Housing scrap begins!
http://www.purbeckhousingaction.co.uk/forum/topic.aspx?t=83
(Purbeck District Council who are supposed to provide/enable affordable housing seem to be leading the fight against government plans to build some).
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
New Subject
If you want to raise a new topic, post your comment in this section — just click first on Comments below, then type in Post a comment (top right of the next window). Can you choose a title for your post, please? Sometimes it's hard to work out what a comment is about and what the subject is. A new heading will soon be set up, allowing others to see and add their own comments. It seems it's sometimes easier to click on 'Post anonymously' than to open an account in your name - you can always add your name to your message. We try to keep posts civilized.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Party time!
"Police are to increase weekend patrols of Burlington Chine in Swanage, Dorset, after reports of anti-social behaviour and criminal damage at night-time."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7523264.stm
Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 5:02 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7523264.stm
Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 5:02 PM
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Swanage and the South of France
What's the South of France got that Swanage hasn't?
Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 5:36 AM
Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 5:36 AM
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Swanage promotion?
Advertising uses many forms of communication to persuade people to buy particular goods and services. In Swanage itself, there is the Swanage Advertiser, Purbeck Gazette, Dorset Echo, local Radio and TV, the carnival programme, websites, flyers, inserts, posters... the list goes on.
But they are all designed to persuade people who are already in the area.
Who is advertising Swanage itself? and what forms of advertising are being used to attract people into the town?
Posted by The Wonderer to swanageview at 8:56 AM
But they are all designed to persuade people who are already in the area.
Who is advertising Swanage itself? and what forms of advertising are being used to attract people into the town?
Posted by The Wonderer to swanageview at 8:56 AM
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Dunshay Manor
Well, who'd a thought.
"Actress loses £2.3m estate claim"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7505724.stm
I only met Mary a couple of times, but she was fun!
Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 10:04 PM
"Actress loses £2.3m estate claim"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7505724.stm
I only met Mary a couple of times, but she was fun!
Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 10:04 PM
Friday, July 11, 2008
New Subject
If you want to raise a new topic, post your comment in this section — just click first on Comments (below any posts under this subject), then on Post a comment (bottom left of the next window). Can you choose a title for your post, please? Sometimes it's hard to work out what a comment is about and what the subject is. A new heading will soon be set up, allowing others to see and add their own comments. It seems it's sometimes easier to click on 'Post anonymously' than to open an account in your name - you can always add your name to your message. We try to keep posts civilized.
Tourism
What slice of the tourist market is Swanage actually aiming at?
Does it coincide with the people it actually attracts?
Does it coincide with what people think it should be?
Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 10:49 AM
Does it coincide with the people it actually attracts?
Does it coincide with what people think it should be?
Posted by Anonymous to swanageview at 10:49 AM
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Local Food, World Music
A new festival for Swanage is being planned - "Local Food, World Music" will take place on 5, 6, 7 June 2009. Further information, as it becomes known, will be available on www.swanagelife.com
Posted by steve darrington to swanageview at 4:53 AM
Posted by steve darrington to swanageview at 4:53 AM
Friday, June 27, 2008
Clavell Tower: Kimmeridge
Interesting story here about moving the Clavell Tower at Kimmeridge:
http://tinyurl.com/56hq5y
or
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=583&storycode=3116930&c=0
http://tinyurl.com/56hq5y
or
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=583&storycode=3116930&c=0
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Durlston clears lottert hurdle
Durlston Project Update: July 2008
Success!
Dorset County Council and a wide range of project partners are celebrating the news that the Heritage Lottery Fund has confirmed £3.1m of funding towards the £5.5m Durlston Project. Being successful with a Heritage Lottery bid of this scale and complexity is a major achievement, and the culmination of four years careful planning and hard work.
After a huge effort by Friends of Durlston, the Jurassic Coast Trust and the Project Team, the £2.4m ‘match – funding’ target is also looking attainable. This funding has come from a wide range of individual donations and fundraising initiatives as well as major business partnerships and significant contributions from charitable trusts and foundations. Despite the many successes, it is essential that we continue our fundraising efforts to ensure all the aspects of the Durlston Project are achieved.
A key element of the Project is the restoration of Durlston Castle; repairing the fabric of the building and replacing inappropriate 20th century additions. Access to and within the building will be greatly enhanced and exciting new displays will highlight the ever-changing face of Durlston. The present Park Centre will become a new Learning Centre for more formal education and family activities. This work will ensure that Durlston provides a world class facility for visitors to the Jurassic Coast and the newly designated Durlston National Nature Reserve.
New, high quality catering and retail facilities will also be developed, with greater opportunities for functions, special events and temporary exhibitions. Durlston’s importance as a major tourism asset will grow, with economic and social benefits for the local area and wider region.
There is still a large amount of preparatory work to finalise, including detailed technical design, contract tendering a wide range of project management requirements, so it is unlikely that work ‘on the ground’ will start before 2009 with completion expected by the end of 2010.
The good news from the Heritage Lottery fund comes on top of the recent opening of the Durlston National Nature Reserve – an accolade which highlights Dorset County Council’s continuing commitment to conserving the site’s rich natural heritage. The Civic Trust has also awarded Green Flag status to Durlston for the 3rd year in succession.
Now that we have been given the ‘green light’ there are even more opportunities to get involved in the Durlston Project. If you would like to help please speak to a Ranger at the Visitor Centre, visit www.durlston.co.uk or telephone 01929 424443.
Hamish Murray (Head Ranger)[posted by Mike Hadley]
Success!
Dorset County Council and a wide range of project partners are celebrating the news that the Heritage Lottery Fund has confirmed £3.1m of funding towards the £5.5m Durlston Project. Being successful with a Heritage Lottery bid of this scale and complexity is a major achievement, and the culmination of four years careful planning and hard work.
After a huge effort by Friends of Durlston, the Jurassic Coast Trust and the Project Team, the £2.4m ‘match – funding’ target is also looking attainable. This funding has come from a wide range of individual donations and fundraising initiatives as well as major business partnerships and significant contributions from charitable trusts and foundations. Despite the many successes, it is essential that we continue our fundraising efforts to ensure all the aspects of the Durlston Project are achieved.
A key element of the Project is the restoration of Durlston Castle; repairing the fabric of the building and replacing inappropriate 20th century additions. Access to and within the building will be greatly enhanced and exciting new displays will highlight the ever-changing face of Durlston. The present Park Centre will become a new Learning Centre for more formal education and family activities. This work will ensure that Durlston provides a world class facility for visitors to the Jurassic Coast and the newly designated Durlston National Nature Reserve.
New, high quality catering and retail facilities will also be developed, with greater opportunities for functions, special events and temporary exhibitions. Durlston’s importance as a major tourism asset will grow, with economic and social benefits for the local area and wider region.
There is still a large amount of preparatory work to finalise, including detailed technical design, contract tendering a wide range of project management requirements, so it is unlikely that work ‘on the ground’ will start before 2009 with completion expected by the end of 2010.
The good news from the Heritage Lottery fund comes on top of the recent opening of the Durlston National Nature Reserve – an accolade which highlights Dorset County Council’s continuing commitment to conserving the site’s rich natural heritage. The Civic Trust has also awarded Green Flag status to Durlston for the 3rd year in succession.
Now that we have been given the ‘green light’ there are even more opportunities to get involved in the Durlston Project. If you would like to help please speak to a Ranger at the Visitor Centre, visit www.durlston.co.uk or telephone 01929 424443.
Hamish Murray (Head Ranger)[posted by Mike Hadley]
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Swanage Life
Swanage Life
I am currently preparing a new website for Swanage called Swanage Life covering topics such as:
What’s On in Swanage, Special Offers from Shops, Restaurants, Hotels, Things To Do, Alternative Swanage, A Guide to Night Life, Local Services and Trades, Companies That Deliver Goods, Cleaners For Your Holiday Home, What’s Hot and What’s Not, Festivals, Concerts, Children’s Activities, Where To Stay, Where To Eat, Where To Drink, Where To Hire Disabled Equipment, Street Maps and Important Telephone Numbers, Who Makes The Best Coffee, Opinions and Personal Histories, Why People Live Here and much more!
OK Everybody! Here's a chance for you!
* Tell me what you think should be covered under 'much more'.
So why am I doing this? Well, the last Swanage Blues Festival brought in less money from local businesses than ever before, and I can't keep the festivals going without financial backing. So the idea is that this new website will make me some dosh and keep the festivals afloat. Who knows? if there's enough coming in, I might even be able to do more events!
I am willing to update the website on a daily basis, but I can't go round chasing for information, so it's up to you!
Steve Darrington
Email: s.darrington@btopenworld.com
Tel: 01929 422338
Post: Steve Darrington, c/o T I C, Shore Rd, Swanage, Dorset BH19 1LB
Posted by Steve Darrington to swanageview at 7:31 PM
I am currently preparing a new website for Swanage called Swanage Life covering topics such as:
What’s On in Swanage, Special Offers from Shops, Restaurants, Hotels, Things To Do, Alternative Swanage, A Guide to Night Life, Local Services and Trades, Companies That Deliver Goods, Cleaners For Your Holiday Home, What’s Hot and What’s Not, Festivals, Concerts, Children’s Activities, Where To Stay, Where To Eat, Where To Drink, Where To Hire Disabled Equipment, Street Maps and Important Telephone Numbers, Who Makes The Best Coffee, Opinions and Personal Histories, Why People Live Here and much more!
OK Everybody! Here's a chance for you!
* Tell me what you think should be covered under 'much more'.
So why am I doing this? Well, the last Swanage Blues Festival brought in less money from local businesses than ever before, and I can't keep the festivals going without financial backing. So the idea is that this new website will make me some dosh and keep the festivals afloat. Who knows? if there's enough coming in, I might even be able to do more events!
I am willing to update the website on a daily basis, but I can't go round chasing for information, so it's up to you!
Steve Darrington
Email: s.darrington@btopenworld.com
Tel: 01929 422338
Post: Steve Darrington, c/o T I C, Shore Rd, Swanage, Dorset BH19 1LB
Posted by Steve Darrington to swanageview at 7:31 PM
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Blyton Museum?
Can I ask you to post the following:
It may be common knowledge to locals, but I heard for the first time that the Council is proposing that the Tourist Information Office on Shore Road should be moved elsewhere (Townhall?) and that the premises should be converted into a money-making Museum of Enid Blyton. I realize that Enid has her partisans, but for me and most of my contemporaries, she is a creature of bourgeois nostalgia, a dated and rather pathetic cultural icon destined for the dustbin of sentimental literature. Why should Enid's sterile mementoes displace one of the few efficient tourist services we have in the best possible location for its purpose? The Information office in its present locale serves a multitude of functions. It is warm and welcoming, a center for lost children and possessions, a first-aid and emergency center, a housing bureau and valuable aid to those providing accommodation, a poster of tides and current events, a provider of maps and pamphlets and histories and Jurassic propaganda - I am sure the list could be extended. It is virtually certain that most of these useful functions would go abegging if the office were moved to the town hall in what is now a back street of the town, almost as inaccessible to cars as the beachfront.
The best possible alternative locale for a money-losing museum that I can imagine is the Mowlem, which is already an Enid Blyton Museum without knowing it, and has always been a bastion of contempt for tourism as its palsied trustees sleep the sleep of the self-righteous. Save the tourist office - say I!
Ian Lowson
It may be common knowledge to locals, but I heard for the first time that the Council is proposing that the Tourist Information Office on Shore Road should be moved elsewhere (Townhall?) and that the premises should be converted into a money-making Museum of Enid Blyton. I realize that Enid has her partisans, but for me and most of my contemporaries, she is a creature of bourgeois nostalgia, a dated and rather pathetic cultural icon destined for the dustbin of sentimental literature. Why should Enid's sterile mementoes displace one of the few efficient tourist services we have in the best possible location for its purpose? The Information office in its present locale serves a multitude of functions. It is warm and welcoming, a center for lost children and possessions, a first-aid and emergency center, a housing bureau and valuable aid to those providing accommodation, a poster of tides and current events, a provider of maps and pamphlets and histories and Jurassic propaganda - I am sure the list could be extended. It is virtually certain that most of these useful functions would go abegging if the office were moved to the town hall in what is now a back street of the town, almost as inaccessible to cars as the beachfront.
The best possible alternative locale for a money-losing museum that I can imagine is the Mowlem, which is already an Enid Blyton Museum without knowing it, and has always been a bastion of contempt for tourism as its palsied trustees sleep the sleep of the self-righteous. Save the tourist office - say I!
Ian Lowson
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