The future of West Cliff Hall, Ramsgate's former Motor Museum, is still in doubt.Adscene trumpeted that the listed building had been given a 'new lease of life' on its front page last Thursday, complete with a photo of Our Sandy handing over the keys to representatives of the Global Generation Church, who propose running it as a community centre.
But according to a statement from the council's chief executive yesterday, a lease has yet to be signed, and the church group is only being considered as a 'short term', 'temporary' lessee. The statement adds: 'It appears that Global Generation Church invited Cllr Ezekiel to meet them at the property this week when the photograph was taken. Global were not authorised to have taken this action.'
You can read the full text of the statement on Councillor Green's Eastcliff Matters blog.
According to Global Generation's website the group was reformed in 2001 after some soul searching:
Global Generation took a more detailed look at why God would want a church in Ramsgate, out of this came the realisation that we wanted to be known as a Gift To The Town.
I'm sure their hearts are in the right place, but a much better gift to the town would be a long term solution to restore this wonderful building and bring it back to life for the benefit of all Ramsgatonians.
If you want to see just how neglected the exterior is, here's Philip Page's report on the state of the arts in Ramsgate from ECR TV a few weeks back:
4 comments:
Oops don't tell us sandy beach has slipped up again!
Rather seems as if he has. Perhaps he should have checked his facts before he graced us with his presence here on the south side for a quick pre-election photo op.
Looks like Sandy(Guv'nor of Thanet)Ezekiel is desperately looking for face-saving photo shoots since his square up to the Mayor of Margate recently.
ya see ,,,
I toldya so,, (cheesy grin)
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