Keyland gets green light for unique rural conversion projects
KEYLAND Developments has secured planning for two unique rural residential conversion projects in West Yorkshire and has appointed agents to launch the opportunities to market.
Keyland, the property trading arm of Kelda Group and sister-company to Yorkshire Water, has secured planning consent from Kirklees Council for the creation of a new home overlooking the Holme Styles Reservoir within the Holme Valley in West Yorkshire.
The Greave Farm site is presently home to a number of vacant agricultural buildings and a former farmhouse and the planning permission will enable a purchaser to build a new single, two-storey dwelling. The property is now being marketed by Simon Blyth in Holmfirth with an asking price of more than £500,000.
Kirklees Council has also granted planning permission to Keyland for the conversion of an agricultural barn off Woodhead Road, also in Holme, into a two bedroom home with a small single storey extension. Keystone Barn overlooks the valley and hillside. The consent will facilitate a full restoration of the vacant barn to bring it back into use as a dwelling. Carter Jonas has now brought the property to market and is seeking offers of more than £200,000.
Interest is anticipated to be high in the two unique residential conversion opportunities following the recent sale by Keyland of a former Yorkshire Water operations building in Huddersfield for conversion into a single home. The former water filter house is adjacent to Longwood Reservoir.
Ryan Unsworth, development manager at Keyland Developments, said “There will always be high demand for unique sites of this nature from purchasers who want to create a home unlike no other. The locations these properties occupy benefit from incredible views and surroundings, yet are within easy reach of local villages. As such they have broad appeal to design enthusiasts who have the vision to take on a project in order to bring these sites back to life as one-off homes.”
Chris Atkinson, planner in the Leeds office of Barton Willmore, who secured planning permission on behalf of Keyland for Greave Farm, said: “The redevelopment and reinvigoration of redundant sites such as Greave Farm represent an excellent opportunity to provide a multitude of benefits including regeneration, helping to meet rural housing demand and high quality design and sustainability, whilst respecting the sensitivities of the Green Belt and the surrounding landscape. We are delighted to have secured planning permission for Keyland.”
