[slipstream42]

Recently moved quite near to Margate have heard so much bad stuff about it and I now know why people moan about it its gone way downhill. Anyone go there or live there? whats your views? what would you do to improve it?

[lemoncurd]

Originally Posted by slipstream42

Recently moved quite near to Margate have heard so much bad stuff about it and I now know why people moan about it its gone way downhill. Anyone go there or live there? whats your views? what would you do to improve it?

Rebuild it in the French Riviera.

[slipstream42]

Lol! it surely needs something everyone there looks really miserable and rough lol

[dglondon]

Its a shame, always like to go there as a kid.

Could do with a faster rail to London to help revive its fortunes

[slipstream42]

Originally Posted by dglondon

Its a shame, always like to go there as a kid.

Could do with a faster rail to London to help revive its fortunes

Since moving to a little village a few miles from it, Ive heard that there is a high speed train that sometimes comes through Margate station but Ive hardly ever seen it, same with Ramsgate there is sposed to be a high speed link train but no one ever see's it.

South Eastern trains from Margate to London are pretty good to be honest, I remember getting to London in just under an hour and a half as opposed to driving 73 miles from Margate to there and it taking a boring 3 hour journey

[Fancy pants]

We went to Margate one year on holiday and wasn't impressed! We spent nearly all our time in Broadstairs.

[slipstream42]

Originally Posted by Fancy pants

We went to Margate one year on holiday and wasn't impressed! We spent nearly all our time in Broadstairs.

Lovely place that is I dont tend to go there at night though as its a trouble spot but usually in the daytime its lovely. Try Ramsgate as well it has a lush harbour, I discovered that recently and always meet my mates at weekends down there plus there some real nice pubs, clubs and wine bars too

Margate is the land of milk and honey
I think the problem with the place is, is that it's been a dumping ground for many years for many people on benefits many of whom are undesirables and fuel the stereotype of those on benefits.
If there were more working people living there they'd be more council tax payers and probably more investment.

[cosmo]

Originally Posted by humphryb

Margate is the land of milk and honey
I think the problem with the place is, is that it's been a dumping ground for many years for many people on benefits many of whom are undesirables and fuel the stereotype of those on benefits.
If there were more working people living there they'd be more council tax payers and probably more investment.

A lot of the old seaside towns have gone that way.

Great Yarmouth is a right dump as well now. Full of oddballs, junkies and low lifes.

[slipstream42]

There are working people living there but they usually work in Ramsgate, Broadstairs even Birchington! as Margate is like a ghsot town! have you seen the high street? its just a load of closed down shops, a few independant shops that no one ever goes in, a joke shop, a bong shop that sells drugs (how they get away with that I dont know) and just a shit load of shoddy kebab shops. The night life is non existant really, Margate needs that tourist attraction, there buiding this art gallery that no one wants. The council wont rebuild Dreamland and are leaving it to rot its a real shame!

[You_mo]

Did the property boom destroy it? I imagine developers realised that there was more money to be made from granny flats than tourist attractions. Then tourists stopped coming. Less money comes into the town and the downward spiral begins.

Originally Posted by slipstream42

There are working people living there but they usually work in Ramsgate, Broadstairs even Birchington! as Margate is like a ghsot town! have you seen the high street? its just a load of closed down shops, a few independant shops that no one ever goes in, a joke shop, a bong shop that sells drugs (how they get away with that I dont know) and just a shit load of shoddy kebab shops. The night life is non existant really, Margate needs that tourist attraction, there buiding this art gallery that no one wants. The council wont rebuild Dreamland and are leaving it to rot its a real shame!

The high street is in a right state, as for Dreamland at some point that'll go up in smoke again. The owner of the place Jimmy Godden seems to have *ahem* bad luck with his properties, they tend to get torched when no longer needed.

Originally Posted by cosmo

A lot of the old seaside towns have gone that way.

Great Yarmouth is a right dump as well now. Full of oddballs, junkies and low lifes.

You've just reminded me cosmo of the only thing in Margate I do like, Cosmos chinese restaurant on the sea front

[welwynrose]

Originally Posted by humphryb

The high street is in a right state, as for Dreamland at some point that'll go up in smoke again. The owner of the place Jimmy Godden seems to have *ahem* bad luck with his properties, they tend to get torched when no longer needed.

There is a campaign to save Dreamland

http://www.savedreamland.co.uk/

[slipstream42]

Originally Posted by humphryb

You've just reminded me cosmo of the only thing in Margate I do like, Cosmos chinese restaurant on the sea front

I had food poisoning from there :/

Originally Posted by slipstream42

I had food poisoning from there :/

Sorry to hear that slipstream

[cultureman]

People here seem to be confusing the High Street with Marine Terrace [the sea front]. I think the plan is to reduce the high street in length just to the area from the seafront to Cecil Square. All the shops currently north of Cecil will relocate south of it so reducing the number of unoccupied shopfronts. This is a sensible idea.

Margate as a shopping centre, and by extension as a town, , has been destroyed by the out of town shopping development that is Westwood Cross, [as have to a lesser extent B/stairs and Ramsgate]. This means the Margate high street is now too long.

[slipstream42]

I must admit I dont hardly go to Margate I go to Ramsgate to shop in Aldi's or in Asda in Broadstairs, it is a real shame Margate cant take off

[Sniffle774]

Originally Posted by cosmo

A lot of the old seaside towns have gone that way.

Great Yarmouth is a right dump as well now. Full of oddballs, junkies and low lifes.

Lot of seasonal cash in hand work to be had

[Sniffle774]

My folks used to take my sister and I to Margate for summer hols in late 70s and early 80s. Used to say at the Butlins hotels. I went back a few years later and it seemed like a lot of resorts to be stuck in the past, stagnating and unsure of how to evolve itself.

[philkent]

I heard that Margate is going to re-open Dreamland again, plus their are plans to revitalise the Town. I hope it comes to something. I have fond memories of visiting Dreamland in the 80's. For my money though, the best Thanet town is Broadstairs.

[SJ_Mental]

Thanet is improving slowly but Margate is by far the worst place here.

[fmradiotuner1]

Is it worse than Clacton?

[cultureman]

From today's newspapers.

Margate is the high street blackspot of Britain, with more than one in four shops standing empty.

The Kent seaside town is closely foll- owed by Letchworth in Herts, and Wolverhampton, the British Property Federation said.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/city-ne...5875-22034658/

Margate and Ramsgate are total dumps. But they both have CT postcodes