Worsham, Witney, OX29

The property has consent to convert to a single residential dwelling under WODC planning reference 23/00365/FUL. The property will have a master suite on the first floor with dressing room and shower room, a second bedroom on the ground floor, along with a kitchen, sitting room, and separate shower room. The property is built of coursed natural stone, under a tiled roof and benefits from parking for several cars along with a good size garden. This beautiful location sits aside the River Windrush, but thanks to the elevated nature of this bank, is classified as a Flood Zone 1 in the most recent Environment Agency report. A real one off, and one not to be missed. This property sits within a private development where the residents have opted for seclusion and privacy. Please help us respect this by viewing within the designated viewing slots only. Thank you very much, we all appreciate your cooperation in this respect.

VIEWING INFORMATION

Tuesday 6th February 11:00am - 12:00 Noon

Saturday 10th February 10:00am - 11:00am

Tuesday 20th February 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Wednesday 28th February 1:00pm - 2:00pm

There is VERY limited parking on site, please therefore book a slot with the agent before visiting. Where possible, please arrange to be dropped off and picked up, and be aware that at this time an area of our allocated parking is uneven in places and will not suit all vehicles. Parking is at your own risk.

**Waterworks Workshop is to be sold by Informal Tender, with bids requested by 12 noon on Friday 1st March 2024. We have offered a guide of £250K to £300K, but these are simply guides, not a minimum or maximum**

The following is an extract from the original application, submitted by Graham Soame on behalf of the owners, providing several points of interest. We are advised by the owner that whilst mains water runs to the main site, the purchasers of this property will be responsible for securing their connection with Thames Water directly.

 Planning permission was granted in 2006 for a workshop/garage constructed in local stone to replace the redundant buildings. Building standards were monitored by WODC Building Control. The footings, wall construction/insulation and the roof were regularly monitored and approved. Mains water existed on the site and has been utilized for the new building. A new electricity supply was laid to the site and connected by SSE in 2007. A new sewage connection was made by the main site developer in 2007. This is connected to the sewage treatment plant that services the whole site. Surface water is managed with an existing roadway drainage system that carries water over the river to a soakaway. This was installed when the site was first developed as a waterworks.

An extract of Flood Risk Assessment map for the area produced by the Environment Agency is available for inspection in the data room. The proposed site lies wholly within the Environment Agencies zone 1 for flooding risk. They advised that a further assessment is not required for development in zone 1 for areas under 1 hectare.

 Site History

The site formed part of the, now redundant, Witney Waterworks. The old waterworks was commissioned in 1936 and supplied the local area with mains water. The supply of water was privatised and the works passed to Thames Water in the early 1990’s. Thames Water continued operations at Worsham until 30th September 2002 when the water extraction licence was transferred to Farmoor Reservoir and the buildings became redundant. The residents of the Old Waterworks houses were able to acquire the whole site and the buildings were granted consent for a change of use to seven studio dwellings. The buildings were then developed and the whole site now comprises ten dwellings in total, made up of seven studio properties and three, ex-workers, houses.

 Proposed site description and history

The proposed site formed part of the engineering structure of the waterworks. It was used for chemical and fuel storage and comprised a series of sunken, reinforced-concrete bunds designed as spillage containment structures. These housed tanks that contained the ph balancing chemicals involved in water treatment, Poly-aluminium Chloride (flocculant), sterilizing agents and diesel fuel for generators.

Two buildings were present on the site and were removed in2006/7.

The concrete bund tanks and all the concrete infrastructure remains in situ. The bunds themselves were broken open in the bases, to allow for drainage and then filled with concrete demolition material from the main site. The bunds have a depth of 2.1m.

The redundant concrete building was used to house pumps for moving chemicals to and from the treatment plant, a large diesel generator and also a maintenance workshop/storage facility.

A 2.5m high chain link fence topped with barbed wire surrounded the site. A separate building, positioned at the centre of the site, housed metering equipment plus a clean water shower and wash area to cope with chemical spillage and contamination.

In total five such tanks are situated on the site.

Oakshire Environmental carried out a full Intrusive Site Investigation on 3rd December 2023, their detailed report is available for inspection in the Data Room, please contact the agent for access.