Thursday - October 29, 2009

LOCATION --- LOCATION --- LOCATION.  First rule of real estate. Right? Take a look.

Nothing for me to say and honestly I can’t think of anything to say. Except, well. Ah .... It’s interesting and I guess they won’t have to put up with trick or treaters once a year.

Buyer finally found for ‘exceptional fisherman’s cottage in nature reserve’...

By Nick Mcdermott
Last updated at 8:47 AM on 29th October 2009

It is certainly a property that makes heads turn - generally in the direction of the towering nuclear power stations just yards from the front door.

But the ‘exceptional detached fisherman’s cottage’, which hit the headlines last month after estate agents failed to mention in their sales pitch the sprawling site next door, has finally found a buyer.

Far from being put off by the prospect of living in the shadow of one of Europe’s largest nuclear power stations, an unnamed local has stumped up almost the complete asking price of £247,000 and plans to move in with his family.

Described by estate agents as a ‘property not to be missed’, they rather absent-mindedly omitted to inform prospective buyers the three-bedroom home was a stone’s throw from the looming presence of the Dungeness A and B power plants.

Despite their close proximity, they even managed to leave the concrete and steel eyesores out of the lovely panoramic shots of the area surrounding the cottage.

Unsurprisingly, many prospective buyers were shocked to arrive at the headland in Kent and see that the home is just 100 yards from the perimeter fence.

Alex Robertson, 32, was horrified he turned up to view the cottage.

He said: ‘It was unbelievable. The photos make out it is an isolated cottage with nothing surrounding it at all, but that could not be further from the truth.

‘These power stations are literally at your front door. There is no escaping them, they are gargantuan.’

But it seems that one prospective buyer has not been deterred.

After the advertisement was removed from its website, a spokeswoman for Geering & Colyer estate agents, of New Romney, said that the cottage had been snapped up.

He added: ‘It is under offer. It is close to the asking price. It is a local buyer who plans to live in the property with their family.’

Dungeness A power station was decommissioned in 2006 and is to be turned into an intermediate waste store in 2014. Dungeness B, an advanced cooled reactor, still operates and there are plans to build a third plant, Dungeness C, nearby.

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