Blackstock Cottage, Blackstock Crossing, Campsea Ashe, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP13 0QL - Online Auctions

A former railway crossing cottage on a site extending to approximately 0.17 acres (0.07 hectares) that requires full renovation, but also with the benefit of outline planning permission to demolish the existing cottage and construct a replacement dwelling with separate cartlodge. Method of Sale The property is offered for sale by Unconditional Timed Online Auction on Wednesday 24th November 2021 and on the assumption the property reaches the reserve price, exchange of contracts will take place upon the fall of the electronic gavel with completion occurring 20 working days later. For details of how to bid please read our Online Auction Buying Guide. The vendor’s solicitor is preparing an Auction Legal Pack. This will be available to view online and interested parties should Register online to receive updates. If you are viewing a hard set of these particulars or via Rightmove or alike please visit the Online Property Auctions section of Clarke and Simpson’s website to Watch/Register/Bid. Seller’s Solicitors The seller’s solicitor is the solicitor to the council, East Suffolk Council, East Suffolk House, Riduna Park, Station Road, Melton, Woodbridge IP12 1RT; Tel: 01394 383789; For the attention of Louise Sayer; Email: [email protected]. We recommend that interested parties instruct their solicitor to make any additional enquiries prior to the auction. Location The cottage will be found in a rural location to the north-east of the village and adjacent to the Ipswich to Lowestoft railway line. Campsea Ashe is a rural yet convenient village with easy access to the A12. The village benefits from a popular dining pub, The Duck, together with a shop and railway station, also housing an impressive community café, with services running to Lowestoft to the north and Ipswich to the south, which has connecting trains to London’s Liverpool Street station. The village is also home to Clarke & Simpson’s Auction Centre. The property is conveniently positioned for Suffolk’s Heritage Coast, and with the popular market town of Woodbridge being 7 miles to the south-east. Snape Maltings, with its world famous concert hall, is just over 4 miles away and Aldeburgh, with its sailing and 18 hole golf course, is approximately 10 miles. The pretty riverside village of Orford is approximately 7.5 miles. Description The property comprises a former railway crossing cottage in a rural location to the north-east of the village of Campsea Ashe. The cottage itself now requires complete renovation and refurbishment, but the site also benefits from outline planning permission. This was granted by East Suffolk Council on 26th February 2021 (reference DC/20/4198/OUT) for the demolition of the existing cottage and erection of a replacement dwelling and additional cartlodge. Being an outline planning permission, details relating to the layout, scale, appearance access and landscaping will form part of the Reserved Matters application that are to be submitted to and approved by the local planning authority before any development commences on site. As part of the planning application the architect, Mullins Dowse Architects submitted a Statement of Design Parameters document. The commentary and drawings that were included in that document suggested that a replacement dwelling with a footprint of just over 1,000 sq ft (100 sqm) together with possible first floor accommodation that equates to a further 50% of the ground floor area creating a dwelling of approximately 1,450 sq ft (135 sqm) in all may be achievable. In addition a detached cartlodge was also suggested. Network Rail were not consulted as part of the planning application, and as such their formal response was received after the planning permission was granted. Network Rail advised that the Blackstock level crossing is an occupation and public footpath level crossing and the proposed development land has no rights in the level crossing. Network Rail advise that any developer of this site should contact their Asset Protection and Optimisation team prior to works commencing on site - [email protected]. CIL Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) may be payable and this will be set on the grant of a Reserved Matters planning permission. However, if the plot is purchased by a self builder/owner occupier, then we understand that exemption from CIL may be available. Any detailed enquiries relating to CIL should be referred to the Local Planning Authority, East Suffolk Council; email - [email protected]; Tel: 01502 523052. Services We are advised that there are no mains services connected to the site. Previously a generator provided electricity; water was via a borehole on site and drainage was to a private treatment system (septic tank or similar). Viewing Strictly by prior appointment with the agents. Please adhere to current Covid guidelines. Access to the cottage is unlikely as it has been secured for health and safety purposes. Local Authority East Suffolk Council, East Suffolk House, Station Road, Melton, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 1RT; Tel: 01394 383789. Directions Heading south on the B1078 from Wickham Market to Campsea Ashe, continue across the A12 flyover and take the first turning on your left on to Station Road. Continue along this road until the crossroads. Proceed over the crossroads continuing along Station Road where the property will be found on the left hand side just before the level crossing. What 3 Words marketing.ringers.verges