Berry Good Result!

Summer 2017

The planning & development newsletter from DHA

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Berry Good Result!

Working with Berry Gardens, the UK’s leading berry and stone fruit production and marketing group, and longstanding clients Alan Firmin Limited, DHA has secured a resolution to grant full planning consent for a new 13,991sqm soft fruit packing and distribution centre.

The scheme, located in open countryside in Linton, Kent, will secure over 434 existing jobs in the Borough and is anticipated to generate in excess of 500 new jobs by 2024. The scheme will also create a 25 acre landscape and ecological enhancement area bringing tangible biodiversity benefits to the area.

For further information, contact David Hicken, Matthew Blythin or Tim Spicer.

Image produced by Alan Camp Architects Southwark School Redevelopment

A DHA led scheme with Hambridge Homes, Alan Camp Architects and Friars Primary Foundation School, has been granted delegated approval for the redevelopment of the existing caretaker’s house at Friars Primary School to provide new classrooms, meeting rooms and changing facilities in addition to eight residential flats minutes from Southwark underground station.

For further information, contact Alex Hicken or Matthew Blythin. Tunbridge Wells Apartments

DHA was granted permission for the change of use and extension to a vacant former NHS clinic, on behalf of Stonehouse Regeneration.

The consent to create 10 high quality residential apartments required a need to balance a number of heritage and environmental constraints, particularly given its location within the Tunbridge Wells Conservation Area. Image produced by Stephen Langer Associates Please contact David Bedford for further information.

Green Belt Dwelling Paragraph 55 Home

Following on from other several appeal successes in 2017, DHA has secured permission at appeal for a replacement dwelling and outbuildings in the Sevenoaks Green Belt.

Despite substantial changes, DHA successfully demonstrated that the scheme would not have a materially greater impact upon openness of the Green Belt and would accord with the positive approach to planning that the Government seeks to introduce.

Please contact David Bedford for further information. Image produced by Brune Jatsch Architects

A new dwelling in Essex has been granted permission following an extensive design review process.

The scheme, designed by Brune Jatsch Architects and Wirtz International Landscape Architects with DHA leading the planning, New Recruits was created to achieve compliance with the stringent criteria set out in the NPPF, paragraph 55 to create a home of exceptional quality at DHA and innovative design.

DHA are pleased to welcome two new Planning Contact Matthew Woodhead for further information. Graduates, Josh Thomas and Jessica White. Josh joins DHA from Sevenoaks District Council and Jessica from Willow Town & County Planning. We also welcome Alex Bones to our Ashford School Places Urban Design team who previously worked at Guy Hollaway Architects. Continuing our work in the education sector, DHA Transport acted on behalf of the John Wallis Academy Primary School in relation to the proposed relocation and creation of a new 2 form entry primary school with nursery provision, providing over 470 places for children in the Ashford area.

For further information, contact Paul Lulham or Hannah Atkins.

New Life for Brickworks Site Tunbridge Wells Borough Council have approved permission and listed building consent for the extension and remodelling of an A team of Riverwood Homes, Guy Hollaway Architects and DHA annex at a farmhouse near Tonbridge that lies within the Green Planning have secured planning consent for 25 new homes at Belt and High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. the former Pluckley Brickworks site in Kent. For further information, contact David Harvey or Paul Simmons. For further information, contact Ben Young or Matthew Woodhead.

Award-Winning Home Agri to Resi Conversion

Image produced by Macdonald Wright Architects and Nial Maxwell

Expanding on our vast experience in the agricultural and residential An extensive family home in the open countryside next to the North sector, DHA worked with Esquire Developments and Urban & Rural Downs has been shortlisted for three RIBA awards, including RIBA Architects to gain consent for the conversion and change of use of South East Sustainability Award 2017 and House of the Year 2017. two chicken sheds to a residential development in the village of DHA were part of the project team that secured planning consent Stansted in Kent. for the Paragraph 55 home back in 2012.

For further information, contact Danielle Ingleston or John Collins. For further information, contact Chris Hawkins or Matthew Woodhead.

Tesla Engineering

After successfully demonstrating that there were no suitable alternative sites, DHA has secured permission for two new factory buildings for Tesla Engineering in Storrington, West Sussex, next to the South Downs National Park.

The factories will allow for further design and manufacture of electromagnets and gradient coils that are used in the science and pharmaceutical industries and will provide up to 100 new jobs for the local area.

Contact Jonathan Buckwell or Simon Moon for further information.

Building on the success of a new 10 year planning consent for Kent Medical Campus Enterprise Zone, DHA has recently secured planning approval for a 75-bed step-down care home.

The care facility will provide accommodation for elderly and frail hospital patients who are not yet well enough to return home, as well as providing general nursing, dementia and respite care.

Construction is also underway on the Cygnet hospital building, providing adult Mental Health inpatient care, for which DHA secured permission last year.

Contact Alex Hicken or Jonathan Buckwell for further information.

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Hailsham Homes

Working as part of a joint venture team including Bellway Homes and Orbit Homes, DHA Planning have secured reserved matters for a development on land in Hailsham for up to 460 new residential dwellings, a new primary school, retail floorspace, employment provision and new highway access.

For more information, contact Ben Young or Matthew Woodhead.

For more information about any of these projects please contact: DHA, Eclipse House, Eclipse Park, Sittingbourne Road, Maidstone, Kent ME14 3EN

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