Talk:Watermead, Buckinghamshire

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The large lakeside houses in Watermead were sold for £500,000 each in 1990, this is not an equivalent value in today's money. The houses were considered to be worth £250,000 each, plus an extra £250,000 for the priveledge of having lakeside access. Francs2000 21:50, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)


 * Washington Houses were never being sold for £500,000 in 1990. We looked at buying one when the show house had been completed and they were nearer £300,000 all in. After 1990 the remaining houses Baltimore's etc were left to sell at unbelievably low prices as Royco had problems. Only recently (2003) has a Washington style house been advertised for £500,000.

£300,000 was the price of the non-lakeside dwellings. One of my relatives bought one in Watermead on the lakeside and it cost £500,000 new. Francs2000 22:17, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)


 * I have the price list infront of me! - In Jan 1991 a Baltimore house in the cresent (the next next size down from the *Washington - *the style that your relatives purchased) was £147,000. The Washingtons were selling for £300,000 next to the lake or not. (because of the housing crash and Royco's troubles).


 * Regards

Then alter the original figure in the article. I'm sure I remember it as being more but there you go.

Incidentally, the sentence "The village has only been called Toytown by people who don't seem to appreciate the superbly styled Edwardian houses, which give a theme and break up the regularity that dominates most modern housing estates." is a point of view and is not true of everyone. The aim of the wikipedia project is to style articles from a neutral point of view, and that sentence goes against that. I have reworded my sentence on toytown to make it more npov, please don't re-insert the above sentence (or the one I noticed in the history of this article about people who can't afford to live in watermead). If you want to know more about NPOV see Neutral point of view Francs2000 01:25, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Ok fine. I edited the above mentioned paragraph before I published the final revision, sorry if any offence was caused. The reason I also edited the Toytown paragraph was because I considered it to be a POV, so I simply added my own.

You seem very opinionated, this was the reason I first edited the Watermead page, just to weigh the opinion up if you like. I think the page reads fine now. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards.

Lake in private ownership
I just came across this story in the Bucks Herald regarding changing the use of the The Riviera restaurant to a care home. In it it states that "Mr Pardis, who has owned the site and the lake for the past 11 years".

Is that really the case? The lake is in private ownership?

If it is the case, this information could be of interest on the page. Also, how it came to be in private ownership? (seems very strange to me).

Update: Despite the article stating there is one lake, there does appear to be two in the legal sense. One the north lake is owned by Mr Pardis and the south by Watermead consortium or The Parish council? (same thing?) See the following news article and the Parish Council which this article appears to have copied (almost word for word).

Stuartea (talk) 17:51, 10 March 2012 (UTC)