£100m plan to transform Canvey (From Echo)
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£100m plan to transform Canvey
8:00am Thursday 18th March 2010 in
PLANS for a £100million revamp of Canvey town centre have been unveiled.
The ambitious proposals include creating a tree-lined public pathway, scrapping the one-way system, bringing in more public spaces, building a huge supermarket and pedestrianising an area to cater for a market.
Council chiefs say the plans would greatly improve the town centre and bring business to the island.
The tree-lined pathway would link the junction with Knightswick Road and Vaagen Road with Canvey Lake.
The masterplan also proposes three new public spaces, which would be attractively landscaped and contain seating, and possibly sculptures and other public art.
There will be a civic square, at the junction of Furtherwick Road and High Street, a town square, connecting the shops with the proposed new school off Foksville Road, and a green square around the war memorials outside the Paddocks Community Centre, off Long Road.
The Paddocks would be refurbished, with a cafe installed on the ground floor.
The scheme also proposes pedestrianising Furtherwick Road and the High Street at certain times of the week, to allow a regular market and other public events. The one-way system, which takes vehicles through Foksville Road, Knightswick Road, and Elder Tree Road, would be scrapped.
Steve Rogers, Castle Point’s head of regeneration, said: “There are plans for a combination of attractive shops, flats and other amenities at locations around the town centre, which are either available to be built on at the moment, or could become available in the not-too-distant future.
“They would have to meet a strict design criteria, following traditional Dutch, art deco or modernist design styles seen elsewhere on the island.
“The council will also set higher design standards, for future planning applications where developers want to rebuild any of the existing buildings.”
Potential locations for new blocks of flats and shops include the junction of Furtherwick Road and Long Road, in the Haystack pub’s car park, and the current Sainsbury’s supermarket store, in the Knightswick shopping centre, which could be demolished.
The council estimates the overall cost of the scheme would be more than £100million, which it hopes will be mostly covered by private investment. This could come from private firms expected to invest in the public improvements, in exchange for being allowed to build and sell the shops and flats.
Comments(22)
richomack360
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8:48am Thu 18 Mar 10
Oh hang on a sec.....
LeighlynnG
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8:56am Thu 18 Mar 10
essexlad08
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9:05am Thu 18 Mar 10
Doughnut
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9:25am Thu 18 Mar 10
Valentino
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9:38am Thu 18 Mar 10
Once that is done and ideally more attractive shops have taken up residence inside the Centre, then the rest of the Town can be looked at.
Marshwalker
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11:10am Thu 18 Mar 10
essexlad08 wrote:The impossible we do at once! Miracles take longer!!!
Tidy up the rest of the island first! Don't waste the money where its not needed.
Neil Davidson
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11:33am Thu 18 Mar 10
Valentino wrote:£100 million investment on Canvey and still people moan. That is madness.
The Town Centre doesn't need half of the crap proposed here. It could do with some sprucing up, better public toilets, some more places to sit etc. but the key objective must be to demolish the prison style Knightswick Centre and re-build it as a modern, two-floored mall like a mini version of Basildon's EastGate Centre with the Supermarket at one end. Once that is done and ideally more attractive shops have taken up residence inside the Centre, then the rest of the Town can be looked at.
sea wall sid
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12:49pm Thu 18 Mar 10
Neil Davidson wrote:I don't think they are moaning because they don't want investment and improvement, it's because we have been here once....Twice....Thr
Valentino wrote: The Town Centre doesn't need half of the crap proposed here. It could do with some sprucing up, better public toilets, some more places to sit etc. but the key objective must be to demolish the prison style Knightswick Centre and re-build it as a modern, two-floored mall like a mini version of Basildon's EastGate Centre with the Supermarket at one end. Once that is done and ideally more attractive shops have taken up residence inside the Centre, then the rest of the Town can be looked at.£100 million investment on Canvey and still people moan. That is madness.
ee times....no hang on a minute.....many times before, all the ideas for Canvey are good ideas if they improve public spaces and facilities but we don't want better shops and spaces in exchange for having to give up more land for flats, the local infrastructure, just cannot take any more houses,flats,bungalo
ws, all the previous mentioned dwellings mean more people and more cars on and off our 2 roads, the real priority is first, a 3rd road, then improvements to the local area then if the infrastructure can cope maybe talk of new dwellings can follow.
It's not that Islanders are ungrateful or not wanting change for the better, it's just a case of being offered the double edged sword yet again....and being that we are wise to it now we do ask first at what price!!!
shortybells
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4:51pm Thu 18 Mar 10
Perhaps we should put a few electricity generating windmills up on the Hadleigh Downs so that the drone would cancel out the whining.
shortybells
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4:52pm Thu 18 Mar 10
Perhaps we should put a few electricity generating windmills up on the Hadleigh Downs so that the drone would cancel out the whining.
Valentino
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5:29pm Thu 18 Mar 10
Perhaps those on the mainland who look down on Canvey don't mind wasting money on trees and public "art" because they feel their towns are perfect enough.
soul man
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5:42pm Thu 18 Mar 10
evilc
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6:34pm Thu 18 Mar 10
daveyboy25
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10:48pm Thu 18 Mar 10
borncanveybird
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8:55am Fri 19 Mar 10
responsible1
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4:44pm Fri 19 Mar 10
Hugh.Janus
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6:10pm Fri 19 Mar 10
The Island is in desperate need for a revamp and a lot of people have taken their time to visit the regeneration shop in Knightswick to put their opinions, mostly positive, one only has to see all the post-it notes and suggestions plastering the walls.
The main culprit here on the Island is the Manchester Pension Fund who own and run the Knightswick Centre, which is now half empty - why - because they are such a greedy bunch that they have increased the rents to such a dgeree that it is almost impossible for the shop to make a decent profit, unless its a multinational.
Get rid of Knightswick and build something majority of the Islanders want, decent shops and a decent enviroment.
Not all this negative c**p.
Miss D Meaner
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9:17pm Fri 19 Mar 10
soul man
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2:37pm Sat 20 Mar 10
Hugh.Janus wrote:with a name like yours, hugh janus, im sure a huge amount comes out of it, the shops are closing due to the rent & rates, so pray tell me how would a new lot of shops be viably practical cost wise, and all the other plans, its a scam to earn big bucks for the planners, nobody else
No wonder this counrty is going downhill, when a goodly number of people making comments here cannot say one thing positive about anything, moan, moan, moan, thats all they can do. What a negative bunch.
The Island is in desperate need for a revamp and a lot of people have taken their time to visit the regeneration shop in Knightswick to put their opinions, mostly positive, one only has to see all the post-it notes and suggestions plastering the walls.
The main culprit here on the Island is the Manchester Pension Fund who own and run the Knightswick Centre, which is now half empty - why - because they are such a greedy bunch that they have increased the rents to such a dgeree that it is almost impossible for the shop to make a decent profit, unless its a multinational.
Get rid of Knightswick and build something majority of the Islanders want, decent shops and a decent enviroment.
Not all this negative c**p.
Hugh.Janus
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5:10pm Sat 20 Mar 10
Could not keep the discussion on the relative merits of a revamp of the town centre, but has to start casting aspersions on the name of the person posting, therby making it personal, Shame on you!
If you had actually read and understood what was said in the posting, you would not have been stupid enough to make the comments you did. Lack of understanding is no answer for ignorance.
shortybells
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8:26am Sun 21 Mar 10
Hugh.Janus wrote:I'm afraid "Soul-Man" is typical of the Bog-dwellers. Big mouth, little brain and a propensity to gob off about things they don't understand.
Did not take long for another Negtive post from someone with little or no imagination and from someone who purports to come from Canvey, Shame on you!
Could not keep the discussion on the relative merits of a revamp of the town centre, but has to start casting aspersions on the name of the person posting, therby making it personal, Shame on you!
If you had actually read and understood what was said in the posting, you would not have been stupid enough to make the comments you did. Lack of understanding is no answer for ignorance.
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That's why the Canvey Island Idiots Party is so successful, tell the boggies they are victims and they believe it.
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You pointed out that the Manchester Pension Fund who own Knightswick have raised the rents pricing people out of business. Yet "soul man" ignores that part probably because, in his small brain, he believes Knightswick is owned by the council and it's the conservative run council who are too blame.
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As I said some very stupid people on the Bog.
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