Riverside land for sale

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Just above Shillingford bridge, with a big sign up with Beeson's written on it. http://www.beesons.uk.com/property.cfm its the second one down. Not sure why but I suspect this couldn't actually be of much use to anyone thinking of mooring boats on it due to Environment Agency regulations and 'inappropriate development' issues. It looks suspiciously like a useless bit of flood plain to me. If it were possible to develop it then is there a new marina coming?

I noticed the Strutt Parker advert for the bit of land for sale opposite Sheridan Marine doesn't even mention 'mooring rights'. Just 'sporting rights'. However I have moored there overnight a few times, its a pleasant spot.
 
The land opposite Sheridans (almost 30 acres) is virtually useless scrub flood plain, even the grazing is poor. At last half of it is a bog except in the driest of summers. It has fishing and rough shooting rights but obviously no permanent mooring rights. (Overnighters moor there I know, but this is without the consent of the land owner.) For this they are asking offers in excess of £200,000.

As regards the land at Shillingford. I have no knowledge of this other than to say South Oxfordshire object most strenuously against anything to do with the river. So any thought of a Marina is pie in the sky.
 
Byron

Didn't you own the land opposite Sheridans & when sold put a covenant on the land re free mooring? (I can't remember where I heard that).

Any danger the South Stoke moorings, upstream of you, will be lost if sold?

IanC
 
No mate. The land belongs to a man in our village called Sheridan Thynne. He is (was?) something to do with the Williams Race Team. ChrisD can expand on that.

Sherry has never given anyone permission to moor there. People do, he just doesn't bother checking and chasing people off. Years ago a man called Jasper Clover used to chase people off but he was acting with no authority from anyone. Similarly the land downstream of me carries "no mooring" etc. signs, these are not erected with the authority of the farmer. The village angling club put them and have no authority to enforce them.
 
The infamous Mr Thin, he allegedly walked into one of the secretaries offices slapped his old man out on the table and said "how does that measure up then", without batting an eyelid she carried on working with a strained comment "average".
 
There seems to be a bit on the market at the moment, the Island below Cleeve lock is for sale with Davis&tate for £250K, and two of the moorings above the lock in Goring for £175K anf £189K. These bits of land always seem a lot for basicaly a mooring and somewhere to just sit by the river, none of them have vehicular access or power or the possibility to build anything.
 
Is Pete selling up everything? I was surprised when I heard he had sold Eel Pie Studios and then his dutch barge, Grand Cru, is up for sale next door to me and now he's selling this island. I wonder what he's saving up for.
 
One of the moorings just up from Cleeve lock does have mains electric and water but I believe there may have been some trouble regarding the finer details of the moorings rights.
Nice moorings, they must get a bit soggy in the floods there's very little 'freeboard' there.
 
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One of the moorings just up from Cleeve lock does have mains electric and water but I believe there may have been some trouble regarding the finer details of the moorings rights.
Nice moorings, they must get a bit soggy in the floods there's very little 'freeboard' there.

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If I were buying any of those plots I would look very carefully into the mooring rights. That could be a minefield not a mooring because I believe it can be argued that some plots don't have any right. This is because that whole length belonged to a house you can't see. This was sold off at some stage and then over the years been divided and sub-divided and in one case, (the one that's up for sale) combined again when it was owned by 'Triplescrew' who was a regular in the original motor boats forum years ago. Add that to the inaccessibility of the plots coupled to the lack of parking and other factors such as which plots retained mooring rights and which didn't. It's all a nightmare.
Having said all that. The person who used to create hell about boats being there has moved away and maybe the Council are just leaving the proverbial sleeping dog alone.
Many of the plots are with Water & Electric and flooding is not a major problem there as the water falls to the other side of the river except in extremity.
 
Re: Riverside land for sale -Pete\'s plot

Addendum..

I think Pete Townsend's island has mooring rights for a couple of boats. Access is via the Lock and across the weir bridge. Parking would be at the lock I suppose. Maybe one of our wealthier Forumites (Brayman springs to mind) will buy it and we can have rallies and BBQ's there.
 
Flood plain land is not Useless, it floods and so has a use.
The big problem is that too much flood plain has been built on or paved over and now we have flooding. just ask the householder around Tewksbury that live on the flood plain land.
By all means buy the land, put a landing stage in or a few mooring posts. Power and water on a raised bit of land with the earth taken from within the site so the flood height is compensated.

I've not long ago completed a contract in KL Malaysia where a 12m dia tunnel 8klm long had to be constructed to take flood water from the city, a similar project is planned to be built under the Thames in E. London. So lets keep what natural flood plains we have.

Now I'm off to Vietnam to help them build all pover theirs.
 
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Flood plain land is not Useless, it floods and so has a use.
The big problem is that too much flood plain has been built on or paved over and now we have flooding. just ask the householder around Tewksbury that live on the flood plain land.
By all means buy the land, put a landing stage in or a few mooring posts. Power and water on a raised bit of land with the earth taken from within the site so the flood height is compensated.

I've not long ago completed a contract in KL Malaysia where a 12m dia tunnel 8klm long had to be constructed to take flood water from the city, a similar project is planned to be built under the Thames in E. London. So lets keep what natural flood plains we have.

Now I'm off to Vietnam to help them build all pover theirs.

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My comment regards flood plain are on a personal basis meaning the land is useless to the owner, they can gain no real income from it nor can any development take place. Try to put in landing stages and S.Oxon will fall upon you from a great height. One even needs planning permission to restore bank side. The land there incidentally is also towpath.
 
thats what I meant by 'useless' too. Obviously all land has some use but the land on the inside of the bend immediately above shillingford bridge might look to some like an ideal place to construct moorings which would make it a 'useful' bit of land in the sense of achieving a financial return by renting out said moorings to boat owners.
 
That meadow would make some nice moorings and even the lagoon could be dredged to get some boats in. However as byron says if you even drive so much as a post in to make a redumentary landing stage it will be objected to.
 
Also S.Oxon so not a chance in hell of having permanent moorings there. You have to understand just how anti the river S.Oxon is. Why do you think the longest stretch of the Thames between locks has the lowest ratio of moorings? Why do you think Ashmount doesn't have moorings, Why Shillingford Bridge Hotel can only use a half of their frontage. I can name other areas but would have difficulty in explaining exactly where they are.
 
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