well after hearing every ones stuff today, ..... the area has great history, great architecture, good art scene, nice landscape (beach) , and people proud of their home, but not allot of jobs. SL was, as Neil is going to say, a great holiday destination and could easily be again. It hasn't been ruined, unlike other coastal towns, by amusement arcades, ferry terminals, excessive amounts of retirement homes or big industry. What would help is more tourists, maybe not for the annual family summer break but for the weekend or even the day(better access, didn't quite get how long it takes to get from London on a summer weekend day, but know its a shit drive for me). So a well designed gardens to benefit more of the local people, visitors to the hotel, and visitors to the beach and all the lovely art galleries, posh delis and trendy cafe`s under the colonnades and the revamped mercatoria district, will help in the general regeneration of SL. Fifteen years ago you wouldn't want to live in whitstable, now its packed every weekend and only because it escaped the standard coastal development i mentioned before. We have got a bit of history but not the wealth of architecture. 1830s and 1930s.
Well that's what i think.
So there.
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