Margates Regeneration must be more than Housing
You only have to walk round Thanet and particularly Margate notice the amount of building and renovation work that’s occurring, great as it is, to see craftsmen drafted in from across Europe I just wonder who is going to pay for all this. I realise that just at the moment developers with or without assistance are bankrolling this work but long term where is the money to come from.
A few weeks ago, I heard a little of what, weighbridge or whatever their called, might have planned for Dreamland, some new sort of overnight accommodation for city types, so that they may enjoy, the new fast links to London. Although as far as I can tell, new train services will actually be from Ramsgate, not Margate still they must be right, they have one of those independent consultant firms working for them.
How will Thanet sustain itself, where are the jobs locally. I've little choice but to place, a bloody great big carbon Bootprint, up on the Thanet Way, if I’m going to earn a living. There so much attention on housing it looks like those who control our life, have accepted that Thanet will increasingly become an area for commuters.
To illustrate the perspective I come from I have to take issue with Richard Samuel, Thanet’s own Chief Exec, his comments are used in an article “Beached Progress" found on the InsideHousing website, one such quote “a lot of worthwhile work has been done, particularly around improving local people’s skills” now I would disagree for the average person who may well want to be retrained there is nothing locally available of any meaning.
You only have to walk round Thanet and particularly Margate notice the amount of building and renovation work that’s occurring, great as it is, to see craftsmen drafted in from across Europe I just wonder who is going to pay for all this. I realise that just at the moment developers with or without assistance are bankrolling this work but long term where is the money to come from.
A few weeks ago, I heard a little of what, weighbridge or whatever their called, might have planned for Dreamland, some new sort of overnight accommodation for city types, so that they may enjoy, the new fast links to London. Although as far as I can tell, new train services will actually be from Ramsgate, not Margate still they must be right, they have one of those independent consultant firms working for them.
How will Thanet sustain itself, where are the jobs locally. I've little choice but to place, a bloody great big carbon Bootprint, up on the Thanet Way, if I’m going to earn a living. There so much attention on housing it looks like those who control our life, have accepted that Thanet will increasingly become an area for commuters.
To illustrate the perspective I come from I have to take issue with Richard Samuel, Thanet’s own Chief Exec, his comments are used in an article “Beached Progress" found on the InsideHousing website, one such quote “a lot of worthwhile work has been done, particularly around improving local people’s skills” now I would disagree for the average person who may well want to be retrained there is nothing locally available of any meaning.
Up until two or three years ago the local Jobcentre used to offer worthwhile training schemes now if they offer anything, it must be under the table, Labour’s New Deal for instance doesn’t actually offer any training, least not in Thanet.Developers want to develop, local authorities want to regenerate but no one is coordinating this. Assume in five years time every property is in pristine condition how is this to be maintained in Thanet’s low-skill no-skill economy.
Finally Kate Allen in her article “Beached Progress” suggests “locals like Mr Flaig might end up feeling even more disenfranchised” don’t worry, I’ve never been included.
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