Property News · July 8, 2016

Let’s move to Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire: ‘It’s used to lofty visitors’


It’s nice, but is it £1m nice?What’s going for it? The Black Prince, eldest son of Edward III, ran the manor in the 14th century, and since then Risborough’s got quite used to lofty visitors. Xi Jinping popped in for a pint last year, and all manner of dignitaries pass through at some point in their lives, thanks to Chequers being just outside town. As a result, Princes Risborough has become something of a museum exhibit, with which prime ministers can demonstrate What Britain Is Like to celebrities whose only exposure to Blighty has hitherto been watching Harry Potter in their private cinemas. I’m not sure how representative a town can be when properties routinely hug £1m, but on the surface Princes Risborough does the job. It supplies all the signifiers of a certain kind of modest Englishness (cricket on the green, warm beer in pubs, half-timber, bit of thatch, gentle wooded hills) a short hop from the capital (and, for those slebs, the private jet at Northolt airfield).The case against It’s not all that. I mean it’s nice, but is it £1m nice? Nimbys (even newly arrived nimbys) might moan about the 2,500 new homes and bypass planned for the town. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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