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Class Q – New Rules or Old?
Rural landowners and developers currently have an opportunity to secure change of use of agricultural buildings to different uses, the most popular being residential dwellings, under two options via the Class Q permitted development route. Until 20th May 2025, it is still possible to utilise the previous criteria, the key points being that the up…
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A Contemporary Agricultural Tied Dwelling
For many farmers, ensuring the sustainability of their business means the next generation taking over. For that to happen, new homes are often required on or near the farm. But unlike the rash of tied bungalows that sprang up in the 80’s and 90’s, today’s young farmers are more informed and more interested in creating…
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Our 20th Anniversary!
Unbelievably it was 20 years ago this month that our practice took its first steps in the big wide world! Renting a small office in the centre of Barnstaple from Dyer Feesey Wickham Architects. A year later we took on our first member of staff and moved into a larger, adjoining office. Then in 2008…
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Self-build in Somerset Starts on Site
Great to see a contemporary new low energy home starting on site this week. This project is a replacement dwelling within a conservation area but we achieved planning permission without any compromise to the design. So we are now looking forward to seeing that design take shape throughout the construction phase.
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Planning permission for energy efficient homes in Gosport Hants
Peregrine Mears Architects PMA have successfully obtained planning consent for and interesting scheme for two highly energy efficient homes in Hampshire. Ciaran Linane, PMA Project Architect highlighted that sustainability is the main driving force of the proposal. Our client will build two new dwellings in Gosport, Hampshire. he brief was to produce two affordable, highly…
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Looking to develop land? Talk with PMA
Land development. Development is often the way to maximise land value; so how best can this be achieved? Working with an specialist architect can help you assess and optimise opportunities. With years of experience of residential development, the Peregrine Mears Architects PMA architectural team are experts, as professional architectural advisers, with unusually valuable developer client-side…
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SIP panels & oak frame use in contemporary construction
Photographs credit: Wedgewood Buildings This month the PMA architects’ design team were invited to Wedgewood Buildings, for an insight into this local company’s SIPs (Structural insulated panels), oak frames and their high-performance building system used in the construction of both residential and commercial buildings. The panels are insulating foam core compressed between two structural facings,…
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Glass – working with this exciting material
As part of PMA’s continual CPD programme, we welcomed of IQ Glass, respected as leading UK specialists in high specification architectural glazing, supplying and installing the most pioneering architectural glass technology. “We are currently working on various exciting commercial and residential projects using glass as a key feature” commented Dan Huxtable. He continued “Knowledge of…
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Planning success for South Hams community hub
Peregrine Mears Architect are delighted to obtained planning approval to allow the conversion of Buckfastleigh Methodist Church to a community hub. An important part of the history of this vibrant small market town in the South Hams which came into its own in 11th Century, when King Canute established the Benedictine Buckfast Abbey in 1018. The…
