Local businesses are currently not very integrated in the community. We asked cultural and creative businesses what attractive qualities currently exists in Margate and what they think Margate lacks?
Margate’s attractive qualities?
- Clean beaches
- Infrastructure- life guards, road cleaners
- Sense of community
- Police station
- Post Office
- Railway station
- Road links
- Supportive local govt
- Bank
- Old town centre
- Musical history
- Cheap accommodation
Things Margate lacks?
- Super fast broadband
- Assigned space and support for small businesses
- Faster rail link
- International appeal
- Sustainable investment
- Vibrant economy
- Better facilities- accommodation, buses, childcare
- Unified marketing approach
- More visitor attractions
- Injections of cash to develop the public spaces
- Better wages and jobs
- Better educational links
- Business tax relief/ tax free periods.
Meeting in the middle: What of the listed items can be achieved in Margate?
- Mixed use venues that allow for projects and ideas to be incubated and nurtured and allows people to come together in a way the currently does not exist.
- An ‘Umbrella’ marketing approach that take the multi faceted aspects of Margate into account and one that attracts national and international tourists.
- Better links with institutions.
- Good quality active communication channels.
- Digital meeting points and Notice boards- there needs to be points of interaction with a strong level of quality control through a trusted intermediary e.g. Hidden Arts.
- Enthusiasm and positive messages that can improve the perception of Margate.
- Investing in the role of culture and tourism as persuasive means to attract new people, new businesses and bring that energy and excitement back to Margate.
- Encourage existing businesses to engage with and contribute to what is going on.
- Hard to employ people from the area as they are hard to find or seem to lack the necessary skills.
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