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BRICKS AND MORTAR: A TALE OF TWO SURREYS
The borough of Elmbridge in Surrey is classic Home Counties stockbroker belt: an exclusive little collection of dormitory towns, gated estates and golf courses.
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LONDON PROPERTY – TELEGRAPH
BUY-TO-LET is 10 years old and showing its age as yields and capital appreciation, even in the heady London market of 2006, are well down on the heyday levels of the late 1990’s.
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HEART BRINGS A NEW PULSE
While many people want to live in Walton-on-Thames because of its good schools and fast trains into Waterloo, few want to shop there. The town’s High Street has been described as dreary and uninspiring, at odds with the affluent Surrey commuter belt in which it lies.
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BRICKS AND MORTAR
WALTON-ON-THAMES seems to be built on contradiction. This is prime Surrey commuter land, where trains whisk you up to Waterloo on 30 minutes and professionals live in large detached mock-Tudor homes with BMW’s parked in gravel driveways.
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HEARTS CONTENT
The closing down sale of Walton-on-Thames department store, Beales, last month was an anticlimax. A stampede of shoppers had been envisaged, some chasing the £2m worth of bargains advertised in the windows, others coming to witness the demise of Elmbridge borough’s only department store.
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INTO THE FUTURE
Remember what it was like before the advent of the mobile telephone? It has become inconceivable for most of us to leave home in the morning without one. And, soon, many of us could be using a mobile to set our burglar alarms, dim our lights and even switch on our ovens.
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RETAIL THERAPY ON THE DOORSTEP
A new type of housing development, with 279 flats as part of a shopping mall, aims to transform one of Surrey’s least glamorous town centres. The flats are in a £130m development called The Heart in Walton-on-Thames, whose town centre has been dominated by brutal 1960s red-brick architecture.
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WALTON’S
WALTON-ON-THAMES has long been the poor relation of its much grander neighbours, Weybridge, Esher and Cobham. But this quiet suburb on the western edge of London, a 30-minute commute to Waterloo, is about to undergo a transformation.
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