There are 459 beach huts on Hove seafront that are privately owned by residents in the seaside resort, with the annual cost of licences generating around £192,000 for the council.

FRESH plans for beach huts beneath a Swanage hotel have been submitted after a previous scheme was refused by district councillors. The owners of the Pines Hotel in Burlington Road originally ...

That amounts to nearly a third of the £255,000 average house price in the UK, but it's far from a record: a hut in Dorset on the Channel coast sold for £330,000 this month.