Fury in UK seaside town as owners can’t sell Britain’s most expensive beach huts | UK | News
The owners of the UK’s most expensive beach huts blame the hikes in proportions and taxes for a collapse on the market. Nine wooden huts on the Mueford Spit in the port of Christchhurch in Dorset were sold to nine wooden huts, the united value is £ 3.8 million. According to BNPS reports, it is highly sought -after and reported that they have not been on sale for a long time, because distant and special locations and striking sea landscapes mean that property can command a higher price tag than the average England home. However, an unusual number of high number is currently in the market and the tide wants concerns that it opens the popular point.
The Council, directed by the Liberal Democrat, has been accused of using the owners of beach huts as “cash cows” after increasing the annual license fees for the beach huts in Mudord in the last two years, and a 5% increase was planned for the next year. Transfer fees to anyone who sells their huts to a new owner by the Council are currently £ 23.100.
‘It costs me more expensive than Claridge’s’
Stephen Bath, a hut in Mudord, said: “The Council uses the beach huts as a cash cow because in terrible financial conditions.
“This is what makes people try to sell hereditary owners who cannot meet their rental walks.
“The council gets cheeky, I don’t care who pays the rent.
“Also, more recently, people who buy from outside the city think it’s ridiculous.
“Staying on the beach costs more expensive than staying in a place like Claridge’s.”
“The Council uses us as a cash cow, but they always did it.
“However, in the last three years, wages have increased dramatically, we are sitting ducks.
“15 percent two years ago, 15 percent last year, this year and the next two years increased by five percent.
“I didn’t know it was on sale too much, it’s high. But there are many factors.
“Every penny from the beach huts is placed in a saucepan and none of them return to Kum Bank.
“Loos is in a state of evil.
“The owners who have huts for generations and do not pay much for them can no longer afford to pay thousands of license fees, and when someone dies, the Council still wants to get the quantities of gaspic to transfer ownership.
“The cost of the life crisis may postpone people and taxes people who have money to pay £ 350,000 for a beach hut.”
BCP Council’s entertainment and target portfolio member of the Assembly Member Richard Herrett, beach huts for rent income “in the important façade services of the residents every day – adult social care and child services”, such as re -investment, he said.
The Council said that the five -year pricing structure brought in 2022 is simplifying the service by allowing everyone to know the annual cost of beach huts by 2027/28.
“Despite the increasing financial restrictions faced by many local authorities, the Council, as a result of national pressures, remained bound to this transparent pricing strategy and directed it to the future.”
