About this property

Key Features

Allocated in Emerging Local Plan partly for employment and partly for residential uses
Detailed planning permission for two storey office building of around 788 sqm (8483 sqft)
Suitable for residential and commercial uses (STP)
Total 0.59Ha (1.46 acres) of development land

Description

A chance to acquire a strategic site that benefits from draft employment and residential allocations in the emerging Local Plan. The site comprises a relatively level rectangular shaped parcel of previously undeveloped land, which is currently lying fallow. The total site area is approximately 0.59 ha (1.46 acres). It comprises 0.378 ha (0.95 acres) of land which has planning permission for an office development, together with a further parcel of 0.207 ha (0.51 acres) to the rear.


Tenure

Freehold with vacant possession

Location

March is a growing market town located 15 miles east of Peterborough and 28 miles north of Cambridge. It is the administrative centre of the Fenland District and benefits from good road links via the A141 and A47 and a railway station providing regular cross-county services linking to the East Coast main line at Peterborough and Ely/Cambridge. The site itself is situated in a highly accessible and prominent position on the south-side of March, on Wimblington Road, close to the A141 March Bypass.

Auctioneers Note

Interested parties should be aware that the property title is subject to various overage provisions, rights reserved, and restrictive and positive covenants. Full details relating to title are available in the on line auction pack for this property. The purchaser will be required to pay an additional sum of £35,550 to cover the pre-payment of a highways completion bond to Cambridgeshire County Council, made by the vendor. See Legal Pack for details.

Wayleaves, Easements, Covenants and Rights of Way

Interested parties should be aware that the property title is subject to various overage provisions, rights reserved, and restrictive and positive covenants. See Legal Pack for details.

Lot Type

Land

Planning

The site has draft allocations in the Emerging Fenland Local Plan (August 2022) in part for employment uses (Site Allocation LP40.04 – 0.4Ha to the west of the property) and in part for residential development (forming part of Site Allocation LP39.07 – 1.72 Ha at the eastern end of the property). Detailed planning permission (Ref F/YR21/1442/F) was granted in November 2021 to “Erect a building for office use (2-storey) with associated parking, cycle shelter, landscaping, storage container and highway footway”. The proposed building comprises a total gross internal area of 788.1sqm (8,483 sqft) and 51 car spaces.

Legal Packs

www.cheffins.co.uk/auctions/property-auctions or Sarah Fish at Ashton Legal, Trafalgar House, 4 Meridian Business Park, Norwich, Norfolk, NR7 0TA

Viewing

Cheffins Commercial Department 01223 213666


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