Fantastic residential development site with detailed planning permission for 19 no. 4 & 5 bed houses

Offers invited on an unconditional (subject to contract only) basis only

Description - Fantastic residential development site with detailed planning permission for 19 no. 4 & 5 bed houses
Offers invited on an unconditional (subject to contract only) basis only

Location - The site in the popular Radnor Park area of Folkestone opposite the large area of recreation space with its attractive lake and caf. It is approximately 0.75 miles north of Folkestone Town Centre which offers a good range of local shops and services. Folkestone Central railway station is 0.5 miles to the south and provides regular High Speed rail services to London St Pancras with a journey time of around an hour.

Junction 13 of the M20 is 1.5 miles to the north and junction 3 of the M25 is approximately 45 minutes by car to the west. The Eurotunnel Terminal is just outside the town and offers regular Shuttle services to Calais.

Site Description - The site is located to the rear of the former Royal Victoria Hospital and area for the proposed development extends to c. 0.42 ha (c. 1.04 acres) in size. The site gently slopes and is generally regular in shape. The main part of site is at a higher level than the surrounding land to the north and west and at a lower level than land to the south. The rear part of the site is not proposed for development and comprises a tract of scrub land that slopes down to Pent Stream. The former hospital buildings to the front are undergoing conversion to residential apartments along with some new build blocks. It is understood the majority of these will be private rental along with the necessary affordable tenure units. For the whole site. Vehicular access road is from Radnor Park Road.

Planning And Proposed Scheme - Folkestone & Hythe District Council granted Planning Permission on the 12th November 2020 under planning reference 20/0532/FH for Residential Development at Royal Victoria Hospital site consisting of 19 no. 4 & 5 bed houses and 19 no. 1 & 2 bed apartments including associated external works.
The apartment element of the scheme is already under construction and is not included in the sale. The 19 no. houses have been designed by Hollaway architects and are laid out in crescent around a private gated access road. The scheme comprises 10 no. 4 beds, 6 no. 5 beds and 3 no. 4/5 beds. All of the units provide accommodation over the ground and three upper floors with the ground floors dedicated to an open plan kitchen/dining/ lounge area. Several of the units provide bonus rooms on the third floor that could be bedroom space or for some other use.

Externally each unit provides 1 no. parking space to the front and a private rear garden to the rear. In addition there are 2 no. visitor parking spaces. The site is at a higher level compared to the surrounding land and there are several retaining walls proposed to the northern, southern and western boundaries. The land to the south is at a lower level and it is understood the retaining wall along this boundary will be constructed as part of works to the front already underway.

It is anticipated that access road will be built to an adoptable standard, but will remain in private ownership of the site. Vehicular access across the access road will be dedicated to the proposed new houses, but pedestrian rights of access are required for some of the surrounding properties.

Additional Land - The tract of scrub land to the rear of the site will be transferred to the purchaser. Although this is unlikely to offer any development potential it is considered that it may be of interest to one or several of the ultimate home owners for use as amenity land.

Section 106 Agreement/Community Infrastructure Lev - It is understood that all the Section 106 Contributions have been paid and all the affordable housing is being provided within the apartment schemes already under construction. It is also understood that the site will not attract CIL as there is a large element of under utilised relief at the site. Full details can be provided upon request.

Works Already Completed Or Paid For - All Pre-commencement planning conditions have been discharged.
The site has been fully demolished and remediated.
The central retaining wall behind the new parking spaces for the apartments to the front will be constructed by the vendor.
Building Control and the Structural Design & Calculations have been paid for and are complete.
The piling design & calculations have been paid for.
Load & Point calculations for the timber frames is paid for and complete.

Essentially, it is understood that everything is ready for construction to commence.

Further Information - The planning documentation, site plans, floor plans, elevation drawings as well as a range of technical reports are available to downloaded from our website at .

Tenure - The site is to be sold on a freehold basis with vacant possession upon completion.

Services - New connection fees for Electricity (UKPN), Water (Affinity) and Gas (SGn) are all paid. They are all either laid or ducting laid ready, to the boundary of the housing site. It is proposed that the development will connect to an existing foul sewer at the rear of the site. Full details can be provided upon request and it is recommended that interested parties make their own enquiries to ensure the availability and sufficient capacity at the site in order to service and drain the proposed development.

Vat - It is understood that VAT will not be applied to this transaction.

Viewing Arrangements - The site is set behind the former Royal Victoria Hospital buildings and is very secluded and private. It cannot be seen from the public highway. Should you require a detailed inspection of the site, prior arrangement will need to be made through the agent. Please contact Graeme Dowd n[use Contact Agent Button].

Offers - Unconditional (subject to contract only) offers are invited for the freehold by way of informal tender.

All offers must be made in writing and received on or before Friday 24th June 2022.

All bids must be accompanied with evidence of funding and details of any on-site due diligence that will be required prior to an exchange of contracts.

The vendor is not obligated to accept the highest or any bid made.

Agents Details - For further information please contact the agents:
Graeme Dowd
155 High Street
Rochester
Kent, ME1 1EL

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