North Cornwall · EX22
New Builds for Week St Mary (EX22)
A bespoke new build is the longest project we do, and the most rewarding. From plot appraisal through planning, building regulations and construction, you work with one team from the first sketch to the handover walk-round. Working in Week St Mary means starting from the EX22 context — Week St Mary is a rural parish in the EX22 area, with farmsteads, lanes and scattered homes defining its built character, with a building stock that leans toward scattered modern homes and converted barns.
Week St Mary sits in North Cornwall — covering EX22 from Bude, Stratton, Poughill outward.
- Rural / open-countryside policy area
- ✓ Same team on paper as on site
- ✓ Fixed-fee planning packages, no surprise invoices
- ✓ Local to North Cornwall — not a national franchise
- ✓ One studio — design, planning and build under one roof
Our process
How a Week St Mary new build project runs.
Step 1
Plot review
Site visit, planning history check, designation review and an honest feasibility verdict.
Step 2
Concept design
Sketches that test the plot in massing, orientation and approach before any drawings are committed.
Step 3
Planning
Pre-app, full planning, consultee management and condition discharge.
Step 4
Technical design and build prep
Building regs, structural design, services strategy and contractor procurement.
Step 5
Construction and handover
Build delivered under contract administration with regular client reviews.
Most bespoke new builds run eighteen to thirty months from instruction to keys, depending on site, planning route and build complexity.
Local proof — Recent new build enquiries from Week St Mary have clustered around scattered modern homes — we know the route through Cornwall Council on these.
Get a free feasibility viewWhat we focus on
New Builds considerations specific to Week St Mary.
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Cornwall's housing policy increasingly favours principal residence and replacement dwelling schemes over open-market new builds in some parishes.
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AONB and Heritage Coast designations apply to large stretches of the county; isolated new builds outside settlement boundaries face a much higher policy bar.
03
Off-grid services — package treatment plants, borehole supply, off-mains gas — are common on rural Cornish plots and need designing, not assuming.
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Replacement dwellings have specific volumetric tests — getting the ratio between existing footprint and proposed floor area right is the difference between approval and refusal.
Local context
Why Week St Mary is its own job.
In Week St Mary the planning picture is specific: open-countryside policy, access lanes, drainage and agricultural building history all need to be addressed before drawings go too far. For new build specifically, Cornwall Council's Local Plan applies tighter tests to isolated rural dwellings here, so design rationale and policy fit need to be set out clearly from the outset. That local reading is what makes a Week St Mary (EX22) project different from a generic Cornwall scheme — and is the whole reason we work this way. On scattered modern homes in particular — the kind you'll also find toward Flexbury — the new build brief always has to read the existing fabric first.
Planning note
Cornwall's planning policy on new dwellings is among the most restrictive in England outside Greater London. The first conversation should be a planning conversation, not a design one.
Local watch-list
Common Week St Mary pitfalls we plan around.
Watch #1
Tighter Local Plan tests on isolated rural dwellings
Week St Mary is part of Bude
Week St Mary sits inside the Bude catchment — we cover both as one new build territory.
See New Builds in Bude →Local fabric
One EX22 studio, one new build job — start to finish.
Building stock
Across Week St Mary (EX22) we work on farmhouses, converted barns, rural cottages, smallholdings, scattered modern homes. Each stock type drives a different new build response — scattered modern homes in particular needs careful detailing here.
Parish & policy
Week St Mary sits in the parish of Week St Mary, which matters for how parish-level consultation lands on a new build application.
Coverage
We cover EX22 from our studio, with regular new build jobs also running in Bude, Stratton, Poughill. Most Week St Mary site visits get booked within the same week.
Can you handle both planning and build in Week St Mary?
Yes — design, planning, building regs and full construction run under one roof. For clients with an existing Week St Mary builder we can stop at a tender-ready Full Plans pack instead.
Request a free visitWho this is for
Week St Mary runs the full mix — owner-occupier, holiday-let, commercial and the occasional smallholding — so we scope every new build enquiry from the use-class up.
FAQs
Week St Mary New Builds — local questions answered.
- What about utilities, drainage and access?
- All designed and applied for as part of the package — water, electric, off-mains drainage where mains isn't viable, and highways access agreement with Cornwall Council where required. In Week St Mary specifically, we'd start by checking the latest parish-level planning history before committing to a direction.
- What's a replacement dwelling and is mine eligible?
- If a habitable dwelling exists on the plot, you can often replace it — within volumetric and design constraints set by Cornwall's Local Plan. Derelict structures sometimes qualify, sometimes don't, depending on lawful use history.
- How long does the whole project take?
- Allow six to twelve months for design and approvals, then ten to fourteen months on site for a typical four-bedroom new build. Complex sites or long planning routes extend that.
- Can you handle a self-build for me?
- Yes — from feasibility to handover. Many of our clients start as 'self-builders' on paper, then hand the actual build to us once they realise how much project management it takes.
- How much does a new build cost?
- Realistic budgets in Cornwall start around £2,800 per square metre for a good-quality build and rise quickly with bespoke joinery, large glazing, complex sites and high-spec finishes. We work to your number, not against it.
Other services in Week St Mary
Nearby places we cover
If you're balancing ambition against EX22 planning realism, our Week St Mary new build work threads that needle without the usual drama.