Doing nothing at Dreamland's not the answer
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by Nisha Chopra
Thanet District Council is warning that "doing nothing at
Dreamland is not acceptable".
The local authority's stern words come ahead of a public inquiry
on Tuesday into its bid to get a compulsory purchase order [CPO]
for the site.
The former amusement park on the Margate seafront has been left
to decay and been virtually unused for the past five
years.
The council says it has been forced to set out a case to
buy the land.
But the site owners, Margate Town Centre Regeneration
Company, are said to have their own ideas of how the
site can be revamped into a major tourism hotspot again - with talk
about building houses.
The ccouncil is now fixing urgent repairs to the
Dreamland cinema and if the CPO is successful it will be able to
restore the whole site, which includes the scenic railway.
Clive Hart, leader of the council said: "It's heartbreaking
how anybody lets a building like that fall into that disrepair - to
see the deterioration that's been allowed to happen is tragic."
He added: "It's the heart of Margate and the fortunes of
Dreamland run parallel with the fortunes of the town and the site
has become a blight on the area."
Friday, January 06 2012
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