Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,321
#1
Notice on the Former "Fountain" (aka Cherry Tree) pub.
Haven't we got enough?
***For some reason I called it the Fountain, it's actually the Kingfisher!***
Decrepitude rules!!
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#2
Is there the least hint of 'localism' left in any of the wonders our present Government has pushed through?
A glance at the Business Plan for this new enterprise would tell you how much money is to be lost to the local economy:Shops,Pubs and household budgets.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
cannot see the logic here as there is a corals a bit further along and william hill have also put in for planning permission for the old shoe shop in pencester road.
Guest 730- Registered: 5 Nov 2011
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#4
I can't see the logic either, do we really need another betting shop? What a shame it can't remain a pub.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#5
So if the above two go through, Pencester and London Road, that will be two William Hills in town plus Corals
Has this town got that many gamblers?
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#6
Two very sad sights. The queues waiting for pubs and betting shops to open.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#7
there are 3 corals, 2 betfreds, 1 ladbrokes and 2 forthcoming william hills - overkill here.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#8
just a couple then.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#9
#7 Well that confirms it then, we are a town bursting with gamblers
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#10
maybe the new los vegas.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#11
There is obviously felt to be a good market for betting shops. They are clean, mess free shops, what's the problem ?
I don't use them at all, I can't remember the last time I placed a bet, but they are legitimate businesses and used by all sorts of people.
Roger
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#12
With a boom in betting shops it would seem Dover is not such a poor town as people would have you believe.
Audere est facere.
Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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#13
Research on gambling prevalence found, what many of us probably suspect, that:
"Area deprivation was significantly associated with frequency and volume of gambling, with those living in the most deprived areas gambling more often than those in less deprived areas".
"Availability and convenience are strongly associated with problem gambling".
"Those in managerial and professional occupations were least engaged in gambling and least at risk of problem gambling".
Dover: "World Class Town"?
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#14
I have to declare a small interest here as I enjoy the odd flutter.
On walking into the modern turf-accountants premises the bright lights, brightly coloured furniture and the on-message smiling staff may well all come together in an instant to give the first-time/casual visitor a good impression. There is much that can be learned from the hyper-market.
But, does the plethora of Names or the convenience of such outlets spell success?
Would you be heartened by as many Police stations or Brothels?
I doubt that a new venue is sought simply to cut down the inconvenient queuing along the pavements, or to quell the clamour of those in possession of a dead-cert with too few places to profit.
To have Vultures circling is one thing, but once they begin to alight upon your neighbourhood...
P.S.
Funny how the odd Sky-Dish in the wrong place can bring a certain colour of individual out in boils, but Betting Shops, the more the merrier. Odd indeed.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#15
whilst i don't object to more betting shops in general, we need to heed that gambling is a problem, and before we allow more maybe we should look at this as a bigger issue
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#16
betting shops survive because of the machines traditional betting on horse and dog racing brings in very little income.
as said in previous posts the more badly off people are the more likely to bet, buy scratchcards or play the lottery.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#17
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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#18
In Pencester Road William Hill's have indeed put in an application for the old shoe shop to become a betting shop but there is also an application in to turn the Corals into a Domino Pizza, so no additional gambling there.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
