Eight of the most spectacular hotels with private airstrips around the world
Wealthy travellers will be flocking to these fabulous private-haven hotels, villas and islands when travel restrictions ease
Arriving on the airstrip on the island of Laucala
A derelict estate on Scotland’s Black Isle peninsula has been immaculately restored and is re-launching this month as a series of suites and stylish self-catering cottages. The set-up couldn’t feel more appropriate.
It’s not the decadent, dusky pink velvet headboards in the bedrooms, the Tesla charging points or the enormous outdoor firepit for sitting around after dinner that make Newhall Mains feel very ‘now’ - it’s the private airstrip that runs alongside it, which means guests can fly right in for their holiday on a privately owned or chartered light aircraft.
The Sparkford to Ilchester scheme will help to improve journey times and reliability on the A303 in Somerset and improve links to Dorset and South West. Picture: Highways England A congestion-busting upgrade to dual the A303 in the South West has been given the green light by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps. The upgrade, between Sparkford and Ilchester in Somerset, will tackle congestion on the traffic-clogged single carriageway section of the arterial route. On an average day, the road carries 23,500 vehicles, but numbers increase significantly in the summer, particularly at weekends, making journeys unreliable and unpredictable. The road also is a key road for those travelling to and from Dorset with its links to the A37, especially in the Summer.
The Sparkford to Ilchester scheme will help to improve journey times and reliability on the A303 in Somerset and improve links to Dorset and South West. Picture: Highways England A congestion-busting upgrade to dual the A303 in the south west has been given the green light by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps. The upgrade, between Sparkford and Ilchester in Somerset, will tackle congestion on the traffic-clogged single carriageway section of the arterial route. On an average day, the road carries 23,500 vehicles, but numbers increase significantly in the summer, particularly at weekends, making journeys unreliable and unpredictable. The road also is a key route for those travelling to and from Dorset with its links to the A37, especially in the summer.
Highways England welcomes green light for major A303 upgrade
Highways England has welcomed today’s go-ahead for a major road upgrade that will transform journeys in the South West and boost the regional economy.
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29 January 2021 The Sparkford to Ilchester scheme will help to improve journey times and reliability on the A303 in Somerset
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has given the formal green light to a plan to create three miles of high-quality dual carriageway on the A303 in Somerset.
The upgrade, between Sparkford and Ilchester, will tackle congestion on the traffic-clogged single carriageway section of the arterial route.
On an average day the road carries 23,500 vehicles, but numbers increase significantly in the summer, particularly at weekends, making journeys unreliable and unpredictable.
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Woodbridge in Suffolk is an ancient town on the banks of the River Deben, some eight miles upriver from the sea. It’s a charming market town with some lovely green spaces, places to eat and drink and a museum as well as a railway station from where you reach Ipswich in under 20 minutes and London Liverpool Street station in just over an hour and a half.
And for sale in the heart of the historic town is the Grade II -listed Burkitt House, with the Ipswich office of Jackson-Stops is handling the sale at a guide price of £2.95m.