Muddles Green, Chiddingly, East Sussex, BN8

A superb development opportunity to acquire a site to provide nine new homes in this highly desirable rural village location with excellent access to local services, transport, schooling, and extensive leisure opportunities.

• Full planning consent to build seven new
homes with gardens and private parking.
• Focus on environmentally led
development – solar energy and air source
heat pumps.
• Further full planning consent for
conversion of traditional farm buildings
into two new detached dwellings with
gardens and garaging.
• Fabulous rural village location with
countryside views.
• Berwick mainline station 5.7 miles.
• County Town of Lewes 10 miles.
• In all about 3.37 acres.

The property comprises a farmyard buildings complex with a combination of modern and traditional buildings.

The property benefits from two separate planning consents to provide nine new homes in total; one consent to demolish the existing modern farm barns and replace with a new development of seven homes, the other, retention and partial conversion of an older courtyard barn complex to create two new homes. Planning permission has been implemented due to works on site including site clearance and demolition of some of the old agricultural buildings.

Whilst not forming part of the planning application site itself, an area of land to the north of the site incorporating a pond is included as part of the sale. This area is subject to a restrictive covenant precluding the erection of any structures or development thereon and an obligation to uphold and enhance its natural characteristic for ecological mitigation purposes.

Full planning consent for the Willetts Farm development was granted by Wealden District Council on 7th January 2021 ref WD/2019/2409/F and subsequently reference WD/2023/0274/F granted on 15th June 2023. Full planning consent for the Courtyard barns conversion development was granted on 29th April 2021 reference WD/2021/0241/F and on 18th December 2023 reference WD/2023/1942/FR

Planning consents are subject to conditions as set out on the Decision Notices.

The plot is not subject to a Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) liability.

All planning documentation is available online on the Wealden District Council website or upon request from Samuel & Son.


Willetts Barn & Old Dairy Barn
Planning consent has been established reference WD/2021/0241/F and subsequently WD/2023/1942/FR to partially convert an existing courtyard of traditional farm buildings into two new four-bedroom detached homes with detached oak frame garages and gardens.

The proposed dwellings are designed to be sympathetic to their structures and historic use with retention of existing brick work and peg and clay roof tiles, new oak framed windows and doors and elevations of red brick, chestnut weather boarding and hung tiles.

The Old Dairy Barn dwelling would provide a substantial modern living space over two floors with four bedrooms (three en suite), large open plan kitchen/dining space, living room, study, utility, cloakroom and shower room.

Willetts Barn is set out in a similar style over one level having four bedrooms (three en suite) kitchen/dining room, living room, family bathroom, study, cloakroom and utility.

Outside, each property will have its own private courtyard parking area, triple bay oak framed cart lodge style garage and gardens.

The proposed scheme retains the existing farm access off The Street with the existing farm drive serving Willetts Barn and the proposed new drive to the north of the buildings serving Old Dairy Barn.

Willetts Farm Development
Full planning consent has been granted for the demolition of existing agricultural and commercial buildings within the farmyard and their replacement with 7 no. new build dwellings, together with associated infrastructure and landscaping.

The current design seeks to create a modern environmentally led housing development focused on using low carbon materials and construction methods balanced with traditional local vernacular building styles. The visual external appearance is based on blending in with the local Sussex vernacular with pitched tiled roofs, tile hanging with exposed brickwork balanced with the objective to create modern low carbon energy
efficient houses.

The new dwellings of 7 houses ranging from two 4 bedroom detached houses, 2 no. 3 bedroom semi? detached, one 3 bedroom detached and two 2 bedroom semi?detached
dwellings.

The houses are to be constructed using modern timber framing with Cross Laminated
Timber (CLT) structural frame, and wood fibre insulation with insulated raft foundations to create super insulated houses. This enables the houses to be constructed using premade solid timber panels Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) which are delivered to site with all the openings formed with minimal waste. This method of construction allows a very fast construction time with the frame of each house typically being erected in a single day.

The proposed scheme makes provision for all new dwellings to have very good size gardens, each with its own private parking area. The proposed scheme retains the existing farm access off The Street which would then extend into a new proposed access road to service the seven new homes.

The site presently benefits from an independent mains power and water supply. It is considered that there is adequate capacity for mains drainage connection subject to all necessary consents. Purchasers are advised to make their own enquiries of service providers in respect to any new connections that may be required as part of the proposed development.

The property is sold with any easements, wayleaves, covenants, rights of way that exist whether mentioned in these particulars or not. There are no public rights of way over the property.

The neighbouring landowner retains full access rights over the sale property along the existing farm drive and over the new proposed road, to access their land set to the north and east of the site as well as rights to lay services for the benefit of their land.