The "have a look at this!" thread II

moneyistooshorttomention

Waffle_On wrote: »

This has to be my next home..... a private beach with electricity!


http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-30010950.html

Nice.

Though I wouldn't be bargaining on that beach remaining "private" if I bought it.

I find the whole concept of a private beach very odd and, if I were out in a boat and wanted a "private" beach to relax on, I'd automatically pull in on that one and use it and the thought wouldn't even cross my mine that someone might have decided they own it. In this country we take it as read that all beaches are ours.

booksurr

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I find the whole concept of a private beach very odd

you are not alone in being such a rebel http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/lines-in-the-sand-the-right-to-roam-on-british-beaches-411795.html although why ownership of a bit of sand is somehow different to ownership of the lawn in the front garden is a matter of debate

LisbonLaura

Old_Git wrote: »

pic 6 is the oil tank for the central heating ,pic 10 has a bathroom but the toilet had no cistern ,so it may well be a plunger hanging on the wall

Deary me, that's two competitions wrecked with no thought to GG's sensibilities
Plus there is a cistern, just not very much of it.

Next?

cloo

MortgageVirgin wrote: »

Bloody students!


http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-46602689.html

The garden! :eek:

System

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-45523223.html

Erm, what is the point of pic 7?

System

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-30213720.html

1950s Hygenia kitchen.

Modern basin in a time warp bathroom

moneyistooshorttomention

booksurr wrote: »

you are not alone in being such a rebel http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/lines-in-the-sand-the-right-to-roam-on-british-beaches-411795.html although why ownership of a bit of sand is somehow different to ownership of the lawn in the front garden is a matter of debate

I couldn't explain to you just why people (most people) feel that way. I guess its because we know that people are paying for their front gardens and have walls around them (usually) designating "That's my territory this side and its not my territory that side". So maybe its down to beaches being open to nature (and all of us) by their very nature?? Maybe partly its because most of us (including me) have never come across a beach someone is saying they own in this country and automatically think "Its a beach...so I can go on it"? I've lived abroad before now in a set-up that involved going off to a private-owned beach with the owners...so I know there are a few privately-owned beaches elsewhere in the world, but, like most us, just "know" that none of our British beaches are iyswim.

That article was an interesting read. I wonder what happened after that? We all know about the Coast Path to walk on and how awkward some people have been about it in some places, but I wonder what has happened about actual beaches themselves after that article (as I see its 2006 it was published).

I know there are Coast Path problems in some places (ie because of a few landowners not allowing the coast path to be on the coast), but just take it that "Never mind, if people can find an alternative way to get to the foreshore, as we obviously are "allowed" there, because its obviously "ours". I would just be looking for the fence or wall that designated "dividing line between our beach and their land".

booksurr

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

That article was an interesting read. I wonder what happened after that?

a law was enacted
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/23/contents

progress to date since then:
http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/access/coastalaccess/default.aspx
given that the majority of the littoral is not owned by the crown (although some of the rest is in "public" hands eg: MOD) ploughing the footpath through requires negotiation with the respective landowners which certainly includes those with "private" beaches

you will note that the South West coast path was already extant and therefore no further work required down there, so the private beach in #14585 will remain private so Kate Bush, J Clarkson et al can carry on undisturbed by the masses

picket_fence

ScarletMarble wrote: »

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-30213720.html

1950s Hygenia kitchen.

Modern basin in a time warp bathroom

And a spot the EA/owner

LisbonLaura

cloo wrote: »

The garden! :eek:

It's grass baby, just grass :cool: