare chance for an agricultural worker to build their own house on their own land - James Hickman, Farms and Land

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Lot 1 of a free range egg farm situated in a highly convenient location between the popular villages of Pluckley and Smarden.

This lot includes planning consent for a new 3 bedroom farmworkers dwelling, a mobile home and pastureland.

Guide Price £150,000 to £175,000

About 6.10 acres

(The farm can also be purchased as a whole or in up to 3 lots.)

Communications

Pluckley Village Centre - 1.2 miles, Pluckley Station - 1.1 mile, Smarden - 2.3 miles,
Headcorn - 6.3 miles , Ashford/ M20 (Jct 9) - 7 miles

Lot 1: Planned Accommodation

Main Bedroom with En Suite, 2 Further Bedrooms, Bathroom , Sitting Room, Dining Room, Farm Office, Kitchen/Breakfast Room, Utility Room, Hall, Cloakroom/WC

Situation

The farm is conveniently located between the popular villages of Pluckley, Smarden, and Bethersden all of which have good village amenities including shops, public houses and primary schools. There is commuting nearby at Pluckley Station or at Ashford Station where there are HS1 trains to London St Pancras. Wider facilities can be found at Ashford where there is access to the M20 motorway, or at Tenterden.

Description

The property is part of a working free range egg farm. There is planning consent for a new farmhouse which, once built, will be subject to an agricultural occupancy condition and a 2 bedroom mobile home which is not currently occupied but this could possibly be lived in whilst the new farmhouse is being built. The whole property is accessed through a single access off the Smarden Road.

Lot 1 (coloured blue) – about 6.10 acres

This part of the property lies on the right hand side of the drive and includes the mobile home and the site of the proposed new dwelling together with the major part of a field to the rear. The property has planning consent for a new 3 bedroom dwelling that is subject to an agricultural occupancy condition (see ‘Planning’ below) and is to be sited close to the mobile home.

Planning

1) Planning consent was granted by Ashford Borough Council on 30th October 2019 for a new agricultural workers dwelling under planning reference 19/01306/AS. Planning condition 6 of this consents states that ‘’ The occupation of the dwelling shall be limited to a person solely or mainly working or last working in the locality in agriculture (as defined in Section 336 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990) or forestry or a widow or widower of such a person and to any resident dependents.’’

Plan

The lotting plan on these particulars is strictly for identification purposes only at this stage.

Footpaths

There are NO public footpaths crossing the farm.

Services

Mains water and electricity are both connected to the property. A private sewage plant and a Calor gas storage tank are already both in place, close to the site of the new dwelling, in respect of Lot 1.

Our Ref: AEA200083

Marketed by: Hobbs Parker, Ashford

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