Hello and welcome to this website all about Sandbanks at Poole in Dorset. Sandbanks is a small peninsula about 1km square, it crosses the the mouth of Poole Harbour on the English Channel coast.
Sandbanks is well known for the beautiful Sandbanks Beach and the very exclusive properties it surrounds. Sandbanks has, by area, the fourth highest land value in the world! The Sandbanks and Canford Cliffs Coastline area has been dubbed as "Britain's Palm Beach" by the national media.
Sandbanks is connected to Studland by a chain ferry, this is a ferry which runs across the mouth of the harbour. The Sandbanks area of Poole Harbour (also known as North Haven Lake) is widely used for water sports and by light marina craft. The north side is home to the Southern Headquarters of the Royal Yachting Association and an international sailing school.
Exclusive homes are a plenty on Sandbanks along with the immediate region, stretching east from the Harbour to The Avenue (the eastern boundary of Poole). The adjacent areas of Lilliput, Branksome Park and Canford Cliffs, also have the largest concentration of excusive properties outside London. Harry Redknapp is among many famous residents of the Sandbanks area.
In 2005 a modest bungalow on the Sandbanks peninsula sold for a whopping three million pounds, despite its state of disrepair. The same bungalow, in the same condition, went on sale in 2007 for four million pounds, attracting further attention. Its not uncommon for properties on Sandbanks to attract sale prices of upwards of £5 million
Sandbanks' properties have been adversely affected by the Financial crisis of 2007–2009, with a significant fall in house prices across the area. However, in July 2009 a 15,000 sq. ft. plot of land was put up for sale for £13.5 million.
Three hotels are situated on Sandbanks, one of which is the historically important Haven Hotel. This hotel was constructed in 1887 on the site of a previous hotel named the North Haven Inn which was built in 1838. The hotel was both the home and centre of wireless experiments by Guglielmo Marconi in the late 1890s, and was the third place in the world to boast a permanent wireless station (1899).
Views to the north of Sandbanks extend across Poole Harbour and to Poole. To the south of Sandbanks the views extend across the English Channel and to the world heritage coastline of Studland and Swanage in the west.