June 2016.

• Initial architect contact with applicant, feasibility discussion.

• Initial planning feasibility discussion with RS

August 2016.

• Brief development & review with client

• A conceptual diagram prepared in response to one of many site visits exploring the idea of extending the existing beach hedged drove road South of the site, and forming an outward looking, embracing building enclosure nestled in the site.

October 2016.

• Selection of Landscape Architect, site strategy devlopment.

November 2016.

• Early design iteration exploring forms of building suitable for a dual aspect site with sensitive views across the Culm Valley. The design would need to address the north facing aspect, whilst recognising the southern solar facade. The design continued to explore the landscape memory of the site and it’s previous use as a plantation and managed landscape.

December 2016.

• Site strategy review teem meeting

• Applicant consult neighbours regrading principle of development.

January 2017.

• Preparation of Eco report & Phase 1 Survey.

• Initial Design development.

February 2017.

• Initial design presented to Mid Devon Council as a Pre-Application enquiry. The project was conceived as a hillside grouping of agricultural buildings, with a receding character of form as the building transitioned into ancillary use.

  The project introduced the harvested residual Scotts pine as a threshold marker. The building was conceived as a hedge bank with a field facing stone bank and spine through the building.

March 2017.

• Pre-app enquiry submitted, Parish councillors consulted by client.

May 2017.

• Pre-app mtg & feedback.

June 2017.

• Applicant presents to Parish Council & district councillor.

• Applicant consults using drawings with immediate neighbours

July 2017.

• Applicant presents to Parish Council & district councillor.

August 2017.

• Sketch design presented to the Design Review Panel started to explore a more expressed roof form enabled by a glulaminated beech truss design. This also offered the integration of southerly roof slopes for integration of onsite photovoltaic energy generation.

September 2017.

• DRP feedback, design team strategic review.

October 2017.

• Design dev, development with Buckland, ecological enhancement development, further integration of Landscape design.

December 2017.

• Submission of Planning Application, return to DRP.

January 2018.

• The design was distilled and and layers of detail added in response to positive previous feedback and scheme submitted for a Planning Application and further design review panel input. The scheme was publicly consulted and resonated strongly with significant local public support recognising the potential enhancement to the area.

July 2018.

• In recognition of positive feedback regarding the beech truss, this design was developed and became a strong characteristic of the main dwelling form and was recognised as Innovative by the design review panel.

November 2019.

• The scheme as submitted builds on the innovative truss design and resulting form to provide an integrated building design which also articulates the primary and ancillary parts of the building. The building form and arrival emphasises the conceptual essence of a plantation clearing evidenced by a residual hedge-bank form. This returns full circle from the original appreciation of the specific characteristics and history of the site..

April 2020

• Planning Approval was granted and “As such the proposal is considered to comply with development plan policy and para 79 (e) of the National Planning Policy Framework.” Project Planning Consultant James Ellis stated; “genuinely the best design response to a site I have seen in 15 years in Planning on both sides of the fence and if the policy test is for a scheme to be 'sensitive to the defining characteristics of the local area' then it's difficulty to see this being addressed more comprehensively,”