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Macallan Penfold has recently achieved detailed planning permission on behalf of its client to demolish several agricultural buildings and storage containers and replace them with a new complex of small business units.  These units would be arranged as simple barn structures enclosing a courtyard space that provides access and parking. The design is based on traditional building spans and grids that provide ideal combinations of unit size and floor space configurations for such uses. In planning terms, the site is located in the countryside outside any Settlement Policy Boundary, although the immediate character is defined by the adjoining small hamlet - a residential and commercial grouping [...]

Macallan Penfold has recently been successful in achieving detailed planning and listed building consent for the repair and conversion of a complex of former hop kiln buildings associated with Coldrey Farm, a grade II listed country house on the south eastern edge of the village of Lower Froyle in Hampshire. Macallan Penfold were originally appointed to investigate and ascertain the available options to bring them back into feasible and viable use. The owners concluded that refurbishment and conversion to residential use represented the only realistic means of securing the future of the hop kilns. The approach that has been taken is predicated, first and foremost, on [...]

Macallan Penfold has recently secured planning consent to add two new courtyard buildings within the historic parkland setting of Worting House, a Georgian grade II listed building on the western edge of Basingstoke in Hampshire. The proposals, which total almost 1700 square metres, provide new office space and a fitness centre to complement both the main house and an adjoining listed Coach House, which are used as serviced offices. These new buildings will be arranged tightly within the curtilage of the existing Walled Garden, and set-down within the depth of the sloping site, thereby reducing the impact of their height. The intention is to provide a [...]