Creating better places where people want to live and work

Who are Ashill Land?

Ashill Land Ltd is focused on delivering our current projects in various locations across the South East of England. The team are working closely with our Local Authority and County level officers and members, local residents and stakeholders on all our projects. This ongoing, genuine consultation is imperative to ensure that the developments we bring forward are well designed, of a high quality, sustainable, sensitive to their surroundings, and socially and environmentally responsible.

The Ashill team has a collective wealth of experience in the property development sector and an impressive track record of successfully bringing forward high-quality and bespoke residential, mixed-use, and commercial developments in Southern England, particularly in Greater London and the Home Counties. A highly-experienced expert team capable of finding solutions to the most difficult and sensitive land and planning scenarios. Ashill takes a responsive and pro-active approach to every project, with a special focus on community consultation and a commitment to bespoke design.

In addition to owning some of the freehold sites ourselves, we also work in partnership with landowners to promote the land for development.

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Examples of current Ashill Land Projects

Chessington Garrison Lane

Chessington

Garrison Lane View
In progress
  • Promotion Agreement in place.
  • The site, measuring circa 28 acres, is formally a golf driving range and pitch and putt course, but this closed some time ago with the land being left vacant and disused.
  • Located on the edge of the urban area and situated immediatly opposite an overland train station, the land has potential for a sustainable and sensitive redevelopment to provided much needed new homes, open scpae and community uses.
Ottershaw Foxhills Road

Ottershaw

Foxhills Road View
In progress
  • Promotion Agreement in place with the landowners.
  • Site area of 120 acres currently used as a Christmas Tree Farm.
  • Conceptual masterplan in development to provide new homes plus a range of community uses including SANG, open space, recreational, educational and medical facilities.
Godalming Ockford Park

Godalming

Ockford Park View
In progress
  • Promotion Agreement in place with the landowners.
  • The land, measuring a total of 50 acres, is part within Waverley Borough Council and part within Guildford Borough Council. An additional 29 acres of farmland to the south west of the site has been identified as a potential Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG).
  • The redevelopment of the land would provide much needed housing, as well as large areas of valuable public open space, within a sustainable location a short distance from the train station and town centre.
  • A planning application for 262 new homes has been approved by Waverley Borough Council, and a separate application for the SANG has been appoved by Guildford Borough Council.
  • The appoved scheme in WBC is being built in association with CALA Homes, while the further land in GBC will be made available for more new homes should GBC require this to meet their housing supply requirements.
Godstone Bletchingly Road

Godstone

Bletchingly Road View
In progress
  • Promotion Agreement in place with the landowners.
  • The site, containing two former quarries, comprises 54 acres of land immediately adjoining the western boundary of Godstone.
  • The land is being promoted through the Local Plan process for a sensitive development of new homes which compliments the village, and privides new public open spaces, woodland and ecological enhancements.
  • The development proposed will include 140 new homes with 70 homes for affordbale housing managed by a registered provider, very high standards of sustainability and renewable energy, a new village car park and new doctros surgery, and signifcant biodiversity net gains. throughout the green spaces.

Chessington Garrison Lane

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Garrison Lane View
In progress
  • Promotion Agreement in place.
  • The site, measuring circa 28 acres, is formally a golf driving range and pitch and putt course, but this closed some time ago with the land being left vacant and disused.
  • Located on the edge of the urban area and situated immediatly opposite an overland train station, the land has potential for a sustainable and sensitive redevelopment to provided much needed new homes, open scpae and community uses.
Ottershaw Foxhills Road

Ottershawasd

Foxhills Road View
In progress
  • Promotion Agreement in place with the landowners.
  • Site area of 120 acres currently used as a Christmas Tree Farm.
  • Conceptual masterplan in development to provide new homes plus a range of community uses including SANG, open space, recreational, educational and medical facilities.
Godalming Ockford Park

Godalmingasd

Ockford Park View
In progress
  • Promotion Agreement in place with the landowners.
  • The land, measuring a total of 50 acres, is part within Waverley Borough Council and part within Guildford Borough Council. An additional 29 acres of farmland to the south west of the site has been identified as a potential Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG).
  • The redevelopment of the land would provide much needed housing, as well as large areas of valuable public open space, within a sustainable location a short distance from the train station and town centre.
  • A planning application for 262 new homes has been approved by Waverley Borough Council, and a separate application for the SANG has been appoved by Guildford Borough Council.
  • The appoved scheme in WBC is being built in association with CALA Homes, while the further land in GBC will be made available for more new homes should GBC require this to meet their housing supply requirements.
Godstone Bletchingly Road

Godstoneasd

Bletchingly Road View
In progress
  • Promotion Agreement in place with the landowners.
  • The site, containing two former quarries, comprises 54 acres of land immediately adjoining the western boundary of Godstone.
  • The land is being promoted through the Local Plan process for a sensitive development of new homes which compliments the village, and privides new public open spaces, woodland and ecological enhancements.
  • The development proposed will include 140 new homes with 70 homes for affordbale housing managed by a registered provider, very high standards of sustainability and renewable energy, a new village car park and new doctros surgery, and signifcant biodiversity net gains. throughout the green spaces.

The Ashill Land Team

Ben Boyce Managing Director bb@ashillgroup.co.uk

Ben joined Ashill in June 2008 from Linden Homes as a Land Manager, and later assumed the role as Managing Director in June 2014. Ben is responsible for the day to day running of the company and oversees all projects.

Steve Lavers Chairman sl@ashillgroup.co.uk

Further to a career working in house building Steve formed Ashill with Philip Davies on the 1st June 2008. When the group was restructured in June 2014 Steve passed the day-to-day running of the business to the Management Team headed up by Ben Boyce. Steve is still very much involved with the management of the business and project strategy.

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Philip Davies Non-Executive Director pjd@ashillgroup.co.uk

From 1982-1990 Philip represented the UK and American Homes Divisions on the PLC board of Alfred McAlpine PLC.

In 1991, Philip left Alfred McAlpine to form Linden with funding from HBoS. The company focussed almost entirely on Brownfield opportunities for residential and mixed use developments.

Corporate acquisitions followed but in 2000 Philip wanted to accelerate growth from all five regions and worked with HBoS to fund a management buy-out. Linden was sold to Galliford Try PLC for £245m in March 2007.

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Steve Forman Director sf@ashillgroup.co.uk 0787 6644 248

Prior to joining Ashill in 2011 Steve spent ten years as a planning consultant working with developers seeking planning permissions for residential and mixed-use schemes across London and the south East. He has been a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute since 2003.

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Tracy Puttock Planning & Communications tp@ashillgroup.co.uk 07887761878

Having been a planning officer in local government for 13 years, Tracy moved to the private sector in 2001 to join Antler Homes and then moved to Linden Homes South East in 2004. At Linden Tracy successfully delivered numerous planning permissions for residential and mixed use developments ranging from small scale developments of 12 apartments to large mixed use 'community' developments of 500 homes.

At Ashill Tracy co-ordinates planning applications which involves the management of the project consultant team, interaction with the local authority and statutory consultees, and the engagement with local residents and stakeholders. Ashill takes pride in its commitment to thorough community consultation and understands the importance of listening to local opinion and making changes wherever possible.

Our Development Partners

After the planning and site preparation phases are complete, we work with various Housebuilders and Housing Associations to deliver our developments.