‘I’ll never move from here,’ says artist Jo Oakley, looking out across the neighbouring rooftops in the oldest part of Herne Bay. Jo moved to the coast from south-east London some five years ago:
‘I’ve always been drawn to the sea and, while my two daughters were growing up, I had a beach hut in nearby Whitstable where we’d spend every weekend during the summer. Once the girls had left home I started thinking about changing my own surroundings.’ Property in Whitstable is expensive, so Jo decided to look a little