Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
"The revelation comes alongside a half a million pound cash injection, announced today, to help Dover cope with the changes brought by Brexit. The £500,000 sum is from a new transition fund and will be made to Dover District Council. It will help deliver traffic management projects such as Keep Dover Clear – allowing residents and businesses to get around over the next few weeks and months."
Hm. Now although Whitfield will be grade-separated from the A2, I haven't seen mention made of using the A2 as a queuing area, particularly for outbound trucks, so perhaps that's the job of the A256, aided and abetted by the £0.5m.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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Button, £1/2 million is bugger all in highway terms.
Should just about cover traffic lights for the Duke of York's roundabout to give Deal/Dover traffic any chance of crossing it?
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,546
£500000 is being available made to DDC? That'll be money down the drain then!
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Captain Haddock wrote:Button, £1/2 million is bugger all in highway terms.
Should just about cover traffic lights for the Duke of York's roundabout to give Deal/Dover traffic any chance of crossing it?
Si! I was thinking of funding for a bit of temporary manpower to back up the A256 lights and generally wave their arms around.
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,546
Which piece of land is it? Next to B&Q alongside the A2 or between B&Q and the Leisure Centre?
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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The former. Hence delay in final route of
mad Dover Fast Bus Thingy.
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,546
Thanks.
So lorries could be sent all the way down the A20 past the docks, up Jubilee Way to park, the around the B&Q roundabout back down the A2 to the docks?
Looks foolproof and problem-free
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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I've bought one of these for each of our councillors for Christmas.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
is that the cost of the finger buffet at the white cliffs palace,.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Just one of many 4 year old chickens that will be coming home to roost over the next few months.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I’m completely confused re this latest project.When I look at Whitfield I think of the opportunities wasted .There is no Master Plan or if there is one it’s hidden on a shelf.Mccarthy Glenn could have sat nicely there.What do we have tin sheds .The Leisure Centre Maybe good inside but it stands in a bleak field .There is nothing to soften the landscape .Now another eyesore is to be allowed .Yes DDC will get a payoff but as stated previously will it be used wisely .This crazy Rapid bus scheme .Some of these consultants are sitting pretty.St James not what I expected.
it beggars belief sometimes.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Does this go through DDC planning? I'd be (relatively) interested to learn the proposed holding capacity (ie truck parking spaces) compared with that of, say, Motis, Stop 24 and Sevington.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Button wrote:Does this go through DDC planning? I'd be (relatively) interested to learn the proposed holding capacity (ie truck parking spaces) compared with that of, say, Motis, Stop 24 and Sevington.
I don't think so, Button. Statutory powers were established on 24 September to bypass normal planning constraints. That was certainly the case up at Sevington.
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 439
Residents in St Martin’s Road Guston received a letter from the Department of Transport on October 27 informing them that a site near them was being considered for an Inland Border Freight facility under an SDO (Special Development Order) which can speed up the process. It took further correspondence with the DfT to obtain a site map. The facility has the capacity for 1200 vehicles. This is not an unused industrial site - it is currently used as farm land. Residents and the Parish Council have been seeking information but requests have largely been ignored. Despite repeated emails from residents out MP has so far not responded to their legitimate enquiries. This is the latest in a series of proposals that this small community has fought, remember the proposal to build a prison on the Burgoyne Heights site? Exploratory bore hole drilling in the centre of the village? Numerous solar parks (Guston now has one small site). DDC should not underestimate the strength of feeling concerning this latest plan. The residents of Guston will fight this vigorously . If allowed to proceed Dover will be gridlocked. Getting through the Jubilee Way roundabout will be a nightmare. If you wish to view a site map please look on Guston Parish Council website.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Oo!
http://www.gustonpc.kentparishes.gov.uk. I guess gridlock depends on the site's trucker popularity vs its truck turnover. No detail of structures though. Still, this Brexit business must be great for people with shares in tarmac or block paving.
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Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 439
This will be a border control and customs facility so popularity won’t be a factor. Neither will there be a choice to use it or not.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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The plan, as I've pointed out yonks ago, is for all to see on Citycourt webpage.
Apparently there's a large model of all this complete with the new development of the old swimming pool site and the cable car, on view in Snargate Street, though not viewable by women and you have to roll up your trouser leg.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
is it open to the public, or do we have to join. just asking for a friend
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,546
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