West Dorset District Council has put Eype Beach near Bridport up for sale for a mere quid. A council spokesperson said: ‘Eype Beach does not provide an income to the council but the property does have associated management costs and legal liabilities.
‘There is no reason why the council should continue to own it and recommends that it is sold.’
‘The lack of income generated by the beach accounts for the low asset value recorded in the report. However, this is not an indication of what a buyer may pay for the property’, the spokesman explained.
‘The council has an obligation to its taxpayers to get the best return it can from its assets and the capital obtained from the sale of property pays for the capital investments that the council makes into the local community’.
The council’s website described the beach as a ‘steeply shelving pebble beach located three miles from Bridport’, where it says walkers can ‘enjoy breathtaking views across the West Dorset coast’.
West Dorset District Council has put a series of properties up for sale, and hopes to raise £1.5 million in total.
http://www.dorsetforyou.com/media.jsp?mediaid=157860&filetype=pdf
Let’s Buy It!
Let us buy it as a community, we’d probably have to put up signs saying “No Trespassing” or “Enter at your own risk” to avoid those legal obligations. But it would be an ideal site for dolphin hunting or seagull strafing expeditions.
Anyone who wants a piece of it, put your quid in here 
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Eype Beach is to be sold by public auction possibly in the summer. See http://news.dorsetforyou.com/2011/01/eype-beach/
Roving reporter Kingston C Anute
