We have, nonetheless, been experiencing the odd blow down here on Kent's Ramsgate Peninsula. According to the excellent FixMyStreet website (from which I have purloined the photo below) the hoarding around the Granville Eyesore here on the trendy East Cliff has succumbed, and is partially blocking a road...
Meanwhile I see the Ramsgate Society is offering a £100 reward for information leading to the conviction the knuckle-dragging vandals who desecrated the restored shelters on the front. Good luck with that!
And the Krug is on ice for the end of next month, when the deadline for those other knuckle-dragging vandals, SFP Ventures, to get on with their non-development at the Pleasurama Eyesore runs out. Our beloved council appears to have grown a full set of cajones this time, the indications being they will tell SFP to shove it where the sun doesn't shine (Margate? - Ed.). About time too.
My chum Councillor Motormouth has already congratulated the 1000+ Friends of Ramsgate Seafront group, which has, er, 1000-handedly carried out a high profile Facebook campaign to rid the town of this more-than-decade-long blot on our seascape. That seems a trifle premature, but what the heck! Well done chaps!
Now, what are we going to put in its place? Heritage theme park? Van Gogh Museum? Ginormagantuan Wetherspoons? Site-specific barker's nest installation? Answers below please.
Pip pip!
Update Jan 2014: The hoarding has now been repaired - hurrah!
Update Feb 2014: But now the rest of it has blown down - boo!
14 comments:
How about a Tesco to match Margate?
Er, probably best not to mention matches and Margate in the same sentence, old bean.
How about a car park so people can actually come to Ramsgate sands, enjoy the beach and the many hostelries and cafes already abundantly available. The poles could be retained for lashing vehicles to in case Michael's crane throwing tsunami appears.
Why not the Ezekiel World of Adventures, filled with white knuckle rides:
- The Magic Carpet (whisking punters through jail cells from the nineteenth century to the present day)
- Come Fly with Biggles (being flipped over by Buylgarians when seated in a teeny tiny single engine prop)
- The Marie Celeste Wave Rider (sponsored by (the ghost of) Euro Ferries)
- Bugger the Bloggers (an old-style cake-walk against the backdrop of local bloggers open err mouths)
It would make a brilliant race track for go-carts, BMX bikes, scramblers, that sort of thing. It could be done relatively cheaply and quickly too. Or for more money, what about Hornbyland, with model train layouts, huge Scalextric tracks, related rides, cafes, in other words a big version of what they already have next to B&Q?
How about a fucking great big "Welcome" sign to greet the hundreds of passengers each month all the way from Holland on our very own KLM Schipol service?
How about 80 or 90 well designed flats which do not poke up above the clifftop and have a proper flood risk assessment, which will attract 80 or 90 well heeled families and give a boost to the Ramsgate economy. They may even be able to purchase lunch for the family in Wetherspoons at the Pav.
How about a focking great big "Fock off Charles Buchanan you focker for polluting us" sign?
Beach huts are the answer. Daily rental at Whitstable is £55 and £75 in peak. That could bring in more than £600K a year for an enterprising council.
premature is the word! the pleasurama drama is not over yet, the tdc have squirmed their way through over a decade of 3 unwise monkeys! what they say and what they do are two very different things, i live in the hope that they have had enough of this. i hope that they do see sense, grow a set and get our land back from these incompetant so-called developers. giving a chance to others who do have the vitals to do something! even turf it over would be better than this! fingers crossed tdc stick to their independant legal advise. they have been known many times to go against the advise from those who are supposed to know better, time will tell! 28th feb is the deadline, not long now, and no matter how hard they try, no way will they ever get to completion point.
Bulldoze it, make a small kids fun park, pitch and putt golf.. or how about a small shallow paddling pool like the one at Deal.
My contact in Whitstable tells me there the beach hut saga has caused revolution. Apparently a petition of over 4,000 signatures has been collected demanding the resignation of the Leader and his Cabinet. I am watching events closely perhaps we might learn things we can apply in Thanet
Demolish the whole area including the promenade, and make a bigger Margate sized beach.
Update - Kent Highways have at least now cleared the fallen hoarding off D'Este Road.
Re Wetherspoons maybe that is not such a bad idea as Pleasurama used to claim to have the longest bar in Britain.
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