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Charles & Camilla in Salcombe

For any Royals fans (no not the Reading football ones) there is a treat in store for you! Prince Charles and Camilla are set to be in Salcombe next week to visit the RNLI and Salcombe fish quay, finishing off with a visit to Atfields Boatyard.

Will there be as many Police as there were for the Red Arrows? Apparently there are expected to be thousands of people there to see the couple.

Great for Salcombe royal fan or not...

Is Mr Tumble in Salcombe?

For those of you with young children you will know exactly who Mr Tumble is! For those of you who don't he is a children's entertainer who seems to have a mesmerising hold over kids whilst appearing to us an absolute fool...kids just love him. He also does some great work for special needs children.

I could be wrong but I am sure that the house that Mr Tumble films in is located in East Portlemouth looking over the entrance to South Pool Creek??

Salcombe House Prices Stay Strong

I came across this article on the web and thought you may be interested. I have noticed a few more properties have been sold recently and prices seem to be staying strong...

With the publication of the Sunday Times Rich List in mid-May, we turn our attention to the most expensive towns in England. So in reverse order:

10. Sevenoaks in Kent, where properties cost just under £470,000 on average and have gone up by 53 per cent over the past five years. Just half an hour from Charing Cross, surrounded by lovely villages and the Kent Weald, the only big downside is the ultra right wing politics of so many residents.

9. Alderley Edge, Cheshire, where average properties cost £481,100 and prices have jumped by 63 per cent in five years. Populated by footballers, Coronation Street actors and Manchester and Liverpool-commuting executives, prices are more than double the level of the surrounding area.

8. Harpenden, Hertfordshire, in between Luton and St Albans, with golf courses aplenty and Kings Cross within 26 minutes. Lots of green space and blue politics.

7. Brockenhurst, Hampshire, close to the sea at Buckler?s Hard, on the doorstep of the New Forest and with a fast train into Waterloo, prices are a fraction under £500,000 on average.

6. Salcombe, Devon, where prices have soared by almost 80 per cent in five years and now average over £500,000. Up to three quarters of properties are second homes, so the place is far busier in summer
than winter.

5. Lyndhurst, Hampshire, is bang in the middle of the New Forest and just 75 minutes from London by train. Property prices have more than doubled in the past five years and now exceed £515,000 on average.

4. Ascot, Berkshire, has a clutch of events during the social season, quite apart from its racing days. Inhabitants pay £525,000 on average for their homes and send their children to the many nearby private schools.

3, 2 & 1 are all in Buckinghamshire, starting with Amersham, followed by Gerrards Cross and finally Beaconsfield at number one, with average prices at £684,000, which is to say 14 times the national income. All three towns are stacked with good schools, parks and organic butchers.

Who left the oven on?

A very expensive fire indeed!

Salcombe's High St Under Threat

I have to admit to missing this snippet of information until Google updated me...

It appears that the shops adorning Fore St are under threat from a potential 100%+ increase in business rates! Average rates are currently £9k with new rates looking likely to be over £20k. Apparently it's based on the property rental values in Salcombe, which as we all know are totally unrepresentative of the area as a whole.

It seems that some traders have already had offers form, wait for it...high st chains(!!!) but have so far held out. Can you imagine Salcombe with a WH Smiths, Starbucks or Costa Coffee, the thought of it makes me shiver!

We can't let this happen to our fantastic town...Kingsbridge appears to be at the beginning of the slippery slope to "high st hell" with the opening of a Costa in a once great pub. Imagine how much Costa would like to get their hands on the KA or Tesco on a couple of shops next door to each other...

Lets start a defence now and vow never to enter the doors of Costa, if their profits aren't great in Kingsbridge hopefully they will forget about Salcombe.

Lets hope that just for once the Town Hall get off their ample backsides and fight for the very soul of their (our) town!

Deep breaths...and relax...

Can't Help but Smile...

Finally justice is served...a ongoing poor track record is at last punished properly!

Businessman, on what planet was he a businessman???

Read this...

No Advert for Salcombe!

I came across this article in the Daily Mail whilst sat in a Cafe Nero in London (away with work) and thought; "aaah excellent some good coverage for Salcombe". How wrong I was. Now I know I should not expect much more from the Daily Mail and here I'd like to make it clear that it was left in the cafe and I DID NOT BUY IT!

The entire article does Salcombe a complete disservice and puts it in a light that none of us wants to see it put in. The whole tone of the article is pompous and arrogant. The South Sands hotel comes out of it ok but the rest of it makes Salcombe sound like a an idiots enclave.

I love the fact that Salcombe attracts all types but the image of upper class wannabees clad in v-neck sweaters and polo shirts is ridiculous and untrue, the journalist is getting us confused with Thurlstone! And if I was "Moonraker Mike" (do people really call him that?) I would be suing the journalist for me making me look like an utter tit.

If anyone is reading this blog after reading the Daily Mail article I urge you to ignore it and come and see what Salcombe is really like; I can guarantee you that it isn't remotely like this article makes out.