London has a sense of energy and vibrancy like no other city. And if you are thinking of moving to or within the capital, you want to be in the heart of the action, or close to good transport links. The London rental sector is so vast, and so varied, that it remains highly competitive even in premium areas. […]
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Your article’s description of a property in Southwater (Fantasy house hunt, 18 January) may give the impression that Berkeley Homes benevolently provided the facilities mentioned as new to the village. In fact, the sports and social club, including the cricket pavilion, cricket and football pitches and playground, had been in existence for many years. However, as part of their massive housing development encompassed all the land they were on, they simply replaced the existing buildings and facilities further up the hill on the edge of an unremarkable estate.
G Butler
Southwater, West Sussex
• Thank you for a marvellously readable Journal on Thursday: Owen Jones on crime, punishment and rehabilitation; Martin Kettle on Brexit; Suzanne Moore; a wonderful obituary on Terry Jones by Stuart Jeffries; a long-overdue long read on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe by Patrick Wintour. And I haven’t even mentioned the letters page. Worth every penny of my subscription.
Jan Jeffries
Brewood, Staffordshire
Many will run for the hills, but others find its squelchy fields, sluice gates and forlorn villages impossibly romantic
What’s going for it? It takes a certain someone to love Romney Marsh. That someone happens to be me. Many will gaze at its landscape of squelchy flat fields, sluice gates and forlorn, atmospheric villages, and run for the hills, as they did for centuries. Some, though, will find them all impossibly romantic and fabulously attractive. The neighbourhood did seem to attract those certain someones: Noel Coward, for instance, or Edith Nesbit, seeking escape in a spot lifted above the day-to-day in its own existential universe. It’s hard to fathom exactly where Romney Marsh gets its particular character from. Its history of malarial marshes and smugglers’ haunts hangs about like a miasma. The blank landscape is peppered with remote medieval villages, astonishing churches, such as at Fairfield, built on the riches of the wool trade, and flat-faced postwar bungalows, staring out to sea. Or perhaps it’s this landscape’s own peculiar geographical history that is so attractive, its sense of temporariness, of the mastery of nature. The fortunes of Romney Marsh and its inhabitants have risen and fallen with the tides, and the accumulation of silt and shingle. These flatlands, just north of Dungeness, were once the English Channel, the now redundant cliffs arcing miles from the sea, from Hythe to Rye. This patch of land has only been lent to Britain by the waves, and the waves might want it back some day.
The case against Bleak. Roads that turn and twist violently, dangerously, with the ditches.
Continue reading...Many will run for the hills, but others find its squelchy fields, sluice gates and forlorn villages impossibly romantic
What’s going for it? It takes a certain someone to love Romney Marsh. That someone happens to be me. Many will gaze at its landscape of squelchy flat fields, sluice gates and forlorn, atmospheric villages, and run for the hills, as they did for centuries. Some, though, will find them all impossibly romantic and fabulously attractive. The neighbourhood did seem to attract those certain someones: Noel Coward, for instance, or Edith Nesbit, seeking escape in a spot lifted above the day-to-day in its own existential universe. It’s hard to fathom exactly where Romney Marsh gets its particular character from. Its history of malarial marshes and smugglers’ haunts hangs about like a miasma. The blank landscape is peppered with remote medieval villages, astonishing churches, such as at Fairfield, built on the riches of the wool trade, and flat-faced postwar bungalows, staring out to sea. Or perhaps it’s this landscape’s own peculiar geographical history that is so attractive, its sense of temporariness, of the mastery of nature. The fortunes of Romney Marsh and its inhabitants have risen and fallen with the tides, and the accumulation of silt and shingle. These flatlands, just north of Dungeness, were once the English Channel, the now redundant cliffs arcing miles from the sea, from Hythe to Rye. This patch of land has only been lent to Britain by the waves, and the waves might want it back some day.
The case against Bleak. Roads that turn and twist violently, dangerously, with the ditches.
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Continue reading...Are you looking to buy your first home? Nick Manson, Director of Mansons, in Jesmond, Newcastle, talks us through how best to prepare before making an offer Being a first time buyer can be hard work, stressful and nerve-racking. Chances are that you won’t necessarily know the market and it’s easy to be blind-sided by […]
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Help-to-buy scheme has helped 25- to 34-year-olds get on property ladder, say analysts
The proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds who own their own home in England has increased for the first time in over a decade, according to official figures.
The latest English Housing Survey found that 41% of people in the age bracket live in a home they own, with the same proportion living in private rented accommodation. This is the reversal of the trend seen in the decade after 2003-04, during which the number of young owner occupiers fell from 59% to 36%.
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