Historic England: Seaside heritage sites given listed status bbc.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bbc.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The designations were awarded today by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on the advice of Historic England. Our seaside towns are a huge part of our national story, it said.
Old Etonian friend of David Cameron forced to scrap plan to build fancy seaside restaurant in Devon
Plans by friend of former PM to convert a Devon boathouse into a luxury restaurant causes uproar from loclal boat owners
13 March 2021 • 5:09pm
Nick Johnston, and former PM David Cameron at Cornbury Festival in 2012
Credit: Shutterstock
It was a very 21st century peasant’s revolt. On one side stood an Old Etonian lord of the manor, on the other the residents of one of the most picturesque stretches of the South Devon coast, furious that he planned to convert a historic boathouse into a luxury restaurant and cocktail bar.