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(This should be nearer £249,000 Than £350,000)

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^^ Perry Water Tower ^^

The Drive, Perry, Huntingdon PE28 0SS

Photo Courtesy of the very decent Simon Judd and the kindly host, Geograph.

We are scratching the old wooden top heads here! The price sold last year was just £290,000 and the extra £60,000 does NOT appear to include a successful planning application.

So we would CAUTION our readers…

PLEASE DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE.

We would ONLY expect this water tower to be worth ££0,000 more (just 11 months later) if the intermediate owner HAD successfully ADDED the crucial and valuable Planning Permission.

We have looked and can find NO record of a granted or approved Planning Permission on Perry Water Tower.

Just some nice photos of what Perry Water Tower MIGHT look like (click here).

But someone, likely the new owner will have to do a lot of hard and expensive work SECURING THE VITAL PLANNING PERMISSION to convert this FROM a water tower TO a home. That is the red-tape that MUST be done (plus extensive and expensive BUILDING WARRANTS), before even just one house-conversion brick may be added or subtracted.

The fact that this water tower has been hanging about since 4th December 2023 on Rightmove UNSOLD after having been sold already for around £290,000 on 10th May 2023 does not auger well.

=> If any of our readers can help us, and dig a bit deeper on the Local Authority planning website to see if there has even been a “pre-app” planning permission enquiry and share your findings in the comments  section on our social media feeds (click here and scroll downward until you find the relevant post), that would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

Consequently, and with all we have seen so far at Perry Water Tower and much of which is included here and on our social media review page, we don’t like advising this sort of thing, but it is based on 37 years tapping away at this keyboard and the experience from many very helpful Unique Property Bulletin readers,..

We do NOT value this water tower at the current guide of £350,000. We value Perry Tower in the current condition and with NO Planning Permission at approximately…

£249,000.

Even then, that is a high price for high tower when compared with other, similar sales. The last water tower of similar construction/style that one our readers went to bid on was guided at around £40,000 and sold for £101,000. Even at £101,000 the eyebrows were raised that £101,000 was a very good result for the seller. So here the current £350,000 wishful price comes from is difficult to fathom.

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Update: 21st February 2024

Fire Station For Sale

Only Our Estimate…

£350,000 to £850,000

Please let Eddisons Know if, you, like us, loathe it when an estate agent puts POA on a set of details. This is very annoying. Though here at Unique Property Bulletin one of the few buildings we DDO NOT like featuring are fire stations. Why? We REALLY DO NOT LIKE FEATURING FIRE STATIONS. One of the few unusual buildings that we believe should STAY OPEN AS A FIRE STATION are fire stations (when a new, bigger facility is being built, then that doesn’t hurt so much).

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^^ Police Stations & Police Boxes^^ 

Seem To Attract Some Iconic People & Extra Terrestrials

^^ Russ McLean ^^

Founded Unique Property Bulletin

2 Years After This Photo Was Taken

As you may appreciate from the old photo above, our editor, Russ McLean has a soft spot for these old police stations and has mentioned Unique Property Bulletin buying this project. At £90,000 it would be a very good price and is only one hour from our current HQ. But then again, the purpose of Unique Property Bulletin is to help YOU find your favourite style of unusual home…

^^ Tillicoultry Police Station ^^

A very modest structure

But in an outstandingly beautiful part of the country

& a LOT of property for the money!

But our main thesis today is that there is a LOT of property for little money to the extent that many buyers will have a much sought after desire to be free-of-mortgage realised if they purchase this hidden gem…

^^ The New Format of Unique Property Bulletins ^^

Every Couple of Days.

Thanks to an alert reader, we may now understand why Tillicoultry Police Station in Moss Road has been stripped back to brick…

 

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UPDATE (Since we were alerted about the local flooding issue)…

It is also worth mentioning that given the flood local folk endured, maybe go a bit easy with the haggling for this building. It would have been traumatic for the owners and neighbours. It is an important matter, to be aware of how distressing a local flood can be (we know, we’ve had it happen).  Also worth chatting with the neighbours about maybe altering the police station (if you buy it) by extending out the back so that there is a bigger FIRST FLOOR, with a significant amount at the back built over open air (on pillars) for car parking on the ground floor area. If you have your living accommodation and your home-office/studio on the upstairs first-floor, you will be much safer and your home will survive better if there is another flood.

Leave the pre-existing ground floor minimally furnished. You may well set a good template on how to survive the worries and hazards that come with ever increasing numbers of floods.

The CONTACT details for the estate agent SELLING Tillicoultry Police Stations + more photos are on the regular social media updates and especially to take yuur interest in this curious wee police station in an awesomely beautiful area of the country further, just click onto the photos in the next (social media) boxes….

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