{"id":20276,"date":"2009-06-27T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-walton-and-weybridge-surrey\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T11:47:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T04:47:19","slug":"lets-move-to-walton-and-weybridge-surrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-walton-and-weybridge-surrey\/","title":{"rendered":"Let's move to … Walton and Weybridge, Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWalton and Weybridge is incredibly posh, but you’d be mad not to move hereWhat’s going for it? Part 12 in Let’s Move To…’s occasional series, Cut-Price Commuter Belt. Locations the likes of you and I shouldn’t be able to afford, but can, if you’re canny. Weybridge and Walton are so posh even the domestic staff have staff. But lying at their pampered heart is a little secret: Span estates, which are drop-dead gorgeous modernist homes in dreamy gardens and lovely spots, going for a song. Span was set up in the late 50s by an architect, a landscape designer and a property developer to deliver affordable, cool, Scandinavian-style modernist houses and flats – the Habitat of house building. The cleverest trick was to build them in desirable locations: Cambridge, Richmond, Blackheath – and W&W. Sloaney it might be, but with great schools, terrific transport, the Thames flowing by and leafiness galore, you’d be mad not to move here. The case against… You will be the poor relation. Span was built on principles of cooperation with your neighbours – residents’ committees are big and all-seeing, though they keep everything looking spick and … Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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