Property News · November 6, 2010

Let's move to St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex


Its fortune is ongoing, says Tom DyckhoffWhat’s going for it? Hastings and St Leonards are conjoined twins. And rivals. They glare at each other from either side of their shared cleft in the South Downs cliffs. Where one ends and the other begins is anyone’s guess. Mine? Around the appropriately named Bohemia Road. Once you’re in St Leonards, you know it. It has wonderful bone structure. Developer-architect James Burton, and his more illustrious son Decimus, developed the resort in the early 19th century. If its grander terraces and squares remind you of statelier parts of London, that’s because the Burtons had already cut their teeth laying out patches of Marylebone and Belgravia. Its fortune continued as Hastings’ ran out: time, developers and chain stores have ravaged it less. Today it’s one part retired great aunt, one part rogueish Regency bounder, two parts 20s Bright Young Thing and a dash of 60s hippy.The case against Gets a bit shabby towards Hastings. Seaside dereliction a-plenty. What are they going to do with Marine Court, that listed behemoth of 20s flats on the front? Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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