According to the Isle of Thanet Gazette, project boss Mike Hill, is quoted as saying "we will be involving residents in the design process for the Turner contemporary and the whole regeneration process", I personally would just like to say Thank You, but I won't for this reason, most of the money for this project will not come from KCC, the project is to be built in Margate, and yet the whole thing is being led from Maidstone.
Clearly Mike Hill has an affinity with Margate, seeing as he represents that other run-down economically deprived coastal town of Tenterden, so for many he's a natural choice.
Given that most of the money is not KCCs , what I'd like to know is why are we allowing ourselves to hand this project to KCC. Why can't Thanet Council stamp its authority on this project, I know both councils are Tory run but why can't our local council have the balls to stand up for local people.
I think it is even more the case, now than in the past that we should run our own affairs, given that the debacle of what Paul Carter referred to as to "Turner offshore". Just remember that KCC played a leading role, in having apparently chosen the only design which did not make use of the Rendezvous site, as was originally intended, and then when it became apparent that costs were escalating out of all proportion seemed to take forever to terminate the project.
Perhaps the best news, is that I can find no reference to the word iconic in the gazettes report, which I believe is a term given to something being representative of a style or object, not as appears to have been the case locally, iconic meaning a hideous, expensive, ugly, possibly unstable building in the sea.
I was parked up in the Rendezvous car park yesterday. A glorious sunny day, quite a few people strolling along the front and on the beach. But no indication that anyone had strolled as far as the proposed site of our new Turnip centre, other than to get back to their cars. When, or should it be if, it becomes an attraction, maybe more people will make it that far, past the sex shop, derelict buildings, Primark, and the Waverley pub. Or maybe the idea is that it will be part of the Old Town ambience. Who knows. Maybe it will also attract a different sort of clientele from the lobster coloured lard buckets tucking into ice creams, kebabs, and tins of lager. Who knows. I don't know. I don't think KCC or TDC know either.
ReplyDeleteI quite like lobster lard buckets I am one, although not to partial to kebabs in fact Ive never had one and never will, the appeal of a sort of cone shaped sausage, rotating day in and day out, gathering as it does dust and bacteria, in the window of Take away, that trading standards forgot, has never appeal even after copius lager refreshments
ReplyDeleteEven a Seagull wont eat a cold kebab
ReplyDeleteWe will be involved alright by picking up the tab when it all goes tits up.
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hope this time they can recognise the difference between land and sea and read a map
ReplyDeleteCome on you lot. We all know it's been a total fiasco so far, and yet despite this, one man in Paul Carter, who I understand has a good track record, has nailed his colours to the mast and says it is going to happen and within budget and on time. He comes from West Kent, so why he is bothering I do not know, most wouldn't. You surely don't want Iris and the TDC idiots interfering again. Margate helped by TDC mismanagement has lost it's identity, and JG is not going to give it back. Not even the sign that he removed without listed building consent. If you're sure the TC isn't going to work, please come up with some other suggestions. Time is not on our side, so hurry up.
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