Couple of little gems of information from the TDC website just nowParking attendants will be re-named Civil Enforcement Officers and it will no longer be essential for a ticket to be placed on your vehicle, as under the new rules, it can be posted on to you.
I don’t think this means that the parking attendant has to either stick it to you or the car to get a successful conviction. Ed.
Older people across Thanet could win £200 just by giving their views on how they would like to see Thanet District Council communicating with them in the future.
I realise now why they won’t tell me why the Pleasurama development is being allowed to go ahead despite being only half a meter above the high tide line, or why they have wiped out our seafront carparking to build a huge roundabout for large vehicles to turn that can only be accessed via a road that no one in there right mind would take a large vehicle along, it’s because I’m insufficiently decayed. Ed.
michael, its a shame Thanet don't poll all its residents on what it wants for the future. Dover council can manage it, why can't ours?
ReplyDeleteSteve I think that our main problem here in Ramsgate is that we have been governed from Margate for far too long. The towns have been rivals for tourism and business since the early 1800s this healthy state of affairs produced two very good towns. I think that were councillors in power people living in the towns that they are governing our problems would be considerably less. As it is the council officers are very much Margate centred and the councillors that are in power mostly residents of the villages and more salubrious suburbs. Frankly I feel that I am paying council tax and business rates but not being fairly represented, when consultation has occurred it has been done in a way where the questions have been framed to bias the outcome. The swimming pools is a case in point where the option to site ours on the old marina pool site where it would have boosted tourism wasn’t an option, despite the fact that the site has been earmarked for a pool since the last one closed.
ReplyDeleteThey are making a good job of paving the promanade up to the new roadabout. This is layed in sand, so presuambly will only be suitable for light weight vehicles to drive over - such as the small, ever present, TDC bin refuse collection trucks.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if ther is any chance of TDC stopping heavy builder's vehicles driving over this during the Pleasurama redevelopment? Or will it need to be repaired once the development is complete?
Fred
Michael,
ReplyDeleteYou may feel that you are governed from margate, I do not come from there, I come from Thanet, and want the best for us all, in Thanet. I may represent a ward in St Peters, but I also am proud to be a representative of Thanet. I will continue to do my best to make ALL of our Isle a better place
I wonder what happened to the idea of a parish council for Ramsgate?
ReplyDeleteWhatever the intentions, I'm afraid there is a view on the southern half of the isle that we are run by "Margate District Council" [sic].
Suggestions of selling off parts of Ramsgate's heritage (Albion House, and West Cliff Hall for example) and spending millions on the Turner centre in Margate tend to reinforce this view I'm afraid.
Fred
all, have you noticed the new enstrance to the pleasurama site, by the Pavillion? I think harbour parade has been designated the through road for all construction traffic.
ReplyDeleteGrit in your cappuccino, anyone?
and the swimming pool Michael. Those pictures of the original lido (now a car park0 are amazing. Can you imagine if ours was restored to its original state? £5mm spent on that could create something unique and be a true attraction which people could enjoy.
ReplyDeleteFred I think the main point with the roundabout is that it has taken out the main sands car park, not good for those of us trading in Ramsgate. I understand from my enquiries that this roundabout is to allow busses and coaches to turn however if you look at the picture at the top of this posting you will see that one would have to be pretty crazy to take a bus down there.
ReplyDeleteKen first let me make it clear that you are usually the only Conservative councillor to respond to anything even vaguely critical to the current administration, something you have my admiration for, so nothing personal. Ramsgate is a substantial town and I feel that the least that the current administration could do is have a cabinet member responsible for Ramsgate affairs, who would be responsible for answering reasonable questions related to the town, perhaps a weekly clinic could be arrange in Ramsgate.
There is a general feeling in Ramsgate that we are getting a bit of a raw deal and communication with the council is pretty awful. My questions about public safety go unanswered, if the arch pictured above will take 40 tonnes and it has no sign saying otherwise I should get a reply saying that it’s safe, based on some sort of facts. If it’s safe to build the Pleasurama development half a meter above the high tide line I should also get some sort of answer telling me why.
Fred last I heard of the parish council is TDC are delaying it for as long as they can and we can expect about another years wait.
Steve I suggested that the construction traffic came in through the old railway tunnel, and the swimming pool is already funded in these modern times though it would need to be indoor and heated.
Michael,
ReplyDeleteIt really needs a structural engineer to have a look at the road above Granville Marina and determine a proper weight limit for this - but I guess that would need either TDC or KCC to spend money.
It must be a bit worrying having a road running over the top of your house. I've often wondered who would be responsible for repairs to this if they were needed.
Fred
Fred these arches were built in the 1800s before heavy vehicles and in recent years they have been subject to considerable neglect, as have other cliff supports in the town. We had a similar period of neglect during WW2 and in 1947 some similar arches collapsed on the westcliff click here to see the pictures they make the point better than any words of mine could.
ReplyDeleteMichael,
ReplyDeleteI think your arches might be the site referred to by the following planning application:
THE ARCHES ADJ GRANVILLE MARINA COURT, MARINA ESPLANADE, RAMSGATE, KENT - F/TH/04/0897
Renewal of planning permission reference OL/TH/89/0841 for the erection of thre residential units with car parking facilities.
Parking on path outside flats roller coaster house all saints Avenue margate kent where people cant go out with pushchairs or mobility scooters as paths blocked
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