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The Guardian
18-07-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
Homes for sale for summer entertaining in England
Barton Grange is seven-bedroom property dressed for summer parties. The main farmhouse – behind a dusty pink facade that dates to 1558 – is attached to a collection of buildings with a corridor connecting to one of three barns. This one houses a vast entertaining area with plenty of room to party under the exposed ceiling beams. And there's an outdoor dining room, with room for an eight-person table, next to the barbecue. For post-shindig recovery, there is a yoga room. Wildflower gardens fan out behind the property. £1.850m. Inigo, 020 3687 3071 Photograph: Inigo Moored at Shepperton Marina, on the edge of Greater London, is this 39-metre Belgian barge that has been converted into a home. As big as a typical Victorian terrace house in London, it covers 186 sq metres (2,000 sq ft) with four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a reception room and a utility room underneath. The kitchen is on the upper deck. The layout was conceived with partying in mind. The long top deck is used to host guests, and boasts a hot tub. The marina is just off Walton Bridge Road, and within easy distance of Walton-on-Thames. £425,000. Dexters, 020 8398 8550 Photograph: darran.m/Dexters In a triangle of residential roads, with the green spaces of Clapham Common and Brockwell Park close by, is a mid-century apartment block with a party penthouse on the seventh floor. The three-bedroom, three-bathroom property is dominated by the open-plan reception room with sleek kitchen units, shiny white floor tiles and dual-aspect floor-to-ceiling glass panels. Doors open on to a wraparound roof terrace with space for seating and hosting, with shade from the cantilevered roof. There's a hot tub and a sauna, and views of the City skyline. £1.4m. Foxtons, 020 7704 5757 Photograph: Foxtons Wilford Lane runs between two bends in the River Trent and leads to the town centre. The bustling high street and amenities are on hand and yet it is just off the main thoroughfares that get busy on match days (either Nottingham Forest's home games at the nearby City Ground or cricket at Trent Bridge). On the fourth floor of an apartment block is a two-bedroom home with an open-plan living space and doors opening on to the west-facing balcony. This, and the communal gardens overlooking the river, are ideal spots for gatherings. £400,000. HomeMove, 0115 8321 321 Photograph: Home Move Within walking distance of the characterful Margate Old Town and its sandy beach is a semi-detached Victorian house that has been modernised inside. The kitchen is at the back, light-filled from dual-aspect windows and a roof lantern, and has space at the back for dining. The garden has a patio for alfresco meals and a lawn, bordered by a timber slatted fence on one side and a brick wall on the other, supporting fig and olive trees. Tucked away down the end is decking and seating, and a studio – currently used as a quiet place of retreat. £750,000. The Modern House, 020 3795 5920 Photograph: The Modern House
BBC News
30-06-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Hundreds join fight to save Walton-on-Thames Bowling Club
More than 500 people have signed a petition opposing plans to replace an historic bowling club in Surrey with a new health Borough Council could sell part of the Walton-on-Thames Bowling Club to make way for the new facility, which would replace the town's community local authority called it a "once in a generation" chance to bring state-of-the-art health facilities to the town, but campaigners said the plans would erase years of history and the tight-knit community around the club. Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been asked to respond. A petition was launched two weeks ago in the hope of persuading North West Surrey NHS bosses to drop their plans to transform the site, the Local Democracy Reporting Service say the hub should be built as an extension to the existing Gregor Macgregor, also a campaigner, said: "Almost 80% of the people asked to sign have signed."People really want to keep our hospital and not lose our bowls club."Members of the council's cabinet have robustly defended potentially selling the site, which has been occupied by the bolwing club since said not selling to the NHS would be a "dereliction of duty".The hub would include seven additional services, including mental health support, complex-wound care and maternity the Elm Grove sale does not go ahead, the NHS investment will not be used elsewhere in the borough.
BBC News
27-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Spelthorne MP wants floating solar panels on UK reservoirs
An MP is calling for more solar panels to be located on the UK's Jopp, the Conservative MP for Spelthorne in Surrey, claimed in the Commons that putting the panels on just 15% of the country's reservoirs would double the UK's solar energy well as avoiding the use of arable land, he said, they would be more efficient due to the cooling effect of while agreeing the idea has "potential", the government said it had not backed any floating solar bids because the cost of the floating structures and underwater cabling make it 10 to 15% per cent more expensive than ground mounted panels. The technology is already being used in India, China, the USA and Turkey, and is being used in Surrey at the Queen Elizabeth the Second Reservoir in Jopp said expanding the idea would add 16gw to electricity generation, creating 80,000 jobs in the construction phase and 8,000 long term maintenance jobs. Mr Jopp told BBC Radio Surrey: "If we were to onshore the floating element and the anchorage element that would reduce the cost and produce some great jobs."Because the government haven't been seen to be behind it, like they have for example offshore wind, then investors are reticent, because they want to know there's going to be a ready market for the electricity."All of that visual vandalism of putting solar panels all over this beautiful country of ours on greenfield sites and agricultural land, it removes that problem, too."In the Commons, energy minister Miatta Fahnbulleh told Mr Jopp: "Although we are very keen to encourage this technology and encourage the sector to grow, there is more that needs to be done in order to make them cost effective."
BBC News
23-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Surrey charity says it is four months away from using reserve funds
The co-founder of a counselling charity says the group has four months before it will have to dip into its reserve Collins, co-founder of The Counselling Partnership in Surrey, says the charity has not received as much grant funding recently as she had expected, but she does not think the organisation will have to hopes getting more people to use the charity's paid counselling services will help boost their finances to support those who cannot pay."It's incredibly important," said Ms Collins. "Mental health is right up there as one of the main concerns within the community." Clients currently pay what they can for the charity's counselling, but £35 is the recommended amount."At the moment, the people who are referring themselves to us or being referred are very financially stretched and the majority are paying less than £20 and quite a lot are paying £5 and £10," Ms Collins the the financial concerns, Ms Collins said the charity would not turn anyone Counselling Partnership, which estimates it has helped thousands of people over more than 20 years, currently offers face-to-face sessions in Walton-on-Thames and Woking as well as online sessions.
BBC News
30-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Concern over future of 103-year-old Walton-on-Thames bowling green
A 103-year-old Surrey bowling green could be destroyed and members forced to move to another Borough Council (EBC) is looking to continue negotiations into potentially selling the historic Walton-on-Thames bowling green to make way for a new, state-of-the-art NHS have described the offer as a "once in a generation opportunity" to provide a central health hub for people in the officers told EBC's Overview and Scrutiny Committee on Tuesday that they were continuing conversations with the club to find them a new home. EBC Cabinet members had agreed to give the NHS the right to buy part of Elm Grove recreational ground on 30 local NHS team hopes to move from its current home at Walton Community Hospital in Rodney Road to this new and Hinchley Wood Residents' Association member Janet Turner said her main concern was that the council would sign Elm Grove away without any concrete agreement from the the council had promised to rebuild the bowling green elsewhere in the borough but realised creating a new centre would be extortionate, according to the Local Democracy Reporting John Cope said that according to officers' notes, there were no viable relocation options for the club as none of the land owned by the council was suitable for a bowling Atkinson, treasurer of the Walton-on-Thames Bowling Club, previously said it would be "an awful shame" to "wipe away" the club's 103-year decisions have been made but officers and members agreed to continue to look at negotiating a deal for the proposed health centre. A spokesperson for North West Surrey Alliance, a partnership of local councils and NHS organisations, previously said the site provided an opportunity for the area to "have a first class health infrastructure and receive integrated health services".
