On 18th July the owner of the site met with residents at a meeting of the Hertfingfordbury Village Residents Association.
Quarry End Manor, Hertingfordbury
On 18 July, 2024 Jan Goodeve and Richard Threlfall attended the Hertingfordbury Village Residents Association meeting. Nigel Brunt owner of the Quarry End Manor site had been invited to attend and he addressed the meeting regarding his plans for the 15 acre site due to resident concerns as to what his intentions were for the site. Suzanne Rutland Barsby had facilitated this. Attached is a photo document he shared. The meeting was attended by c25 residents. Below are some bullet points covering what we learned.
- He bought the site for £380K approx 8 years ago.
- Junk/rubbish has been cleared.
- Construction ongoing of 13 x15 m Barn c 5.7m high, foundations are 7.5 m deep with an undercroft down to natural ground level.
- Onsite TPOs lifted; 2,000 trees being re sited due to being on an unstable bank.
- Lots of pot ash which has been capped.
- Although constructed as a barn, building regs are of residential site standards.
- He is using some aggregate from on the site for the construction.
- Top soil is being brought in from the Google data centre site being built next to the M25 at Waltham Cross.
- It is his intention depending on changes to planning policy anticipated in due course put an application in for conversion to residential, not class Q, as well as landscaping and biodiversity measures. Would ensure high quality sustainable measures incorporated. He is confident that policy changes will enable this.
- It is his intention, he says, to move into the property from Essendon and become part of village life.
- Due to resident concerns expressed to EHDC building control and enforcement have both previously attended site but not found anything amiss.
- Residents have had issues with large lorries passing one another on the narrow lane, damaging the edges of the roads and noise – NB to look into sound mitigation, lorries should be controlled by radio comms – he will pick up on this.
Author: Jan Goodeve