\n The barns, which form part of his Grade II-listed farm, will be used for storage as part of a wider project to create a recording complex, after the plans were approved by Mid Suffolk District Council.\n<\/p>\n
\n The singer, who already owns a 16-acre estate nearby, plans to restore the 19th-century outbuildings as part of his expanding “Sheeranville” property.\n<\/p>\n
\n Documents reveal the reasons for Sheeran getting approval, saying: “The proposed use of the outbuildings is storage\/archive space for the owner\/family only and there will be no additional vehicles, lighting, equipment installed.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The scheme has drawn comparisons to EMI\u2019s famed Abbey Road studio in St John’s Wood, north London, where The Beatles recorded most of their output.\n<\/p>\n
\n After taking pre-planning advice, Mr Sheeran dropped plans to link the barns directly to the main farmhouse.\n<\/p>\n
\n He has promised to repair and restore the buildings, adding windows, doors, and staircases while preserving their original character.\n<\/p>\n
\n The planning officer\u2019s report said: “Whilst the site occupies a countryside location, the proposal does not constitute new isolated development unrelated to its surroundings.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Rather, it represents the sensitive restoration and continued ancillary use of an established group of buildings within an existing residential curtilage.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Ecologists supported the project, noting a low flood risk and a positive impact on the historic farm.\n<\/p>\n
\n The application stated: “The main ethos of the proposed development is to reinstate the outbuildings in their original form \u2013 this will be achieved by restoring the partially deteriorated\/collapsed elements to the form, scale and design of the original buildings.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Work on other parts of the site has progressed slowly due to the use of hand tools and the presence of protected great crested newts, which require a special licence.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Sheeran has also pledged to create a “species rich, flowering lawn” with 19 types of flowers and to plant 12 fruit trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The barns, which form part of his Grade II-listed farm, will be used for storage as part of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-817857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}