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Daily Mail
23-07-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
Live next to Lake Windermere! Rare plot of land in popular beauty spot goes on sale for the first time in 300 years for £1.2million
A rare plot of land next to Lake Windermere has come on the market for the first time in 300 years with a £1.2m guide price. The 32 acres of mixed ancient and semi-natural woodland fronts on to the the lake and estate agents have described the sale as a 'once in a lifetime opportunity'. The land, which provides direct access to the eastern shore of the lake, is being offered for sale by informal tender, final offers to be sent to estate agents by Thursday, September 18. The land is described as perfect for nature conservation, quiet enjoyment, and 'long-term stewardship'. Mark Barrow, director of H&H Land & Estates, said: 'It is impossible to overstate just how remarkable and a one off this opportunity is. 'Windermere for me is without a doubt the Lake District's most iconic lake and along with what can only be described as an unspoilt woodland paradise, this parcel gives the new owners direct access to their own private stretch of waterfront on one of the world's most admired and famous lakes. 'The potential this property offers is genuinely unique and it will appeal to the widest range of buyers, from local property owners and investors to lifestyle purchasers, conservationists, and those looking to secure their own secluded foothold in the heart of the Lake District National Park.' The woodland, which is free from environmental stewardship or woodland schemes, is crossed by a network of 'well-maintained' hardcore tracks and benefits from natural water supplies. The land will be sold as a whole, with a guide price of £1 million to £1.2 million, or in three lots, with guide prices ranging from £150,000 to £550,000. The first lot, with a guide price of £300,000 to £360,000, is made up of 7.92 acres of woodland with 184 metres of lake frontage and includes a site with lapsed planning permission for a proposed forestry building. The second lot, with a guide prices of £530,000 to £550,000, is made up of 12.12 acres of woodland with 350 metres of lake frontage. The third lot, which has a guide price of £150,000 to £210,000, is made up of 12.48 acres of woodland with around 80 metres of lake frontage.
BBC News
21-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Woodland at Windermere Unesco site for sale after 300 years
A plot of ancient woodland on the shores of England's largest lake has gone up for sale for the first time in 300 32-acre (13-hectare) site at Windermere, in the Lake District's Unesco world heritage site, has been put on the market with a guide price of between £1m and £1.2m.H&H Land and Estate, the company marketing it, said the land was designated as ancient and semi-natural woodland, meaning there were restrictions on how it could be used.A spokesman said the land had a mix of broadleaf trees and open glades with a variety of waterfront flora and fauna. It sits on the eastern shore of the lake, under the summit of Gummer's How, near Newby Bridge. According to the Woodland Trust, ancient woods are areas of woodland that have been around since 1600 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and 1750 in Scotland.H&H said it was the first time in more than 300 years that it was up for sale."It is impossible to overstate just how remarkable and a one-off this opportunity is," director Mark Barrow said. Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
The Guardian
26-02-2025
- The Guardian
Government admits 200 more children may have been wrongly detained as adult people smugglers in Australia
The Australian government has revealed that another 200 Indonesian children may have been wrongly detained as adult people smugglers, almost double the number initially thought. Late in 2023, the federal court ordered $27.5m in compensation for an estimated 220 Indonesian children who were wrongly detained as adult people smugglers between 2010 and 2012. The children were wrongly deemed to be adults by federal police, who relied on a wildly inaccurate technique using interpretations of wrist X-rays to determine age. In fact, the children were as young as 12, and should have been sent back home to Indonesia in line with Australian government policy. They were instead sent to immigration detention and Australian jails, including, in many cases, maximum security adult jails, where they languished for years until the error was discovered. A Guardian Australia investigation in 2022 revealed how the AFP relied on the wrist X-ray technique despite being aware of information casting serious doubt on its reliability and accuracy. The Guardian also revealed how dates of birth were altered on sworn legal documents to pave the way for the children to be prosecuted as adults. The federal court is currently working through a process to identify the Indonesians involved and compensate them using the $27.5m won in the class action. That process is being led by administrator Mark Barrow, a lawyer with Ken Cush and Associates, the firm that represented the wrongly detained Indonesians. The court heard on Wednesday that the commonwealth had recently shared new records, which suggested that the number of those owed compensation has risen to a possible cohort of 440 people. That is double the number initially thought. Anthony Strahan KC, acting for the administrator, said that had caused a significant blowout in the administrator's costs as he attempts to track down the Indonesians. 'There was an expectation that it may amount to more than [220 people],' he said. 'No-one was expecting it to be very substantially more than that.' 'In fact as it's turned out … records recently disclosed by the respondent have identified a possible cohort of universal group members in the amount of approximately 440 people. 'So the number of potential people has doubled.' In class action cases of this kind, additional costs incurred by the administrator need to be approved by the court, a measure designed to stop legal costs unreasonably chewing through compensation amounts. But Strahan said the administrator could never have anticipated that the federal government would find another 200 Indonesians that needed to be found and potentially compensated. 'The total cohort is nearly twice as big as was anticipated and that has some fixed costs associated with it,' he told the court. Counsel for the Commonwealth, Jonathan Kirkwood SC, took issue with any suggestion that the federal government might be to blame for the late doubling of the cohort of Indonesians. 'There's a lot of nuance. And obviously there's a lot of things that have happened in the meantime, including that the Indonesian lawyer, whose name I will not mispronounce, has provided additional information,' he said. The hearing continues before justice Christopher Horan on Wednesday. The imprisonment of the Indonesians was caused, in part, by the use of mandatory minimum sentencing laws, introduced by the Howard government, which compelled courts to hand out five-year prison terms for people smuggling. Many of the children were duped into crewing the people smuggling boats. They were from impoverished areas of Indonesia, and were often given vague offers of work on boats, transporting cargo or livestock, only to find themselves transporting people to unknown locations. Labor has had a longstanding position of opposition to mandatory sentencing laws because of the risk they would 'lead to unjust outcomes' and are 'often discriminatory in practice'. That changed earlier this month when it decided, contrary to its own 2023 policy platform, to back mandatory sentencing for hate speech, part of its attempt to respond to anti-semitism. Documents obtained by the Guardian in the class action case show the Indonesian children repeatedly told immigration and police that they were children. The dates of birth they gave were altered – keeping the month and day, but changing the year – to ensure their ages matched what had been suggested by the flawed wrist X-ray assessments. Separately to the class action, half a dozen of the children have had their criminal convictions in the Western Australian courts quashed, with the court finding 'a substantial miscarriage of justice has occurred'.
