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Margate Seafront , after the 4x4 quadbike racing the previous weekend, with children playing in the artificial 'Dunes'
Another from the instagram app. A shelter take on a walk on the Clontarf seafront. The snow is getting slushy and starting a long drawn out thaw...
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The seafront as captured from the Marina. I liked this shot with the woman in read walking her dogs and the single gull in the sky.
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The seafront at Margate with (near the middle of the photo) the Turner Contemporary art gallery (2006-11) by David Chipperfield Architects.
This is a pic I took the other night from Lorton Meadows,
In the background you can see Portland, then coming forward you can see the ship I work on Condor Vitesse in the harbour, the building to the right is the Pavilion theatre, you can also see St Johns Church on the seafront, the nearset view is the north end of Lodmoor and the Weymouth rugby club.
You have to read my previous posting for this to make sense.
Somewhere along the line the plans were radically altered [the ice rink has gone] but few people seemed to notice at the time. Not that it’s felt it would have made any difference. Some people have dubbed the new proposal as Benidorm on the beach. All the small houses have been replaced by a series of high rise apartments [some incorporating town houses], although the latest plans do show houses built in front of the apartments the other side of the boardwalk on the beach! I read that they may be on stilts.
What happened? Surprise surprise, the sea defences etc etc cost an awful lot more than was originally planned for, so building a relative handful of nice houses simply is not viable to recoup the cost of the project. So now we have plans for at least 1,000 homes on the beach and that means high-rise apartments. High-rise is relative of course, but high for Folkestone. They will be as tall as the Leas promenade above.
My picture is of the latest plans. I am particularly against [I] – houses being built right opposite the Burstin Hotel which is currently a tree lined broad walkway overlooking the inner harbour.
But we shouldn’t get too excited. If you have been following this album you will know that phase 1 [Plot B1 on the map] is near completion, and one-bedroom apartments are being offered from £475,000, £685,000 for two bedrooms. These are the cheaper ones [without a sea view?].
I’ve read that each apartment block has to be fully sold before the next phase is started because they are self-funding. I don’t know whether this is true, but here’s the thing. It’s true that Londoners have been buying up property in the town but that’s because it’s relatively cheap compared to London. I don’t believe they are going to pay London prices of Folkestone properties just because they have a sea view. The view is really not that interesting. So who is going to buy them? Certainly not locals. [There are no ‘affordable’ homes in phase 1 because of the high building costs]. I’m thinking this may be Folkestone’s White Elephant, but who knows. If I’m around long enough I’ll try and keep you updated.