Property News · August 19, 2016

Let’s move to Lowestoft, Suffolk: it’s faded – but what a beach


This old seaside town is not going to do a Margate any time soonWhat’s going for it? I’m not sure all the cupcake-yarn-bombing-vintage-craft-beer-artisan-cream-horn-emporia in the country could entirely resuscitate Lowestoft. This old seaside town is not going to do a Margate any time soon. The shiny bollards and benches installed, I’d guess, sometime during the reign of Tony Blair have failed to spark any “urban renaissance”… ah, remember that? The dedicated spotter of regeneration schemes can I-Spy decades of attempts to put the fizz back in Lowestoft, decimated by the double whammy decline of its port and its seaside punters. The middle classes, who dominate the Suffolk coast to the south, have here fled inland to the comfort of Oulton Broad. This is strange. Because Lowestoft, for all its For Sale signs, shares the same bone structure: that easterly bleakness, municipal gardens, beach huts, dunes, Blue Flagged strands with sand as soft as talc, a pretty, pantiled high street the image of anything in Aldeburgh. Their loss.The case against Extensively shabby, drab and deprived, with little cheer on the horizon. Schools are a mixed bag. Getting from here to anywhere else (even Great Yarmouth) can be a trial. Traffic can clog in the centre when the bridges are raised. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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