by The owners of the most expensive beach huts of Great Britain have blamed the Council to make real estate less desirable for potential buyers.
Eight wooden huts with a combined value of 3.8 million pounds were offered for sale at Mudeford spit in the port of Christchurch, Dorset. The huts have a price of 395,000 GBP and 439,000 GBP – more than the average Great Britain real estate price.
The real estate often sells very quickly due to their exclusive location and their views of the lake. Last year they sold in less than 24 hours for £ 485,000.
The unusually high number that is currently on the market has to consider that the sheet may be turning on a once lucrative market.
Financially qualified bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council (BCP) were accused of using beach hat owners as “cash cows”.
The annual HUT license fee has risen by 30 percent to 3,240 GBP in the past two years, with another 5 percent increasing for the next year. This applies in addition to the transmission fee of 23,100 GBP.
Stephen Bath, who has one of the 346 huts in Mudeford, said: “The council uses the beach huts as a money cow because they are in bad financial circumstances.
“I think that prompted people to try to sell hereditary owners who cannot afford the rental hikes.
“The council is cheeky – they don’t care who pays the rent. In addition, people who have bought over recent time also become the gozing that it will be ridiculous. It costs more to stay on the beach than stay in a place like Claridge.”
At the beginning of this month, BCP warned that it should be forced to communicate a formal explanation of effective bankruptcy without more instructions from the government about how the severe cash flow crisis is connected to the growing special education requirement and disability deficit.
Richard Herrett, the portfolio owner of the Council for Leisure and goal, said the rental income for his beach huts enables him to reinvested in “crucial front services to which the residents abandoned every day and social care for adults and children.
The Council said the five -year price structure, which was introduced in 2022, simplified the service “so that everyone knows the annual costs for beach huts by 2027/28”.
He added: “Despite the increasing financial restrictions with which many local authorities are confronted due to national pressure, the advice of this transparent price strategy has remained and will do so in the future.”
