Locals at Beacon Cove in Brighton are angry at a proposed development at Agatha Christie's favourite Devon beach © Provided by Daily Mail In the last few years campaigners have reclaimed the beach, with locals Graham Stephenson and Jim Cairns raising money to gate it off at night. It remained popular until an ugly walled walkway was built in the 1980s when the area slipped into misuse and became an out-of-hours party area.
The pebble beach was a favourite of the best-selling author - who wrote Miss Marple and Poirot - and in Christie's day it was the Ladies Bathing Cove. The firm said they would be used as holiday homes and any single user would only be able to stay for a maximum of 12 weeks a year - but they would be available all year round.Īged 13, Christie almost drowned at the Torquay beauty spot while trying to help a nephew and had to be rescued by a passing sailor. Hertfordshire-based Hemel Hempstead Property Company has been given the go-ahead for them on land half way up the cliff. Devon residents have been left outraged after planning permission was granted for five holiday homes on Agatha Christie's favourite beach.ĭevelopers have been given the green light to build a modern block of huts at Beacon Cove - dubbed 'Agatha Christie Mile'.
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