Ramsgate Streets Book

 

Ramsgate Streets Book

.So starting with the new book about Ramsgate, picture above. This is called Ramsgate Streets written by Benedict Kelly and Gerald Tripp. Stock of the book has just arrived here at Michael's bookshop in Ramsgate. This is a very large A4 730 page detailed history of some selected Ramsgate Streets. It sells for £30 and I think it's going to appeal to Ramsgate historians who are interested in very detailed aspects of the town centre through the years. It pretty much goes through each building individually so if you own a building in the streets it covers it will probably have some information about it.

   

A couple of sample pages to give you some idea of the scope of the book.

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Thanet District Council is planning to apply new legislation, under the High Street Rental Auction (HSRA) scheme, to proactively tackle the issue of long-term vacant commercial properties. The aim is to revitalise the district’s high streets and town centres, ensuring they remain vibrant hubs for the community and local economy.

That was council speak for the new scheme which forces landlords with empty shops in Ramsgate and Margate to put them into a rental auction fo a 5 year lease, so that they can come back into use .

There's no way out of this for the landlord as the lease will carry on with the property even if the landlord sells it. 

This is particularly good news for Ramsgate where the empty shops tend to be very large ones and the rents incredibly high so they stay empty year after year.