Willow Farm. Green Belt Overhaul.
What did we do?
Achieving the Impossible—Again!?!
Redeveloping an Equestrian Farm in the Green Belt
Brass Architecture has successfully delivered atransformative overhaul of this residential equestrian farm complex, achieving significant increases in massing and floor area. This project exemplifies how a well-communicated ‘planning balance’ can override rigid, non-site-specific policies—turning constraints into opportunities.
A Vision for the Future
Located on the outskirts of Sevenoaks, Kent, the site is set to evolve further with future development phases, including:
- A farm shop to support local produce
- Grazing zones for sustainable land use
- A butchery to enhance farm-to-table operations
A bold and strategic approach—proving once again that withthe right methodology, the impossible can be achieved.
Services
- Strategy
- Stakeholder Management
- Feasibility
- Design Development
- Pre-Application Submittals
- Planning Documentation
- Planning Submittals
- Associative Artwork
- Framework of Consultants
Given our continued Green Belt success stories, Brass Architecture were approached by a client who owned a substantial site located in Sevenoaks, Kent.
Consisting of vast farmland, the site has a family home, extensive workshops, and garages - plus aged infrastructure across the application site (stables, workshops etc).
The conundrum?
How can the existing house on the site be redeveloped as a suitable family home with notable Green Belt restrictions in place.
Brass Architecture strategised and formed a talented design team to explore options to achieve the client brief particulars.
Brass Architecture developed proposals that were befitting of the site, again far exceeding policy restrictions.
LPA feedback was mixed. We again believed planning balance was the most important element at play with regards to this valued site.
Effective communication of proposals via imagery and heat mapping clearly demonstrated the merits of the proposals.
Brass submitted applications and addressed all concerns raised by the LPA. The submission was deemed appropriate given wider site considerations, and we gained the desired approvals.
Our works extend the host residential property, redevelop all external workshops, garages and barns – with the finalised design super sensitive to the natural surrounds.
The ecological design proposals utilising pioneering green technologies.
Related Project
Hermitage Gate. Inventive Green Belt Works.
Harrow, London, UK
Achieving the Impossible?
A substantial development in the heart of the Green Belt.
The site, includes a listed historic former gatehouse (residential) building with associative structures set across a generous plot located in Harrow, North London.
The conundrum?
How can the site be developed as a family home with tough Green Belt restrictions in place?
Inventive thresholds between the old and the new, alongside carefully planned landscaping, softens the new built form, integrating our interventions within the wider street scene context.
