by A planning “Grand Designs” is used by the rich for the construction of country houses.
High -specific, modern houses are approved in otherwise protected land when “the design is exceptional quality”.
The NPPF (National Planning Policy Framework) states that isolated houses in the country should be avoided, unless the blueprint is “really outstanding” and helps to increase the design standards in rural areas.
This high threshold means that it is only used by the rich because they build ultra-modern houses and often cost millions of pounds.
Such houses have often appeared on Grand Designs, the Channel 4 program, where some have appeared in areas with outstanding natural beauty – which are normally subject to strict planning restrictions.
A property that is proud of the Cotswold area with outstanding natural beauty is the land tongue in the proximity of Prestbury, Cheltenham-with a leaf-shaped zinc roof and a state-of-the-art interior. Completed in 2018, it fulfills the criteria for a design of exceptional quality.
Swinhay House, near Wotton-Unter-Edge, Gloucestershire, is another property that fulfills the threshold in accordance with paragraph 84 of the NPPF.
The 10-story country house with eight bedrooms contains a pool, a whirlpool, a whirlpool, a sauna, a bowling alley and a pumpkin area as well as a fully closed, glazed winter garden.
Freedom of information to all 327 local planning authorities in England showed that applications had occurred as part of the framework. Of these, 138 were approved, 67 refused and 12 withdrawn.
Richard Hawkes, the director and founder of Hawkes Architecture, has supervised 36 projects by paragraph 84 – including the land pins.
He created the company after a appearance in Grand Designs, but said that the projects are often subject to “Nimbies more often as not”.
“Some members of the public don’t like the idea, but it is really necessary that the houses are isolated so that they will not really influence them,” he said.
“It’s about continuing the tradition of the English country house, because it is typical English to have this kind of houses.
“But in the early noughties it was more of a contemporary interpretation of this than classic estate.”
He said Grand Designs had become a “flag carrier” for politics, in an “almost symbiotic relationship” to the program.
Numbers show that the South Norfolk Council with 17 received applications is the way.
The requirements are strict to ensure that “the highest architectural standards” are used, and the plans “increase the immediate environment significantly and react for the defining features of the region”.
Mr. Hawkes said: “These houses should not hide or apologize for being there because they are excellent and extraordinary.
“It is a policy created by the government to reach. It was developed as a hurdle that could jump, but also one that is high enough so that the houses have to be a declaration of intent.”
The underground Bigbury Hollow near the Bigbury Camp Iron Age Hill Fort in Kent was another one who met all the requirements and functions on the Channel 4 show.
The former landowner had previously rejected an application because the location was an important “gap” between two existing apartments.
However, this property was allowed as part of the exemption when the host Kevin McCloud looked like “like a concrete U -boat that violated the surface of a wildflower meadow and occurs on air”.
Rob Hughes, the director of the planning consultant Hughes Planning, who worked in paragraph 84 houses with Hawkes Architecture, said: “It is not something you can do half-heartedly. You have to have a lot of money for it, but it is also not a billionaire area-is really a mix of customers we get.”
