Perhaps there has been another design change or perhaps they are concerned about causing vibration so close to the cliff façade.
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Wednesday 16 February 2011
You don’t always get what you expect at Kent Terrace in Ramsgate.
Perhaps there has been another design change or perhaps they are concerned about causing vibration so close to the cliff façade.
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My guess for the concrete pad on the Pleasurama site would be a temporary base for a tower crane.
ReplyDeleteWith such a large development and poor access at both ends I would think a tower crane is essential
Readit could be I don’t see that they could load stuff to the tower crane from that end of the site without dragging it across the site first.
ReplyDeleteI don’t know if you noticed the foundations to the 1860 cliff balustrade, an odd structure that I can’t see quite how it was intended to perform, I expected the inclined front to extend to solid chalk and even so couldn’t work out how its thickness relative to height is supposed to work. It looks to be some sort of cliff support structure, weird.
I have doubts if the concrete pad reaches down to bedrock so suspect it probably is something temporary, it really is a pity that they don’t have some information about what they are doing available somewhere.
This isn’t what we were promised in terms of public information once the development started and hardly seems a sensible approach in terms of taking the town with them on such an important project. I have made some enquires and hope to have some more information by the end of the week.