How Would the Project Benefit the Village?
- A genuinely led Community-based Project for the whole Community
- With an annual turnover of approximately £500,000
- The chance to ease the financial burden on Northiam residents, by generating enough income through the Project's work to eventually service the repayments on the government-backed loan taken out to purchase the site
- Provision for a new permanent Village Pub
- Integrating 12 affordable rental cottages for local residents and those with a connection to the Village
- Creating local employment and volunteering opportunities
- Integrating 11 rest and relaxation cottages available to rent by the wider general public creating the main income stream for the Project
- Embracing environmentally friendly renewable technologies in the project without impacting on the aesthetics of both the landscape and the buildings, i.e ground source heat pumps with vertical collectors
- A new natural burial site close to St. Mary's Church
- Grants and donations for the local community, due to the project's charitable status and social enterprise initiative i.e help with contributing towards local school projects, crossing patrols, or Village Hall Trust, etc
- Maintaining the Historic link with horses at the site by including five new heavy horse stables and a further eight stables for either "in-house" benefit or livery
- Provision for a small combined shop and tearoom
- Promotes a stress-free natural environment, which in turn helps to look after our mental and physical wellbeing
- Establishing a beautiful and unique long-lasting legacy for Northiam and the surrounding area
- Creating a number of exhibition fields of manageable size worked in the traditional way throughout the project, highlighting our relationship with the land prior to modern day tractors
- Provides a unison of living, working, and enjoyment of the land
- Bridleway and footpath access throughout the whole of the site
- Designed to give all properties both on the site, or existing around the site views of open farmland, orchard, paddock, pasture, or wildflower meadow
- Creating a site of National Historic Significance
- Educational facility housed in one of the barns near the "Thatches Pond"
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