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Bell Cornwell Projects
Enabling Development for Listed Building – Moor Park House,
Farnham, Surrey
Client: Farnham Developments Limited
Architects: HWO Architects
Local Authority: Waverley Borough Council
Bell Cornwell were involved in complex negotiations
to obtain planning and Listed Building consent for conversion of the
Grade II* Listed Mansion and courtyard buildings into 10 apartments
and dwellings including the erection of 14 new houses and apartments
in the walled garden as enabling development and restoration of the
registered gardens.
The conversion of the mansion and courtyard buildings alone was not
sufficient to produce an economically viable development and
therefore enabling development was necessary to fund the restoration
of the mansion and its outbuildings and protect the long term
interests of the listed building.
The scheme was drawn up having followed the guidance in the English
Heritage 2008 policy statement and practical guide,
“Enabling development and the Conservation of Significant Places”, a
policy statement which only applies to development contrary to
established planning policy.
Detailed discussions on the valuation of the scheme were pivotal in
the decision making process and informed a complicated Section 106
Agreement which was dealt with by the Bell Cornwell in-house
planning solicitor.
Other issues related to accommodating bats and provision of SANGS
within the wider estate and management of the Registered Gardens and
River Wey Corridor.
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