What has the EU funded in Thanet?
April 23, 2016 5:45 PM
By Thanet Lib Dems
By Thanet Lib Dems
Our local councils receive a large number of grants from the EU often for fairly hefty amounts of money. If we left the EU we would have to pay for that ourselves which could mean a substantial Council Tax increase.
Some of the projects that the EU has supported in Thanet
- £26m EU funding specifically for Thanet to KCC from 2000 to 2006
- A new electricity substation, providing electrical infrastructure to Thanet
- Sure Start Millmead, Dane Valley, Margate
- £161,000 for Ramsgate Harbour (Thanet Gazette)
- The Innovation Centre, Broadstairs
- Funding for Thanet Museums
- The Turner Centre, Margate
- Various Tourism Grants
- Through EU legislation and cooperation, Britain's beaches are now cleaner. (thanet.gov.uk). Thanet now boasts 7 blue flag beaches:
- Minnis Bay, Birchington
- West Beach, Westgate
- St Mildred's Bay, Westgate
- Botany Bay, Broadstairs
- Joss Bay, Broadstairs
- Stone Bay, Broadstairs
- Main Sands, Ramsgate
- Refurbishment of the historic arches, Military Road, Ramsgate
- Ramsgate Harbour Pontoon project
- EU funding was provided towards the Kent High-Speed Rail Network to improve Ashford and Ebbsfleet and connected stations. High-Speed trains from Ramsgate and Minster run on this line and now take 1hr 14mins to London.
- Delivering Margate's Creative Quarter
- Viking Bay Enhancement, Broadstairs
- Thanet's First University Campus, Broadstairs
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(Where our facts and figures came from)
