Looking for a waterside property?

[David Mack]

A building plot with planning permission on Eel Pie Island on the Thames is up for auction on 18 December.

It will cost you a cool half million, and then you have to build the house.

https://auctioneertemplates.eigroup.co.uk/LotDetails.aspx?LotID=897687&a=5&c=brn&utm_source=Main+Barnard+Marcus+Auctions

 

 

[MtB]

Guide price is £500k. 

In my experience the guide price is usually set unrealistically low to suck in badly informed punters. The bidding usually starts at the guide price.

My estimate for that plot is a shade over £1m. We'll see! 

[dor]

Not familiar with current London prices but my bid would be 1.5 -1.8 mil.

[Sea Dog]

Does it stay above water when the Thames is in full flood?

[WotEver]

32 minutes ago, Sea Dog said:

Does it stay above water when the Thames is in full flood?

Not always, no. 

[Sea Dog]

2 hours ago, WotEver said:

Not always, no. 

You can imagine how that might put one or two feint-hearted buyers off! 

[Detling]

build on stilts car parked under.

[jonesthenuke]

37 minutes ago, Detling said:

build on stilts car parked under.

Is there access to the island for a car?

I friend of mine lived there in the 1980s. IIRC there was no official road access however the coal deliveries came over the footbridge in the back of a mini.

[WotEver]

2 hours ago, Detling said:

build on stilts car parked under.

Only if the car’s an Aquada

[MHS]

You could replicate the “Grand Designs” gloating house. 

https://www.dezeen.com/2016/01/20/baca-architects-bouyant-amphibious-house-river-thames-buckinghamshire-floating-architecture/

[mrsmelly]

18 hours ago, MHS said:

You could replicate the “Grand Designs” gloating house. 

https://www.dezeen.com/2016/01/20/baca-architects-bouyant-amphibious-house-river-thames-buckinghamshire-floating-architecture/

Its quite nice though too modern for my tastes, still I don't know what its got to Gloat about its no better than its neighbours

[cuthound]

4 hours ago, mrsmelly said:

Its quite nice though too modern for my tastes, still I don't know what its got to Gloat about its no better than its neighbours

Perhaps they are allowed to keep gloats on the land,  providing they take measures to prevent the gloats from eating the neighbours washing? 

[artleknock]

9 hours ago, mrsmelly said:

Its quite nice though too modern for my tastes, still I don't know what its got to Gloat about its no better than its neighbours

Perhaps they can gloat about the house floating, they don't get their feet wet.

[ditchcrawler]

9 hours ago, mrsmelly said:

Its quite nice though too modern for my tastes, still I don't know what its got to Gloat about its no better than its neighbours

It will be next time the river floods

[WJM]

On 02/12/2017 at 13:56, jonesthenuke said:

Is there access to the island for a car?

I friend of mine lived there in the 1980s. IIRC there was no official road access however the coal deliveries came over the footbridge in the back of a mini.

You are thinking of Thorneycroft Island / Platts Eyot up at Molesey. That is the one with the Minis (and Bedford Rascal vans). The footbridge over to Ell Pie Island is too small for a car.

On 02/12/2017 at 10:36, WotEver said:

Not always, no. 

Elle Pie Island is very high and does not flood.

[WotEver]

12 hours ago, WJM said:

Elle Pie Island is very high and does not flood.

Elle Pie might not but Eel Pie has been known to. 

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.standard.co.uk/news/london/fresh-flood-warnings-are-issued-along-river-thames-after-eel-pie-island-rescue-mission-9113169.html%3famp

[WotEver]

And...

our assessment showed that in the future, due to climate change and sea level rise, flood depths of up to 450mm could be experienced...

from here:

http://www.rabconsultants.co.uk/news/69/112/Flood-Risk-Assessment-at-Eel-Pie-Island-Twickenham-London

[WJM]

11 hours ago, WotEver said:

Elle Pie might not but Eel Pie has been known to. 

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.standard.co.uk/news/london/fresh-flood-warnings-are-issued-along-river-thames-after-eel-pie-island-rescue-mission-9113169.html%3famp

The joys of Autocorrect!  Those pictures and that article refer to the flooding of the mainland bank opposite the island, not the island itself - although the article fails to point that out. I manage a property close by that sits lower than the island and we do get occasional flooding but we haven't seen any really high levels in maybe fifteen years. I think that is because, although the Thames barrier has been in use a lot longer, prediction and implementation is a lot more sophisticated now. In the past we could have 1m of water inside our building but for over a decade we haven't seen more than 10cm. 

[WJM]

11 hours ago, WotEver said:

And...

 

 

from here:

http://www.rabconsultants.co.uk/news/69/112/Flood-Risk-Assessment-at-Eel-Pie-Island-Twickenham-London

A report prepared by a private consultancy in support of a private developer's application to change genuine riverside usage to luxury residential. Greed Britain!

 

[WotEver]

1 hour ago, WJM said:

The joys of Autocorrect!

Indeed

[DHutch]

Often these things are cheap at half the price, however because its London its cheap at 1/10th the price!

 

Daniel