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Clacton Road, Frating, Essex

Guide Price
£1,000,000
Boydens, Colchester
PROPERTY TYPE

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Key features

  • FIRE DAMAGED HOUSE
  • BUILT 1880
  • DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL STPP
  • APPROX. 4 ACRE SITE
  • VILLAGE EAST OF COLCHESTER
  • LEVEL SITE
  • OUTBUILDINGS
  • 200 YARD ROAD FRONTAGE
  • COUNCIL TAX BAND A
  • RARELY AVAILABLE

Description

**VIEWING STRICTLY BY APPOINTMENT ONLY** Boydens are pleased to bring to the market this potential development land. The land is located in a non-estate position on the Main Road/Clacton Road at the edge of the village settlement of Frating.

There are several facilities in Frating, but it is only a short drive into Elmstead Market for shopping for daily provisions and junior/infant schooling. There is sporadic development along the main road, with a number of new residential housing estates at the junction of Bromley Road and substantial light industrial and distribution commercial premises beyond including the Car Auction Centre.

There are good road links for the property to the A133 linking between Frinton/Clacton/Walton and Colchester and beyond linking to the A12 to Ipswich and Chelmsford. The A120 links to Braintree/Stansted Airport. Commuters can access Alresford, Wivenhoe, Great Bentley (75 minutes) or Colchester North Station (55 minutes) with a commuter train link to London's Liverpool Street in a journey of approximately one and a quarter hours.

The main farmhouse is purpose-built circa 1880 and has recently suffered from fire damage and would most likely require demolition and re-building. The walls are masonry with outer pebbledash render under a pitched timber framed roof covered with natural slate. The land and farmhouse was originally a poultry-rearing farm but has been redundant since 1986.

ACCOMMODATION (AS-BUILT):

Entrance Porch: door into:

Reception Hall.
Sitting Room: about 13'6" x 13'0" (4.115m x 3.962m).
Dining Room: about 13'0" x 12'2" (3.962m x 3.708m).
Kitchen: about 13'0" x 9'0" (3.962m x 2.743m).
Lounge: about 16'0" x 11'8" (4.877m x 3.558m).
Lean To Conservatory (now not there): about 13'7" x 7'10" (4.141m x 2.388m).

First Floor - Landing.
Bathroom: about 7'10" x 6'0" (2.388m x 1.828m), bath, basin and WC.
Bedroom 1: about 13'6" x 13'1" (4.115m x 3.988m).
Bedroom 2: about 13'6" x 11'9" (4.115m x 3.581m).
Bedroom 3: about 13'2" x 12'2" (4.031m x 3.708m).
Bedroom 4: about 11'7" x 9'7" (3.531m x 2.921m).

The long road frontage gives great scope for several roadside properties.

There are two entranceways to the side of the property leading into a large tarmac and concrete hardstanding area providing parking for plenty of vehicles. Brick wall to frontage with lawned gardens to the front, side and rear.
To the side frontage with access directly from the parking area there are;

Two single garages (no roofs).
A storage building.
Store/garage brick built with an asbestos sheet roof.
Timber poultry house.
A Nissen Hut - concrete block built with an asbestos roof.
Piggery - concrete block work with an asbestos-pitched roof.

The driveway to the side is currently overgrown and blocked off, but this leads to the rear poultry rearing farm comprising; four poultry houses with fan towers for ventilation (redundant since 1986), a further poultry house and store (dilapidated).

The entire site is triangular-shaped and is understood to be in the region of 4 acres. There is extensive road frontage beyond the farm.

SERVICES
Please be aware that due to the fire the services are no longer connected.

PLANNING
No formal planning applications have been made on this site to bring it back into agricultural or industrial use nor for changes of use to residential at this time.

All enquiries need to be directed to:-

For the attention of the Head of Planning
Tendring District Council
Planning Services
Council Offices
Thorpe Road
Weeley
Clacton on Sea
Essex CO16 9AG

Tel: Email: planning.

SPECIAL NOTE - A planning advisor has noted that:

Part of the site frontage is located within the Frating Settlement Development Boundary as outlined in the Tendring District Local Plan 2013-2033 and Beyond: Section 2.

Consequently, for the area that is located within the designated settlement development boundary there is a general presumption in favour of residential development.

Given the local context and the policy designation outlined above, the site within the settlement boundary could possibly support a sensitively designed residential development of 5 to 6 dwellings arranged in a linear fashion to respond to the local character with provision for parking and amenity space to meet local plan requirements.

In addition given the existing agricultural buildings on site it may be possible to secure additional dwellings, as conversions of those buildings, subject to their condition and provided that their last use was agriculture.

The presence of the existing dilapidated buildings means that it is highly likely that any planning application would need to be supported by an ecological appraisal to assess the habitat potential of the site.

RAMS (Essex coast recreational disturbance avoidance and mitigation strategy) and Public Open Space enhancements contributions are also likely to be required.

We understand from the Vendor that there was a historic planning application agreed in principle for the erection of a substantial country house on the site in place of the existing dwelling.

Clacton Road, Frating, Essex

NEAREST STATIONS

Distances are straight line measurements from the centre of the postcode
  • Great Bentley Station1.7 miles
  • Alresford (Essex) Station1.9 miles
  • Wivenhoe Station3.5 miles

About the agent

Boydens, Colchester

Aston House, 57-59 Crouch Street Colchester CO3 3EY

Boydens, Colchester

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