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Renewal Area Team

Thanet District Council

P O Box 9

Cecil Street

Margate

Kent

CT9 1XZ

 

Carla Wenham-Jones

Housing Renewal Manager

01843 577792

 

Dave Farmer

Renewal Area Officer 01843 577407

 

Lesley Dalton

Project Support Officer

01843 577748

 

Email: housingrenewalarea
@thanet.gov.uk

Renewal Area Declaration

Further phases of the council’s renewal programme have been formally declared in parts of Margate Central and Cliftonville West to help improve the physical and environmental regeneration of the area.

 

The decision was taken at a meeting of Thanet District Council’s Cabinet on Thursday 11 December and now Renewal Areas will be created to cover the town centre of Margate, including the Old Town, Grotto Hill, Poets Corner and an additional area of Cliftonville West, which is to the east of Wilderness Hill, up to and including Madeira Road.

 

This decision was made after Renewal Officers consulted with local residents about the idea by distributing leaflets and surveys to every home in the area, displaying posters, and advertising on the Council’s website and in local papers. Three Open Days, at the Margate Media Centre, Holy Trinity and St. John’s CE Primary School and St. Paul’s Community Centre, were also held and around 250 people attended to give their views.

 

From the information gathered at these events and from returned questionnaires, the initial results show that approximately 40% of the residents thought that the main areas of concern are Enviromental issues.

These include

  • Rubbish problems – action to be taken against property owners for dumping rubbish
  • Improve/increase street lighting
  • More street cleaners
  • More dog bins & waste bins
  • More information on recycling

 

Intention to declare renewal area leaflet - 2007 (pdf)

 

The existing Renewal Area was declared in Cliftonville West in May 2005 and since then, nearly 200 grants of up to £2,000 have been given out to property owners in the area for projects such as repainting the exterior of their houses, repairs to windows, doors and guttering, minor roof repairs and damp proofing of properties. This has made a positive visual impact to the area.

 

 

In December 2005 local people in parts of the Cliftonville West and Margate Central wards, were asked a range of questions, including what makes their community a good place to live, what their main concerns were about their area and what is most important to people in the future. All questionnaires returned by Friday 24 February were included in this consultation.

 

 

A number of community projects have also been supported by the Renewal Area team, including improvements to Dalby Square, the lighting scheme at St. Paul’s Church, introducing hanging basket trees and new litter bins along Northdown Road, alleygates, and providing maintenance work in Trinity Gardens. They have also helped community groups with a number of clear-ups in the area and were instrumental in the crackdown on anti-social issues by the Council which took place in October.

 

 

 
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