House for Sale

Published: 29 Sep 2009

AN estate agents has come under fire for hiding two huge nuclear power stations in an advert for a "traditional fisherman's cottage".

Prospective buyers have flocked to view the three-bedroom property on the market for £247,000, described as an "exceptional" detached property set in half an acre of private land.

The cottage - which also boasts a conservatory, loft room, garage and off-road parking - is located in the picturesque Dungeness National Nature Reserve in Romney Marsh, Kent.

But agents have failed to mention one significant factor about its setting - the property is directly overshadowed by TWO enormous nuclear power stations.

Horrified

And cleverly angled photographs of the 1930s house - which is being sold by Geering & Colyer Estate Agents - cut out the looming eyesores entirely.

Snaps on the estate agent's website show the side of the cottage, inside the bedrooms and living room - but completely ignore the menacing Dungeness A or Dungeness B power stations.

Viewer Alex Robertson, 32, said he was horrified when he arrived at the property last week.

He said: "It was unbelievable. I had seen the property online and thought it looked just right for me and my family - but when I got there I just saw this tiny fisherman's cottage in the shadow of these huge nuclear power stations."

The quantity surveyor and dad-of-two added: "The photos make out it is an isolated cottage with nothing surrounding it at all - but that could not be further from the truth.

"These power stations are literally at your front door - there is no escaping them, they are gargantuan.

"I didn't need to look inside the house, one look at the power station and I was on my heels and off."

A spokesman for Geering & Colyer based in nearby New Romney said: "The thing is that anywhere on Dungeness is close to the power station.

"Dungeness is a place you either love or you hate and the power station is just part of that.

"Anyone who wants to know the location of any property in relation to it can just go on to Google-earth and see for themselves."