Abridge Road, Abridge, Romford, Essex, RM4

A COMPACT BLOCK OF ARABLE LAND, BUILDINGS WITH PERMITTED DEVELOPMENT AND 2,083 SQ M OF ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS

Description

Piggotts Farm is a compact farming unit, with the benefit of permitted development rights on 3 farm buildings in the yard, for conversion to 3 residential units, together with a number of other useful farm buildings behind. The farm lies in an accessible location just outside the popular village of Abridge, well positioned for both the M25 and M11 motorways. It is a small arable unit, with river frontage with Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) and stewardship opportunities and a yard with extensive farm buildings totalling 2,083.09 m2.




Acreage: 120.32 Acres

Directions

The farm lies some 0.4 miles north of the village of Abridge, and some 2.5 miles from Junction 5 of M11. The buildings lie immediately adjacent to the road between Abridge and Theydon Bois with the arable land being accessed via a farm track and lying adjacent to the River Roding. A separate pasture field lies on the other side of the Abridge Road.

Currently farmed under a Farm Business Tenancy by a local farmer, it provides good opportunities for development, commercial use (subject to planning) and other forms of diversification. The land could be entered into a number of different environmental schemes or farmed as it is currently.

Additional Info

LAND AND FARM BUILDINGS

The Property is offered as a whole or in 3 lots.

Lot 1 – 0.196 hectares (0.49 acres), farm buildings with permitted development.

Coloured blue on the enclosed plan.

A compact site with permitted development rights for three dwellings.

This lot includes a yard, buildings 1, 2 and 3 plus a small area of trees forming part of planning permission EPF/1787/23 granted under Class Q on the 4/8/2023.

1. Machinery Shed (18.35 meters x 9 meters) steel portal frame, block walls with Yorkshire boarding and corrugated fibre cement sheets on a concrete floor.

2&3. Machinery Shed & Cattle Barn (18.2 meters x 23.5 meters) steel portal frame, block walls and Yorkshire boarding with corrugated fibre cement sheeting on a concrete floor.

The agricultural buildings currently present are to be part removed, part utilized in accordance with this permission. The access will be shared from the public highway with a new access being created to provide a route to the new dwellings. Shown AB on the plan with the gate to be set back to avoid congestion.


Lot 2 – 47.156 hectares (116.52 acres), farm buildings, arable and pastureland coloured pink on the plan.

A group of more modern and traditional farm buildings currently used for machinery and product storage around a concrete yard with access to the farmland to the rear and sides.

4. Cattle Yard (18.3 meters x 7.5 meters) steel portal frame, part concrete block, part Yorkshire boarding with corrugated fibre cement roof and concrete floor.

5. Open Fronted Machinery Shed (18.1 meters x 12 meters) steel portal frame building, part block walling, part Yorkshire boarding, open fronted with a concrete floor.

6. Fertiliser Store (35 meters x 13 meters) steel portal frame, part block walls, part Yorkshire boarding, corrugated fibre cement roof and concrete floor, joined to No 4.

7. Straw Store (27.2 meters x 14.8 meters) steel portal frame, sleeper walls, corrugated fibre cement roof, concrete floor.

8. Dutch Barn with Lean to (27.2 meters x 7.40 meters) corrugated iron roof, sleeper wall to one end, concrete floor.

9. Old Milking Parlour (13.5 meters x 5.7 meters) Concrete block walls, corrugated fibre cement roof.

Mains water and electricity are provided to some buildings and segregation from the site to be developed at the front will be necessary at the buyer's cost. The buyer of Lot 1 will pay for the division and separate meter.

The land is accessed from behind the farm buildings via a farm track. It is classified by DEFRA as GRADE 3 with soil type being of the Hadbury 1 and Windsor soil series.

The land is divided into 6 arable fields with an area of permanent pasture in OS 1111. The land has historically been used to grow a rotation of winter and spring cereal crops and it drains down to the River Roding at the bottom of the farm. Some of the land suffers from seasonal flooding.

There is access from the public highway through the yard to the buildings that are situated away from the road.

There is a right of way for the benefit of the land to the rear through the yard (currently farmed together with Piggotts Farm by the same farm contractor).

Lot 3 1.339 hectares (3.31 acres) Grassland

Coloured green on the plan

A small field of grassland lying opposite the farm buildings on the far east side of Abridge Road. It is classified from DEFRA as Grade 3 with soil type Windsor series. A separate metered water supply is located in the field adjacent to Epping Lane.