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Ooooh no not big, we have the luxury of space so this is definitely something I would love to learn more about. Did you look at willow beds at all as an alternative to reed? I love the look of reeds but I wonder whether willow has more uses

@IanR Sorry I missed replying to this on initial read of the thread. This is amazing advice and great point about the structural survey. All of your points are definitely getting added to our list As for utilities, there is an electricity pole on one diagram in the op but we didn't notice it when we looked at the site. Also I work remotely so internet will be super important. We would rather not apply to knock it down and build again as it's some beautiful features and character that led us to fall in love with it

Thank you for all of the advice, we will definitely look into this more. Would it be a super naïve noob approach to think we dig a pond and even add further filtering with reeds and/or willow beds? I definitely need to do more research on this topic (and percolation tests)

It's timber with flint, lump clay walls. The size is a bit strange but the main part of the barn has a footprint of around 80 msq

Wow the amount of information and things to consider is absolute gold 🪙 Thank you

The outline planning seems to suggest we install a personal treatment plant for waste water not sure about fresh, there's an electricity pole on the plot .... If the electricity is coming via the farm could we get detached from them somehow? Definitely need to think about the internet, good call.

We are going to make the move from Kent up to east Anglia after finding this barn.

It's regular outline planning. During that there was a structural survey done that said the floor was sound but we might wanted to replace it with limecrete for a reason around damp and flint clump walls. No mention of underpinning but that doesn't mean it isn't wasn't looked at. Thanks for all the information, super useful

We have been looking for a property or land for some time but we are complete novices. We at the very start of the process of buying a barn to convert, it has outline planning permission which gives us a lot of information and a degree of confidence. However we are still a bit clueless and this site has already been invaluable in getting information so I thought I would say a quick hello before reading more about self build mortgages and what surveys I should be organising at the moment 👋