A Leasehold Self-Contained Third Floor Flat.
Guide Price: TBC
Auction date: 15th July
Venue: The Cumberland Hotel, Great Cumberland Place, London, W1H 7DL
Thursday, 8 July 2010
For sale: 6A Lombard Street, Kent CT9 1EJ
Situated in Margate's Old Town and cultural quarter. A Leasehold Self-Contained First Floor Flat subject to an Assured Shorthold Tenancy in a Grade II Listed Georgian building.
Lot details:
Details of Grade II listing:
Guide Price: TBC
Auction date: 15th July
Venue: The Cumberland Hotel, Great Cumberland Place, London, W1H 7DL
For sale: 31 & 32 Fort Crescent
Up round the corner from the Turner Contemporary gallery, this imposing Grade II Listed Georgian seafront property is up for a crazy £170,000 - £190,000.
A Freehold Double Fronted End of Terrace arranged to provide Seven Self-Contained Residential Units. Three Units subject to Leases, Four Units subject to Assured Shorthold Tenancies (Lot 342). Together with a House to the Rear which is subject to an Assured Shorthold Tenancy (Lot 343). To be offered either Individually or Collectively.
Guide Price: £170,000 - £190,000
Sold: £307,000
Auction date: 15th July
Venue: The Cumberland Hotel, Great Cumberland Place, London, W1H 7DL
Details of listing on English Heritage's Images of England website:
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Margate Architecture Blog in Coast Magazine!
Blimey! We don't know what we've done to deserve it! But anyway, perhaps we'll allow ourselves a little 'big-up!' Our very own Margate Architecture blog is featured in the real world paper magazine of Coast Mag this month. Kindly sent to us by a reader from Herne Bay Matters.
Thanks!
CABE Urban Panel Advice - do not pour money into the roundabout
Remember way back in June 2009 when we posted the CABE Margate Urban Panel Review Document from their March 2009 visit?
Here is the whole Word document for download and to print off:
Link to download the PDF file on CABE's site here.
Having a further peruse of the detail of the review, now reveals advice that is extremely pertinent to the public realm consultation along the seafront, roundabout and Arlington House, and adds weight to the argument that limited resources could be better applied to other areas within the town.
In particular we note:
3.2 The Georgian town built on the hill fields beyond the High Street put Margate at the forefront ofEnglish seaside development for a while and, had Cecil Square and the Assembly Rooms survived intact, the image of the town might well be different today. What is left is poignant proof that good intentions can lead to disappointing outcomes. Staff were keen to point out that Cecil Square remains a viable municipal centre with many of the facilities the town needs still available there. This is true and important, but a high price has been paid to achieve it. Within the governance and local politics ofThanet, it is great for Margate that the civic offices are located in Cecil Square along with the library, Post Office and so on. However, the building that houses them is so out of scale and overbearing as to drive the image of the rest of the square from the mind. What is more, the square has suffered as badly as almost any from the non-negotiable demands of the highway engineer. The Panel’s comments on this can be found at (7.1) below, but it will be no surprise that the repair of thepublic realm here is strongly recommended. Hawley Square, with a good green space and the elegant Theatre Royal, along with Trinity Square with its sadly much expanded but still well managed green space, are examples of the value which Georgian planning brings to today’s town and Cecil Square should rejoin them.7.1 One area where the Panel saw the opportunity for trimming the sails was in the public realm proposals. While the Panel is a strong proponent of the quality of the public realm generally, it was concerned that the enormous areas potentially involved could resulteither in loss of focus, or in huge costs which would not deliver sufficient returns. So for, example, the Panel much admired the benefit which has been derived from the relatively small and affordable areas of public realmwork in and around the Old Town – particularly the new piazza facing the harbour. It did not believe that the same effect could be achieved by pouring large sums of money into the roundabout by the station or into some hundred yards of the front. Rather members felt that there-creation of Cecil Square as a pedestrian dominated space of quality would offer a far better return for residents and visitors alike. Engineer led schemes of the sort defacing the square are often up for renewal for engineering reasons and now would be the time to ensure that the preparation work has all been done, the vision of another Georgian square of quality being returned to the public has been promulgated and political drive is behind a great transformation.8.0 Another aspect of management of the public realm is connectivity. It was suggested to the Panel that the development history of Margate combined with its topography had somehow made a place which wasdifficult to comprehend and navigate and where there were critical disconnections which had to be overcome. The Panel did not accept the analysis and thought that the emphasis on connectivity in the masterplan was overdone. In many ways Margate is easier to understandthan other seaside towns. Few others, if any, can boast a view of the sands from the main entrance of an attractivestation Once the short walk which that view inspires has been undertaken (and the Panel accepted the case for some improvement of the pedestrian route past Buenos Ayres) then the Harbour, the Droit House and the emerging Turner Contemporary will be obvious. The Panel thought there was strong case for the Droit House to contain orientation displays and probably for some investment in modern, map carrying fingerposts. Both ofthese should then direct visitors to the attractive small inter-connecting routes which are one of the pleasures of the town, which should be more widely shared.10.2 Servicing such an economy could have a number of very positive outcomes. Boarding houses could once more function for their original purpose, providing opportunities for self-employed operators and entrepreneurs to establish high quality businesses and provide local employment. Modern guests expect high quality local cooking and the Isle of Thanet is a great place for local sourcing. The very significant skills required to achieve such an aim could be the focus of new further education provision in the town (such as a catering college linked to a training hotel), and the new‘5 star’ boarding houses could both help build the market for and complement new high grade hotels (much better to wait for this moment than fall for a budget hotel in the short term).
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Are Tesco and Freshwater proposing a hotel and seafront shops?
I'm confused. Perhaps someone can help me. The article in last Friday's Gazette 'Arlington Residents Say No to Tesco' by Richard Spillett stated that the proposal included a hotel and creation of shop spaces on the seafront side. I thought that we are still awaiting a planning application in July and that at the meeting it was confirmed there is no longer a hotel or seafront shops on the cards. Instead, they are proposing to errect 'attractive' hoardings. Nice.
And how about an environmental impact assessment? TDC's Doug Brown stated it's not needed as there have been assurances from Tesco. Is this right?
Monday, 5 July 2010
Local Authority crack down on run down seafront buildings in Hastings, East Sussex
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/10498749.stm
Landlords who allow buildings to fall into disrepair in an East Sussex resort are receiving letters from the council.
Hastings Borough Council said owners faced serious action if they allowed seafront buildings to become run down.
The leader of the council, Jeremy Birch, has noted down every building needing repair or redecoration.
Owners will receive a letter encouraging them to smarten up their buildings. Failure to respond could result in enforcement action.
Mr Birch said: "If you own a building in our town you have a social responsibility for its upkeep.
"The council will remind you of your responsibility and if you don't accept that we have the power to compel you to, you can be taken to court, fined or even be forced to pay after we do the work on your behalf.
"The seafront is the town's shop window. If it looks dowdy and scruffy day trippers or potential business investors will just drive on by and go somewhere else.
"We can't afford for that to happen. In difficult economic times there is even more competition for visitors and inward investors so we have to make sure the town looks as good as it can."
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