Garage courts and yards wanted in Canterbury
Development Land Wanted buys garage courts and yards in Canterbury and right across England and Wales. Owners and agents are both welcome.
If you own a block of garages or a small service yard, it may be a housing site. We look at the access, the existing tenants and any rights of way across the land.
- Size
- About 1 to 10 homes
- Planning
- Usually without
- Areas
- England & Wales
- Ways we buy
- Outright or conditional
Garage courts and yards we are looking for in Canterbury
Across Canterbury, lock-up blocks that are half empty can be a better use of land as homes, with parking handled sensibly. Sitting about 24 miles east of Maidstone, Canterbury is within Kent, with Whitstable and Herne Bay close by.
- Lock-up garage blocks, let or empty
- Parking courts behind houses
- Sites reached by a shared drive or lane
- Courts where some garages are let on licences
Kent ranges from the Medway towns, Dartford and Gravesend on the Thames to Maidstone, Ashford, Canterbury, Tunbridge Wells and the coastal towns of Margate, Ramsgate, Folkestone and Dover. West Kent is largely Metropolitan Green Belt, while the Kent Downs and High Weald National Landscapes cover much of the countryside. Sites typically include edge-of-town fields, orchards and farmland, farm buildings, infill plots and brownfield land in the towns.
What decides whether a site in Canterbury works
Displaced parking
Councils often want to know where current users will park.
Licences and tenants
Garage licences are usually easy to end, but we check the terms.
Ground conditions
Old fuel or asbestos garage roofs need sensible handling.
In England, a planning permission normally has to be implemented within three years unless the council sets a different period, and councils aim to decide minor applications within eight weeks and major ones within thirteen.
Parts of Kent are Green Belt, though not every town has any nearby. We check early whether a site is inside it and, if so, whether a grey belt or previously developed land case could apply.
We are based in Great Barr, Birmingham, around 155 miles from Canterbury, and we travel to see sites across England and Wales.
How we could buy your land in Canterbury
Outright purchase
We agree a price and buy the land, with no planning condition attached.
Outright purchaseSubject-to-planning contract
We agree a price now and complete once a satisfactory planning permission is granted.
Subject-to-planning contractJoint venture
You contribute the land, we fund and manage planning and delivery, and the proceeds are shared as agreed.
Joint ventureThe next steps
Get in touch
Tell us where the land is and what you know about it.
Site review
We look at the land, its planning position and anything that could affect it.
Proposal
We put our proposal in writing, with no obligation to accept.
Exchange and completion
If you go ahead, contracts are exchanged and the sale completes on the agreed terms.
Garage courts and yards in Canterbury: common questions
Who else might have rights over the court?
Neighbours sometimes have rights of way across garage courts. We check the title and any deeds for this.
Do you buy council or housing association garages?
We are happy to discuss sites with public bodies and housing providers, subject to their own disposal rules.
Is Canterbury too far from our Birmingham base?
No. We are based in Great Barr, Birmingham, about 155 miles from Canterbury, and we look at land right across England and Wales.
How quickly can you look at a site in Canterbury?
For most sites we can give an initial view once we have the location and a plan. Detailed checks follow if the land looks suitable.