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CHAIRMAN’S INTRODUCTION
Robin Green writes:
It is important every so often to return to key words in your trust
deeds. I want to focus in this Update on the word “conservation”. The
conservation of our historic environment and the heritage assets within
it raise key issues about our values and the sustainability of our
communities. Conservation immediately raises issues about our
throwaway society. It is taken for granted in many walks of life that
objects, and even sometimes people, are disposable. To value our
historic assets is to stand counter to that kind of society.
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Latest News
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At its 2010 Annual General Meeting Mrs Una Stanley was elected as the new President of the Society. In her speech of acceptance Una spoke of the Society's achievements over nearly 50 years, and promised to uphold the Society's constitutional aims.
Robin Green was re elected as the Chairman, in his speech he emphasised how important it was for the Society to the linked with the New National Body, Civic Voice, in order to meet the challanges of National Planning Legislation and changes in local government.
Carol Burns continues as the Secretary and David Bridgen as the Treasurer. Alan Clarke is taking over the organisation of the Social Programme.
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Conservation & Planning
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The Deal Society executive committee has now adopted a new policy on Planning issues from 2009 onwards. The policy was adopted in the light of changes made by Dover District Council through the Local Development Framework. The Society's policy had not been fully updated since 1998 although there had been amendments made.
The abbreviations in the document are as follows:
DDC: Dover District Council
DTC: Deal Town Council
WPC: Walmer Parish Council.
This policy document will now form the framework for the Society's planning work.
Robin Green Chairman
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Conservation & Planning
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 The Society's sub committee has been active throughout 2008 taking up issues of concern to members and people in Deal. Throughout the summer we focussed on the future of the Astor Theatre insisting that it had to be professionally run and that the building was conserved for the future. We were delighted in the early autumn when Deal Town Council agreed to hand the management responsibility to the Deal Arts Management Group. We look forward to the reopening of the theatre in 2009.
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Conservation & Planning
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11th May 2008
PRESS RELEASE
The Deal Society has added its voice to the objections to the Minters Yard development.
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History
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 A packed audience in the Cleary Hall were privileged to be given a walk
through Deal from the 1920s to the 1940s thanks to one of our own
members, Christian Ball.
Starting with the ruins of Sandown Castle, which provided her as a
child with a delightful spot to sit down particularly on the way home
from picnics in Sandwich Bay, we were taken along Beach Street past the
Coastguards’ Station. Instead of the rows of cars parked along the
front that we see every day, instead boats would be pulled up all along
the road. At North Street there were houses on both sides of the road,
with the backs of those on the seaward side being right onto the beach.
Seagirt House, now long gone, had wonderful views and there was always
a hive of activity around the Boatman’s Rooms.
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Conservation & Planning
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by John Farago 06.06.07
Dover District Council is the Planning Authority for Deal and Walmer (as well as for all the rest of the area within its local government boundary).
Current Planning Policies are contained in the Dover District Local Plan (adopted 2002).
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History
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by Gertrude Nunns, a past Vice-President of the Society
The background to the formation of the Deal Protection Society (as it was then known) lay in a report in the East Kent Mercury of 4 January 1946 of a Town Council meeting at which the "redevelopment of a badly bombed area was foreshadowed". This area was defined as bounded by the sea on the east, the High Street on the west, King Street on the north and South Street on the south. Although a grant from the Exchequer might be obtained, it was understood that "indirectly they would have to pay for the improvements themselves". It was agreed to defer the subject for a few months.
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General
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If you have chosen to live in Deal, you will appreciate the charm of
this largely 17th and 18th century town. Deal is unique and The Deal
Society works on your behalf to help keep it that way.
Why We Exist:
The Deal Society, originally known as The Deal
Protection Society, supported by a galvanised population, helped to
thwart a partial destruction of the town which would have meant having
modern civic buildings in place of the largely unspoilt seaside town
you see today.
In 1947 and later during the 1960s many of Deal’s important oldest
buildings, none later than the Nelson period, and sections of the sea
front were to be demolished. During the late 1940s the excuse was “war
clearance”; in the 1960s it was “modernisation”. A large area of the
town was to be razed and replaced by tall, Soviet-style municipal
buildings totally out of keeping with their surroundings. The Deal
Protection Society, as we were then, with the help of well-known and
distinguished supporters, the local and national press, along with a
large number of Deal residents, were vociferous in their objections to
the unwarranted destruction of a large part of this delightful town.
Eventually those plans, and another for a link road which would have
demolished more of the town, were rejected and Deal was saved. The
furore concentrated minds wonderfully: buildings were listed and in the
late 1960s Middle Street was designated the first conservation area in
Kent.
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