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‘I knew I would live here one day’

Freddie Pack is no stranger to a renovation. The farmer used to be self-employed in the construction industry and built his previous home, a compact cabin for him and his now-wife Katie, on his family’s farm on the beautiful Romney Marsh in Kent. Fast forward a few years and the couple had saved enough money to build something a little roomier.

In 2018, they started looking at obtaining planning permission on another site on the farm, just a few fields away, where there was an existing property. ‘I would always drive past and think, “One day I am going to live on that plot.” When you have

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