Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,591
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,926
Yet more money wasted on consultants. Meanwhile I have just read that parking in Pencester has changed meaning there is even less in Dover, so much for encouraging people to use the town.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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How I Wrote Elastic Man- Registered: 5 Dec 2020
- Posts: 106
I thought my colleagues and I revitalised Dover when we built St James's?
Dover - more regenerations than Dr. Who
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,827
Like so many councils,experts in wasting money.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,094
What if the money (the getting of it, the re-distribution of it, the kudos and the kickbacks from the getting and the re-distribution of it) is the plan?
Only if you see public projects in this way do their predictable failures as projects make sense.
See 'Fastrack' for the most recent local example.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,345
'Local authorities will also get funding with it, distributed from the government much like the previous Conservative administration’s‘Levelling Up’ cash was.
Buckland & St Radigunds in Dover will receive up to £20 million for regeneration under the scheme.'
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/how-depressing-kent-high-streets-could-be-transformed-with-330695/"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,591
I saw that money and wondered if I'd could get my house in Buckland Village renovated out of it.
To be only Buckland and St Radigunds is quite a small part of town to be getting money. I expect £20 not £20M will come our way.
https://moderngov.dover.gov.uk/documents/s62573/DDC%20Ward%20Map%202019.pdfCaptain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,345
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,099
I'm confused; are Buckland and St Rads to get high streets then (sans vaping shops and bookies but presumably avec nail bars and hairdressers)?
(Not my real name.)
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,591
I think the £20M is nothing to do with the DDC "plan" in the original post.
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 350
The year is 2098 and the Kent Area Higher Council have just released exciting plans to try and revitalise the town of Dover with 2 Billion digital Amazon credits. Plans include turning the St James retail ruins into a biosphere dome and the old Fastrack tarmac which was once used for vehicles that used wheels into a hover cable car drone pathway for autonomous robot workers living in the Whitfield wastelands to get to the aqua and space interchange port.
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