Want this tiny beach plot? It could cost £100,000

Eben Leonard
BBC News
Elvins Estate Agents A line of beach huts, all in different colours, with a gap in the middle Elvins Estate Agents
A previous hut on the plot was destroyed in a storm last year

Permission has been given to reconstruct a hut on a sandy beach plot with a top notch view... and a price to match.

A week after going on sale requesting offers of more than £100,000, a 32 sq m (345 sq ft) patch of beach in Abersoch, Gwynedd, has been granted planning permission for a new hut.

A previous hut on the privately-owned plot was destroyed in a storm last year, but any beach lovers should note that, as well as there being no hut, there is no electricity, heating or drainage.

Rhys Elvins, estate agent director, said the plot had received "a couple of inquiries within the past week".

He said at the "height of the market", towards the end of 2022, one hut sold for £177,000.

A council officer from Cyngor Gwynedd said the Abersoch sand dunes were a wildlife site and home to the rare vernal mining bee, so it was important that the height of new beach hut does not increase as this would shade the sand dune and bees need sunny dunes to nest in.

An officer also added that the construction of the hut should also not de-stabilise the dune.