When estate agents Geering and Colyer listed an advertisement for ‘an exceptional fisherman’s cottage’ in Kent, you really would have thought that the estate agency would also have mentioned at least one of the two nuclear power stations right next door.
Wouldn’t you?
But no, although the good people at Geering and Colyer have chosen to wax lyrical about the proximity of the cottage to a nature reserve, they completely fail to mention the proximity of Dungeness nuclear reactor ‘A’, and Dungeness nuclear reactor ‘B’.
Perhaps it is not a coincidence that Geering and Colyer have also chosen to not mention the forthcoming Dungeness nuclear reactor ‘C’?
But the thing is – and here’s my very simple question – if Geering and Colyer have chosen not to inform prospective purchasers about these two (and the soon to be arriving) nuclear power stations, what other, less noticeable, things might these estate agents be in the habit of forgetting to mention?
And here’s an alternate way of looking at this story from NewsARSE.
They showed the ad on the beeb last night and they were asking either 247k or 274k for the house, I forget which. Either way, I wouldn’t pay anyone in the region of quarter of a million for a house within spitting distance of the electric fence of Dungeness. On the plus side, if there ever is an attack on the power station, the occupiers won’t need to worry about dying slowly and painfully from radiation poisoning, as they are very clearly in the ‘instant vapourisation’ zone. I’m surprised the estate agent didn’t pick up on this exciting marketing point.
I went round Dungeness in the early 1980s as part of a college trip. It was early summer and I am sure that Dugeness A as an early Magnox was supposed to be ‘coming to the end of its life’.
As we were going round, we noticed a definite vibration in the building. Our guide said “don’t worry – it always shakes a bit in hot weather”.
It is a lovely part of Kent, in a Dereck Jarman sort of way, but no way would I be buying the fisherman’s cottage.