What if Herne Bay Pier were to be re-built?
The figures below were made through contacting piers in other areas direct:-
Visitors to piers around Britain
·Brighton Palace pier approx 3.7 million visitors a year
·Clacton pier approx 2 million visitors a year
·Eastbourne pier approx 2 million visitors a year
·Blackpool North pier approx 2 million visitors a year
·Blackpool Central pier approx 2 million visitors a year
·Blackpool South pier approx 2 million visitors a year
·Southport pier in 1998 was having admissions in the region of 140,000 a year. In 2006 it attracted approx 500,000 visitors a year!
·Southwold pier for the period Sept 05-Sept 06 was 507,000
·Southend pier approx 500,000 visitors a year
·Deal pier approx 664,741 visitors a year
·Clevedon pier approx 500,000 visitors a year
·Saltburn pier approx 200,000 visitors a year
·Swanage pier approx 200,000 visitors a year
·Deal Pier attracts well over 600,000 per annum bringing to the economy £15.6m.
"Build it and they will come"
(A quote from the movie:- Field of Dreams)
HELP US TO FUND THE REBUILDING OF
THE SECOND LONGEST PIER IN GREAT BRITAIN
THE HERNE BAY PIER TRUST IS ON ITS WAY!
The selection of trustees has taken place and will be announce very soon!
Thomas Telford
The original pier
Engineer
On Thursday November 8th 2007 at 7.00pm, the Executive of Canterbury City Council met at the Guildhall.
Number 13 on the agenda was a recommendation to pass the proposal to set up "The Herne Bay Pier Trust". It all went as planned.
We thought that we would have been up and running as a Trust sometime in March 2008 (the trustees have already been chosen)... but this is taking longer than we anticipated.
It still has to go back to the Council Executive and then through the legal process and on to the Charities Commission.
Please check here from time to time or see the local press to see how we are progressing!
Then the real work will start, to try to get funding from outside sources.
On the 16th of July 2007 the pier (as it is) was re-opened to the public after ten years of closure!!
The summer was successful without pier-jumping incidents, so we now have the pier open all year! You can now walk round the entire sports hall and fish from the designated places on the end!! .....
Great!! .... Bit by bit, we are getting there.
Herne Bay Pier attracting 500,000 visitors per annum at £26 per spend would be £13m!
That's £13m more to the local economy.
Even if visitors spent £10 each, thats still £5million per year!
What a money spinner!!
We are now starting to take pledges towards raising the funds for the rebuilding of the Pier.
If you would like to pledge a donation to the Pier, please phone on 01227 375717 or email us.
No monies or cheques accepted at this stage, until The Herne Bay Pier Trust is fully formed & the bank account is in place..... this will take a further few months.
