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Entire street of 24 homes – including shop and post office – up for auction with £1.6m price tag | Bristol Live

Residents fear they will be forced to leave their homes after a charity put an entire street of 24 homes up for sale – for £1.6M. Dock Road in Sharpness in Gloucestershire is to be auctioned next week by the Canal and River Trust.

The single lot – which is being marketed by auction house Allsop – has been described as a ‘rare unbroken street’. It comprises of twelve terrace houses, eight semi-detached and two detached properties.

The sale also includes two semi-detached mixed use buildings, a single-storey workshop, three garages and 1.7 acres of vacant land. One of the buildings was the Sharpness Post Office.

Tenants were informed of the sale through a letter from Allsop – and said they are ‘shocked and worried’ – adding that a new owner would likely increase rents. A trust spokesperson dismissed the claim saying there “would be no change to the residents’ tenancies”.

The street currently generates rents of about £168,000 for the Canal and River Trust. Amanda Cawston, 54, who has lived on the same house for almost three years with her husband and son fears she will be forced to leave her family home.

She said: “We thought we would be here forever and now we don’t know what the future holds. It is a shock – we have spent a lot of time getting the house the way we like. We might not be able to afford this home in the long term.

“It is a real concern. We have Christmas in the horizon. This is a lovely community and everybody gets along with each other. We may have to move again. We are not in a position to buy and rents are expensive – we really don’t want to leave if we don’t have to.”

Resident Amanda Cawston(Image: Tom Wren / SWNS)

“I can’t imagine the rents will stay the same, they will maybe increase in line with private landlords.”


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