Dreamland
MARGATE
Save Dream land Update October 2012
DESIGNS ON DREAMLAND
We are delighted to announce the recent appointment of multi-disciplinary designer
Wayne Hemingway MBE and the award-winning HemingwayDesign team
(www.hemingwaydesign.co.uk) to bring forward the overall design and branding for
the forthcoming revival of Dreamland .
From their origins selling second hand clothes on Camden and Kensington
Markets in the early 1980s, Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway built the legendary Red
or Dead into a fashion design label to receive global acclaim winning the British
Fashion Council' s Streetstyle Designer of the Year Award for three consecutive years.
In 1999 the Hemingways launched HemingwayDesign moving into urban design and
regeneration which led to one of the UK' s quirkiest seaside regenerations projects,
The Boscombe Overstrand in Bournemouth, winning Best Regeneration Scheme at the
LGC Awards in 2010.
HemingwayDesign's impressive track record spanning urban design,
regeneration, fashion, seaside heritage, vintage culture and festival is a perfect match
to The Dreamland Trust's vision for the world' s first amusement park of thrilling
historic rides and a good fit for Margate's creative and vintage vibe. We are really
excited about Hemingway's appointment. Wayne and Gerardine have created some
truly great places, from the transformation of Boscombe seafront to the regeneration
of a rundown housing estate in Norfolk. Wayne, Gerardine and the team have a
genuine passion for the British seaside and for the Dreamland Margate project.
PROJECT UP-DATE
The current Dreamland site owner, Margate Town Centre Regeneration Company Ltd,
has lodged its anticipated appeal against Thanet District Council's Compulsory
Purchase Order, which was approved by the Secretary of State last August. We are
currently awaiting a date for the hearing. In the meantime the council continues to
have access to the site to carry out safeguarding works under Urgent Works Notices to
prevent further deterioration to the site' s listed, heritage assets after years of neglect -
the next of which is urgent work to the historic Compton cinema organ.
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