Author: High Street Deal
Amandas Mount, Laura Evers-Johns & Fiona Punter of the Goodwin Sands SOS Campaign team today handed in their Stop the Dredge petition of 12,000 signatures to No. 10 Downing Street!…
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has received further information relating to the proposed dredging of the Goodwin Sands,provided in response to points raised in the initial consultation. A 42 day public consultation on the further information is due to start 6 October 2016 and end on 16 November 2016. Make your views known!!
Deal has won silver gilt in the Britain in Bloom finals anounced on 14th October in the coastal town over 12k population.
To get to the final, Deal was the winner of the ‘coastal town between 12,001 – 25,000’ category. The local business community won the Judges Award! Well done us!!
Residents of Deal and other interested parties are urged to come to a meeting at the Bohemian on 28th April at 7pm to form an action group preventing Dover Harbour Board from dredging the Goodwin Sands. A treasure-house of antiquity and history, this important site must be protected at all costs.
This post is from 2016, Pat and Jill went on to do the challenge again in 2017 to Monte Carlo. In 2017 Jill did the challenge for a third time to Barcelona…
High Street Deal had the pleasure of showing The Eden Project’s Creative Catalyst Richard Good around our little town yesterday. And very lovely it looked too!
Feel strongly that Deal needs a cinema? You’re not alone! Help protect one of Deal’s most iconic buildings, the Regent AND enjoy the cinema Deal deserves by joining the Facebook Group Reopen the Regent.
The Sandown Castle Community Garden Group have been busy clearing the patch of ground by Sandown Castle and planting hundreds of bulbs and cyclamen. English Heritage who own the land, gave permission for the group to tend the area and the Council cleared it in early January.
Poems and wool feature large in the Deal WW1 commemorations! From woollen poppies adorning poems at Deal Railway station, a poetry trail in the conservation area, a stunning wreath in the window of the Norman Wisdom Centre and garden and window displays elsewhere there is plenty to spot on your strolls around town.
Deal’s motto, ‘Befriend the stranger’ was definitely in evidence today when Deal welcomed Brandon Lewis MP to town to present the Telegraph High Street of the Year certificate to the Mayor of Deal, Marlene Burnham.