Studio Flat For Sale £1,500,000
A valuable mixed use commercial/residential site.
About one acre. Riverside setting.
Lawful Planning Use* includes:
*further details below and in the Legal Pack – available online.
Adjoining the towpath of the River Thames on the western outskirts of Reading.
Adjoining a residential mobile park home site with 27 properties on 1.33 acres.
A valuable mixed use commercial/residential site in a riverside setting on the outskirts of Reading approached via Scours Lane. The site is level and generally cleared. There is some privacy with established trees on some boundaries.
A sketch scheme providing for 14 park homes has been prepared and is at a density significantly less than the adjoining riverside park developments. A buyer will need to consider whether a scheme broadly speaking similar to the adjoining riverside park development (27 properties on 1.33 acres) might receive planning permission or whether an alternative use is preferred.
SERVICES: Mains electricity: SSE. Water supply is via a bore hole on site, no gas or other services.
PLANNING - The property is within the administration area of Reading Borough Council.
HISTORY &
CURRENT We now refer in more detail to three Certificates of Lawful Use or Development.
Schedule One refers to Certificate of Lawfulness for “existing use of site as a showman’s yard and winter quarters.”
Schedule Two: Fairground caravans, Scours Lane, Tilehurst, Reading. The Certificate states:
“Sufficient evidence has been submitted to prove, on the balance of probability, that the property has been used for storage, maintenance and testing of fairground rides and stalls (14 rides and 9 stalls in total)”.
Storage and maintenance of fairground associated vehicles (12 tractor units, 2 box lorries, 2 generator trailers, 4 box trailers, 4 large caravans for the Meech family and 7 smaller caravans for employees)
Residential occupation of 4 mobile homes and 2 caravans.
Repair and sale of motor vehicles by Mr Meech.
For a period in excess of 10 years.
Location Plan – Plans as existing residential – Residential building D1316-02- Received 11 November 2019.
Has been in continuous use as a single dwelling house (Use Class C3) for a period exceeding 4 years and is therefore immune to enforcement action. It is therefore considered that a Certificate of Lawfulness should be granted.
11 static caravans for residential use.
Commercial storage including associated vehicles and machinery.
The storage, maintenance and testing of fairground rides, stalls and associated vehicles.
The sale and repair of motor vehicles.
The buying and selling of scrap metal.
The reasoning behind the issue of a Certificate of Lawful Use of Development stated on the basis of the available information and on the balance of probabilities, it is considered that the mixed use (sui generis use class) of the land as a caravan site (the stationing of caravans for human habitation) and various commercial activities has been in continuous use for a period exceeding 10 years and is therefore immune to enforcement action. It is therefore considered a Certificate of Lawfulness should be granted.
VIEWING By appointment with the Owner’s Sole Agents and Auctioneers,Martin & Pole, Wokingham
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THE CONDITIONS OF SALE: are included in the Legal and Information Pack available from the Auctioneers prior to the Auction Sale and online at . A copy of the Conditions of Sale will be attached to these Particulars to form part of the Contract.
* Property Auctioneers are required by the ASA to explain to prospective buyers the definitions of Price Guide and Reserve. The Reserve is the minimum price set by the seller at which the auctioneer can sell the property. The reserve can be set and agreed at any point up to the start of the auction or indeed can be changed during the auction. The reserve can be lower than the guide price, the same as the guide price or up to 10% above the guide price. In accordance with ASA guidelines the guide price can be changed at any time up to and including the day of the auction sale. If the guide price is changed we will endeavour to advertise the new guide price at the earliest opportunity. A list of final guide prices will be published in the auction room immediately prior to the sale. This may be the first opportunity to publish changes.
