Permission has been given to reconstruct a hut on a sandy beach plot with a top notch view… and a price to match.
A week after going on sale requesting offers of more than £100,000, a 32 sq m (345 sq ft) patch of beach in Abersoch, Gwynedd, has been granted planning permission for a new hut.
A previous hut on the privately-owned plot was destroyed in a storm last year, but any beach lovers should note that, as well as there being no hut, there is no electricity, heating or drainage.
Rhys Elvins, estate agent director, said the plot had received “a couple of inquiries within the past week”.
He said at the “height of the market”, towards the end of 2022, one hut sold for £177,000.
Martin Roberts, TV property expert best known for being on Homes Under the Hammer, told BBC Radio Wales Drive that on the face of it it was “completely bonkers”.
“It’s a tiny bit of beach and you don’t own the beach. It’s on a line of beach huts, so you have planning permission to build a beach hut.
“Nothing elaborate, it can’t multi-storey or a helicopter landing pad. It’s basically an elaborate garden shed,” he said.
Roberts added that the owner would not have the rights to leave in the hut.
“You’ve got your rights to spend your days in it, making your cups of tea and scones and welsh cakes. But you can’t stay overnight as far as I’m aware.
“That’s the regulations for most of these beach huts.
A council officer from Cyngor Gwynedd said the Abersoch sand dunes were a wildlife site and home to the rare vernal mining bee, so it was important that the height of new beach hut does not increase as this would shade the sand dune and bees need sunny dunes to nest in.
An officer also added that the construction of the hut should also not de-stabilise the dune.
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