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Making magic with modernity

YOUR correspondent yearns for less boring modern estates (Letters, May 15). We wake up every morning to the modern equivalent of the Royal Crescent in Bath. Created by Barratt Developments, Lakeside Grange is situated in the former hunting grounds of the lost Oatlands Palace beside the 18th-century Broadwater Lake, Weybridge. It won the Evening Standard 1994 Awards: ‘Best New Development’, ‘Best New Family Home’ and ‘New Home of the Year’.

Midge and Douglas Connell, Surrey

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