The UK's 'worst' seaside town that's now 'millionaire's row' with £1m houses everywhere

It’s just to accidental Skegness hasn’t ever had the astir prestigious reputation.

Once a fashionable seaside vacation destination for families up and down the state and location to the UK’s archetypal Butlin’s, the clip hasn’t been benignant to the coastal Lincolnshire town, which has gained an unfavourable estimation for being run-down and mostly a spot tired.

In fairness, it’s a estimation locals successful ‘Skeggy’ person cheerfully embraced, with a mock ‘Welcome to Skeg Vegas’ motion acceptable up connected the outskirts of the town.

In 2017, the question website Destination Tips ranked Skegness among North Korea and Syria arsenic 1 of the worst places successful the full satellite for a holiday, describing the municipality arsenic a “pile of dirt”.

“Once thought of arsenic a quaint seaside municipality successful bluish England, Skegness is present a heap of ungraded bordering the North Sea with a run-down amusement parkland idly resting connected the land,” they said.

Speaking astatine the time, then-mayor Dick Edginton branded the study “absolutely offensive”.

“There seems to beryllium definite radical who look to bash thing but denigrate British seaside resorts,” helium said. “Skegness is 1 of the champion resorts successful the state and has the highest visitant numbers. There are grounds levels of concern successful the edifice astatine the moment, which shows assurance successful concern from some section and nationalist companies.

“How anyone tin comparison Skegness to North Korea - 1 of the astir oppressive regimes - is perfectly offensive.”

But the town’s fortunes could beryllium astir to change, with plans successful spot for a £4 billion, 11-mile transport nexus crossed the Wash. This would nexus Lincolnshire straight to Norfolk, including a road, railway line, tidal barrage, hydroelectric powerfulness plant, and offshore instrumentality port.

The project, named Centre Port, would chopped travel times betwixt Lincolnshire and their mostly much affluent neighbours to the southbound from astir an hr and a fractional to conscionable 20 minutes. This could supply a captious changeable successful the limb for Skegness - which elected Reform Party lawman person Richard Tice arsenic its MP successful past year’s General Election - with the area’s lodging marketplace already connected the up.

While the mean location terms successful the town, according to rightmove, is presently £196,754, immoderate property agents are predicting location prices could summation by arsenic overmuch arsenic 40% if the task goes ahead. And immoderate spot prices person already topped £1 million.

Two properties successful Mill Lane, connected the bluish borderline of the town, are presently connected the marketplace for much than £1 million. One with 5 bedrooms is asking for £1,225,000, portion different with 8 bedrooms is up for £1,400,000.

There’s besides a five-bedroom location successful Burgh Le Marsh, somewhat retired of the town, connected the marketplace for £1,200,000.

Meanwhile, a five-acre spot of onshore successful Seacroft, southbound of Skegness, is up for merchantability for £1 cardinal - with readying support successful spot for six luxury homes, which themselves could outgo upwards of £1 million.

A hunt connected Rightmove for properties with terms tags of much than £500,000 besides brings up a steadfast fig of properties.

Carl Smith, of Skegness property cause HomeMove, told MailOnline: "We could easy spot an summation successful prices of 30 to 40% – but it could beryllium much than that – this spot has immense imaginable and radical and businesses are opening to spot it."