Autumn 2021 - work on the road, the pond and the house
With the design input from Seed Lansdcape Design https://seedlandscape.com , Integral Engineering Design https://www.integral-engineering...
MAKING A MODERN COUNTRY HOUSE
THE STORY OF THE MAKING OF A MODERN COUNTRY HOUSE
A new paragraph 79e country house
ABOUT
The site was bought in 2016 and planning permission was granted for new house under paragraph 79e of the National Planning Policy Framework in early 2020. Significant landscape works started in the second half of 2020 and work on the house began in September 2021.
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Summer 2021 - the trees look happy
Meanwhile the design team are working hard to complete the construction drawings.
Spring 2021 - tree planting
Carrying out Seed Landscape Architect's design, Walmsley Shaw landscape contractors prepared the land and planted 3,000 trees forming the...
Spring 2020 - The Appeal Hearing
We chose a hearing over an inquiry to prevent our supporters being subject to formal cross examination. It also allowed opposition, be...
Spring 2019 to Autumn 2019 - preparing for the Appeal Hearing
Despite always being aware that going to appeal was a very real possibility and the highly detailed planning submission required for a...
Spring 2019 - Planning Committee
Despite a third Design Review Panel review declaring, "Overall, the Panel finds a scheme of considerable worth that we believe to be of...
Summer 2018 - Spring 2019 - from submission to Planning Committee
As soon as the application was submitted, CDC changed the case officer. It shouldn't happen. It was clear which was the officers wanted...
Summer 2018 - And thanks to our friends
The road towards the planning application also included canvassing the support of the CDC ward councillor, the Parish Council and...
The next year - summer 2017 - summer 2018
It takes another year to the point when we submit the planning applciation. This involves several more consultants: Integral -...
Summer 2017 - One year in! The first Design Review Panel and planning pre-application meeting
A three hour meeting with the design team, the DRP and 2 officers from Cotswold District Council. One of the planning officers has to...
Spring 2017 - Independent design review
The established route is to engage a regional design review panel, to provide independent expert advice on whether the design meets the...
Spring 2017 - M&E designers join the team before the first planning pre-application meeting
For a paragraph 79e application a high level of detail is required and the M&E designers (old friends so an easy choice) join the team...
Autumn 2016 - Loyn & Co win the 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize People's Vote
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37564778 The first house to be on the Stirling Prize short list for 15 years wins the people's vote
Autumn 2016 - Landscape is a large part of this project
With the architects and the planning consultants we spent an entire day in the rain on site interviewing six landscape architects. Seed...
Autumn 2016 - Adding a planning consultant to the team
An experienced planning consultant was needed as, to build a modern country house in isolated countryside, planning permission has to be...
Autumn 2016 - Finding the architect
In the autumn of 2016 Outhouse by Loyn & Co was on the RIBA shortlists for the House of the Year and for the Stirling Prize....
Summer 2016 - Buying a field
At an auction in a hotel in a Cotswolds market town, high drama as the local traveller who lives in a caravan on land he allegedly won...
