Harold's park farm

[SantaVera]

Is to be re wilded. I'm all for rewinding but it says it is to allow more houses to be built in Essex.and the guardian article says it has ponies so as we don't eat them it's all ok. I assume it's part livery yard? Does anyone keep their pony there and where will they go?

 

[piebaldproblems]

The livery yard got shut down.

 

[criso]

It closed over a year ago, all the liveries were kicked out at fairly short notice and it was sold with the assumption it would go for housing. That's how it was marketed anyway.

Harold's Park Farm, Nazeing, Essex, EN9 2SF

Property for Sale. Asking Price £9,300,000 - Freehold, Harold's Park Farm comprises a ring-fenced mixed farm suitable for redevelopment and offers a prime rural investment opportunity on the outskirts of Waltham Abbey. The property is in close proximity to London with views to Canary Wharf and...

www.bidwells.co.uk

The thing about no one eating ponies is making the point that they are not taking valuable food producing land out of the equation.

I would have liked it stay as livery yard and competition venue but realistically once it came up for sale, housing was the most likely option and lots of people will prefer it not to be built on so will regard rewilding as a better option.

 

[Bernster]

Assume it will still go for, housing particularly with a renewed focus on building new houses.

 

[criso]

Assume it will still go for, housing particularly with a renewed focus on building new houses.

Not according to this Guardian article, it's been bought by a rewilding company and can't see anywhere they say they are not rewilding all

The government policy might make it easier to get planning permission in some cases but given that in the sales advert the planning authority were already onboard, a new policy wouldn't make any difference.

‘Really special’: Farm near London to be rewilded to enable new housing in Essex

Farm north of London to be returned to something like pasture once enjoyed by Anglo-Saxon king

www.theguardian.com

 

[dorsetladette]

Who owns the re-wilding company?

If whats happening local to us is anything to go by I'd suggest a building firm probably owns them.

We have 'SANG's locally - suitable alternative natural greenspace's. Locals have been sucked into the idea that the building companies are 'giving back' and a few of these have popped up. They make lovely dog walking area's etc. But it's very much 'look what I'm doing over there' while I'm digging up the countryside over here.

There's one in our local village which has been there for a while. The water board have recently started digging up my friends field to 'replace' water pipes across to this field. I feel like I'm the only one that wonders why they are replacing water pipes to a field which only has a couple of unused water pipes in it? The water board were so pushy to get access even threatening compulsory purchase if the land owner didn't give permission.

My prediction is that another 'SANG' will pop up somewhere else and building will start on the current one very soon.

 

[clinkerbuilt]

Who owns the re-wilding company?

If whats happening local to us is anything to go by I'd suggest a building firm probably owns them.

We have 'SANG's locally - suitable alternative natural greenspace's. Locals have been sucked into the idea that the building companies are 'giving back' and a few of these have popped up. They make lovely dog walking area's etc. But it's very much 'look what I'm doing over there' while I'm digging up the countryside over here.

There's one in our local village which has been there for a while. The water board have recently started digging up my friends field to 'replace' water pipes across to this field. I feel like I'm the only one that wonders why they are replacing water pipes to a field which only has a couple of unused water pipes in it? The water board were so pushy to get access even threatening compulsory purchase if the land owner didn't give permission.

My prediction is that another 'SANG' will pop up somewhere else and building will start on the current one very soon.

Companies House associates it with the Knepp estate via Sir Charles Burrell, which suggests that it really is about re-wilding (and leisure)?

 

[criso]

If they hadn't bought it, it was being built on anyway, there doesn't seem to be any problem getting planning for livery yards round here. Worst case scenario, they've delayed it a few years.