J Peiser Wainwright Brings Westbury House, Swanage To The Market
J Peiser Wainwright has been instructed to sell Westbury House, a former nursing home with planning permission for 10 residential flats.
The 0.22 acre site occupies a central location in the seaside resort of Swanage on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset.
from http://www.build.co.uk/construction_news.asp?newsid=120101
Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 12:23 PM
Friday, December 03, 2010
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Yippee. More flats for second home owners!!!!!
Absolutely, and if we give them what they want they will come all summer and most winter weekends.
Question is, how many of these will be affordable. Core Strat = 50% of 10, thats 5 affordable then...so not bad. Will PDC be able to enforce this or will we find that it is only enforcable on new developments.
So 5 could be homes throughout the year. Bring on the affordable housing.
How dare people from outside the fort walls bring in their money!! Seriously....change the tune. Very dull.
By rights they should all be affordable flats, but profits also need to be made by developers. 50% affordable housing - if right - is a great start.
The planning permission to build flats on this site was granted two years ago so I am a little surprised it has been given the heading "Westbury House to be flats" as we all knew about that. Perhaps Mr Postman had forgotten. The news is that the site has been put up for sale by the firm which bought it after it closed as a home. Its yours for £1.2 million with pp for 10 flats.
Oh 1.2 million...mmm not so affordable then. So many flats up for sale in Swanage, is this what the market is really crying out for.
Think last poster misunderstood. Yes a good thing to 50% affordable and yes to new blood, but wondering though, what happens when all the market housing is owned by second home owners. This could easily happen as in Cornwall and elsewhere.
Definitely has to be a good mix - healthy for any community. But we need to have a robust local school system and healthcare system, along with an influx of new industry (whether that's a business park, telecoms, new online businesses based in Swanage).
It's a beautiful seaside town which inevitably raises the price of accomodation in and around the seafront - that'll never change as long as people want to come to Swanage. In fact, with a connection to Wareham, more people will be visiting and potentially wanting to live down here and/or buy a second home. And those that are here for however many months of the year still pay the same tax and rates as all of us - but actually don't use the resources. In that respect, who gets the worst deal?
With a connection to Wareham, this will also create a link for residents to find work and commute more easily. And with a commitment to fibre broadband, we can begin to create a more stable Swanage.
I'm interested in buying this :-D
I think by affordable the lower end flats will be around £150,000 to £200,000 and the rest will be nearer £300,000
Affordable is newspeak for rented out by a social landlord, which latter term is itself newspeak for housing association. Nothing to do with building and selling small and hence relatively cheap flats. Affordable in effect means something you are not allowed to buy.
Perhaps we need a glossary of such linguistic innovations, the latest being "welfare reform" which means income cutting. So if you can't work you will have less money to pay the cost of renting something which is affordable but cannot be bought. I'm going back through the looking glass.
'Affordable' to Swanage locals is under 100k for a one bed flat. Anything above that is unaffordable.
No doubt but that is not what the term means when it is used by official bodies.
Official bodies are not real people living real lives.
Fatuous remark
But true.
And those that are here for however many months of the year still pay the same tax and rates as all of us - but actually don't use the resources. In that respect, who gets the worst deal?
Sorry, but I really don't understand your point. A 10% discount for not living here is fair??!! Whilst the rest of us paying 100% council tax work hard within our communities, empty the bins, fill up our schools, use the post office stores, libraries, restaurants, pubs..I think the 90% ers should pay more, to PDC for all of us locals to maintain the rural weekend playground.
Following the logic of the previous post, why not place toll barriers at the two main routes and charge outlanders by the carload, like the National Trust at Studland or the chain ferry do. After all, they use the same amenities as the residents.
How much of the rates go to STC? Most go to PDC.
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