last updated 4th October 05
by 4ecotips.com

New underwater haven for fish by 2025?

A very modest bungalow on the UK's billionaire's island, which is Sandbanks, near Poole in Dorset, has just sold for nearly £3m. Also its adjacent garage has fetched £200,000.

The purchaser has obviously got more money than sense or the estate agent didn't know/ omitted to tell him/her that within a couple of decades sea water may well be lapping around the bungalow's footings! Because this grossly overpriced "box" is standing on one of the lowest points above sea level on the British Isles which, as the island's name suggests, is no more than a stabilized sand peninsular in Poole harbour, with a causeway access.

With the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps gradually melting simultaneously, sea levels around the world have already risen to the extent where a number of islands in the Pacific Ocean have already been evacuated and hundreds of thousands of inhabitants moved elsewhere.

Sandbanks could well become another victim of the sea's incessant surge and, as it's said to be "one of the most expensive places in the world to buy property", it would be a major financial loss to all of its wealthy property owners. Or would the local council see fit to protect its mega-bucks ratepayers with a special flood protection barrier?