- Sector
- Leisure and hospitality
- Project type
- Refurbishment
- Services provided
- Design
- Year completed
- 2018
- Client
- Dreamland
- Products used
- Elements® XL Seat & Bench Plate Ends
Following a major redevelopment in 2017 Dreamland has become a popular attraction in the seaside town of Margate, Kent. As well as vintage-themed rides and traditional fairground favourites such as a big wheel, waltzers and dodgems, Dreamland offers a programme of music at the new main stage, with a capacity of 15,000 for major events, all set within well-planted landscaped grounds. Public seating provision within the Dreamland site therefore needed to satisfy its varied uses and be movable between different areas, depending on which events are taking place.
Furnitubes designed and supplied 250 linear metres of timber-topped seating platforms to various lengths of concrete blocks, all based around common module sizes and in straight segments at lengths that could be arranged radially to give the impression of curved seating, but without the expense of making individually dimensioned platforms for each seat. The seating platforms and accompanying front panels comprise iroko timber hardwood slats securely fastened to galvanised steel frames, themselves discretely fitted to the concrete blocks beneath.
Elements XL benches were the ideal choice for Dreamland, being deep enough to be stable without fixing down (and also allowing sitting on from both sides) and heavy enough to not be readily moved by the public. Plate end support versions were chosen as this allowed a stencil form of the Dreamland logo to be laser cut for brand reinforcement. The plates were supplied in Corten steel, chemically weathered and sealed to prevent oxidation wash-off onto the paving and staining on clothes.







