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Planning Restrictions on Barn Conversions Part 2 – A Guide for 2025

Welcome to part 2 of my post about planning restrictions on barn conversions.  We covered Listed Buildings and protected land in Part 1 of…

Getting Your Barn Conversion Right

Getting your barn conversion right : Factors to consider when searching for a barn to convert. In order to help you on the path…

Behind the Scenes of Channel 4’s Grand Designs

Channel 4’s Grand Designs visits Church Hill Barn: Behind the scenes Church Hill Barn was featured as an exemplary project in one of the…

The Sustainable Case for Converting Barns

The sustainable case for converting barns There is a need to provide housing within the countryside and a sustainable case for converting barns to…

Retrofitting a Barn Conversion

Many older barn conversions are much less thermally efficient than current regulations would allow. Most of the barn conversions in the UK were undertaken…

Channel 4’s Grand Designs Feature Church Hill Barn

“Oh my word! This immense cruciform building seems to have kept much of its real self. The timber roof is the original. The old…