Another Multi-Million Pound Boost for Dover's World Class future.
- 11 December 2008 09:0410803from DDC****
ANOTHER MULTI MILLION POUND BOOST
FOR DOVER DISTRICT'S WORLD-CLASS FUTURE
Another multi million pound boost for the district's world-class future is being celebrated today following news of a further £2.6m from Government over the next two years. This additional investment, announced by the Department of Communities and Local Government, follows the Council's successful Growth Point bid this summer.
Dover District Council submitted the bid last year, working with a range of partners including the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA), English Partnerships, Kent County Council, Dover Harbour Board and Dover Pride.
Growth Points are a Government initiative to provide support to local communities who wish to pursue large scale and sustainable growth. The successful bid followed extensive work with a range of partners and enabled the Council to access special national funds to help with planning and delivering new developments.
Dover District Council is receiving an allocation of £1m for 2009/10 and £1.6m for 2010/11 to help it to make a real and early difference in the planned large-scale regeneration for Dover.
Housing Minister Margaret Beckett said: "In these difficult economic times we must not lose sight of the long-term need to build more homes ... This money is targeted at those local authorities with the most ambitious growth plans. As well as helping to build the new homes we need, it will ensure we have the support and infrastructure in place so that these homes become part of the existing community, not a burden on their resources."
Cllr Paul Watkins, Leader of Dover District Council said:
"It is exceptional that I can again inform residents and businesses of new investment coming into the district; particularly during the difficult times that so many are having to currently endure. This is a significant funding announcement for the delivery of growth coming on the back of the recent Sea Change funding. A range of developments that on their own are important, together will provide a transformational regeneration programme.
"This funding helps support the delivery of this programme and follows successful partnership engagement across a whole range of national agencies and partners who are sitting up and matching their positive words with hard cash. Growth Point status is recognizing Dover as a national priority and is helping to provide the working finance to deliver regeneration. This is a major announcement in supporting sustainable growth and a world-class future for the district."
- ends -email: dover7@msn.com - 11 December 2008 10:0610806Housing in - Jobs out = chaos+misery
World Class Future- "my *rse" as Jim Royle would say.Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter) - 11 December 2008 17:1110827MAy I follow that with a derisory f*rt - in character, of course.
- Brian Dixon
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11 December 2008 17:4010830seeing is beliveing. - 11 December 2008 19:3410835We are a miserable bunch, aren't we?!
- 11 December 2008 20:4110842looking at the pic again, paul appears to be standing on the platform at dover priory station.
could it be that he is trying to escape while he still can?
nice to see any money coming in to our area though. - Brian Dixon
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11 December 2008 22:3310847you may be right there howard. - Ross Miller
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11 December 2008 22:5110848money coming in - good
but nowhere in that announcement does it say what it is to be spent on...."Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi - Brian Dixon
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11 December 2008 23:0610849dover castle springs to mind. - 12 December 2008 07:5010859EEEEEEEEEk!
- 12 December 2008 07:5710864Ross the clue is in the top quote. Yes its from the Housing Minister herself Margaret Beckett, who paid us a visit recently in the flesh to do Question TIme down at our Cruise Terminal. The government are keen to see recession proof building work push ahead and also keen to see lots more housing. Dover is earmarked for much more housing as we know.
Howard yes I took that picture of Paul at the announcement of the 'High Speed Rail comes to Dover' and yes it was taken on platform at Dover Priory station. Its a few years back now.email: dover7@msn.com - 12 December 2008 13:1110885Come on everybody! Lets be positive and embrace this good news, money coming in, now from where I'm standing thats a good thing. A Successful bid, which will no doubt help to kick start the regeneration programme for Dover.
- 12 December 2008 13:4210891When are we going to see this regeneration. It all reminds me of the old Ken Dodd song (sad aren't I) Promises just empty promises .
- 12 December 2008 14:4610895I am still wondering how a supermarket, a shakey cable car and housing estates constitute a 'World Class Future"?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 - 12 December 2008 16:4210897Doddy also recorded "Tears"................
- 12 December 2008 16:4610898You are as sad as me Bern.
- 12 December 2008 20:1010904on the positive side the new javelin/bullet train done a run from ashford to london today in next to no time.
there will be 29 of them this time next year, all running around east kent. - 13 December 2008 08:0610915Well said Colette and Howard.
The futures bright, the future's ours - if we grab it and not keep on about the negative side.
We all know there's aspects of Dover that need working on, but we also know that there's people working on regeneration for the Town that will transform it - Rome wasn't built in a Day and nor will the (re)building of Dover.
Embrace the future and let's work on the present too.
Roger - 13 December 2008 12:1910925It is important to be positive and seize the day - as we have said on here only recently, despite people being obviously into their own miserable agendas!! The only way forward is to create opportunities from adversity. But it is hard to keep the mood up when shops and businesses are looking shaky and people are talking about what appear to be foolish schemes including cable cars.........But absolutely, Roger - embrace the future and seize the day, create opportunities and plough on!!!
- 13 December 2008 20:5210933without wishing to repetitive, i sincerely believe that the high speed link will be the saviour of dover.
we have two posters on here that travel to london to work every day.
there are many more people in the big city that would love to live by the sea, and have money in their pocket from flogging a london house and buying one here.
once that journey time is cut, then people will start to do their calculations and think about the journey times, the travelling costs and their quality of life.
let us not forget that most people in london spend around 2 hours or more a day travelling to their place of work.
