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Property in Staines-upon-Thames

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  • Surrey_EA
    Surrey_EA Posts: 2,042 Forumite
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    aneary wrote: »
    Well my parents live in 'South Chertsey' according to the EA.

    I once saw a property located smack in the middle of Addlestone advertised as "West Weybridge" :rotfl:
  • aneary
    aneary Posts: 921 Forumite
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    Surrey_EA wrote: »
    I once saw a property located smack in the middle of Addlestone advertised as "West Weybridge" :rotfl:

    That is mad although the houses in Weybridge are about 25% more than the houses in Addlestone.
  • 00ec25
    00ec25 Posts: 9,123 Forumite
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    Surrey_EA wrote: »
    I once saw a property located smack in the middle of Addlestone advertised as "West Weybridge" :rotfl:
    aghast at such an obvious missed opportunity, surely that should have been "near" St Georges Hill
  • 00ec25
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    AdrianC wrote: »
    There might be a clue in the name of Staines-upon-Thames as to why there's flood risks in the area...

    A large amount of money has been spent mitigating flooding risk since the 2014 floods, but all that can really be done is give high water levels a bit of a hint that they'd rather go elsewhere.
    yes but the point is the flooding was not just the Thames, a lot of what caught out locals who watched the Thames levels was in fact pluvial

    and if one accepts local gossip the defences are designed to protect the "posh" areas upstream around Maidenhead and Windsor by making us their soakaway/floodplain - which geologically speaking we are anyway, hence the road from Staines bridge to the M25 is named The Causeway
  • aneary
    aneary Posts: 921 Forumite
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    If you live in Chertsey you get a giant sausage as a defence
  • martinsurrey
    martinsurrey Posts: 3,368 Forumite
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    aneary wrote: »
    That is mad although the houses in Weybridge are about 25% more than the houses in Addlestone.

    and the rest!

    walking distance of Weybridge highstreet 4 beds £789k

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-49779024.html

    walking distance of Addlestone highstreet 5 beds £440k
    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-48694914.html


    80% more! for a smaller place.
  • aneary
    aneary Posts: 921 Forumite
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    martinsurrey wrote: »
    and the rest!

    walking distance of Weybridge highstreet 4 beds £789k

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-49779024.html

    walking distance of Addlestone highstreet 5 beds £440k
    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-48694914.html


    80% more! for a smaller place.

    But to be fair if you have children, abbylands or heathside....
  • 00ec25
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    martinsurrey wrote: »
    walking distance of Addlestone highstreet 5 beds £440k
    but my dear boy, that is (horrors) ex-council :eek:
  • martinsurrey
    martinsurrey Posts: 3,368 Forumite
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    00ec25 wrote: »
    but my dear boy, that is (horrors) ex-council :eek:

    may be ex council but it'll never be ex Addlestone! :eek:
  • AdrianC
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    00ec25 wrote: »
    and if one accepts local gossip the defences are designed to protect the "posh" areas upstream around Maidenhead and Windsor

    Gotta love a good conspiracy theory...
    by making us their soakaway/floodplain

    <looks pointedly at Runnymede and towards Wraysbury>
    which geologically speaking we are anyway, hence the road from Staines bridge to the M25 is named The Causeway

    I know. I used to work at Lotus Park.
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