Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
- Posts: 1,610
Sorry Roger, I thought I had. You or PF choose where to meet and what to clean then let the DTC office know so that posters and places at the hog roast can be arranged. Simples.
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
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
this all puts to bed the myth that the town and district councils fail to work together because of political differences.
not a single red councillor to be seen on this one so clearly it is about poor communication or individual egos.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
or havent been told synariao.thats due to bad comuncation or the blues are keeping it to themselfs for obiious reasons to show that they care and the reds dont.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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not in this case brian, the reds are conspicuous by their absence this time.
the blues and independents have joined together to create this fiasco.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
so its a brian rix farse then,
Guest 739- Registered: 16 Jan 2012
- Posts: 85
So just say me or Roger are unable to attend this event (and depending on certain outcomes to a situation I may not be) who will do all the decision making when people turn up. Or are you expecting us to do all the planning beforehand? Useful when we're not told about it - that would be another anti-PF coup. Also, on the experience of our last clean up is an hour and a half long enough? It took 20 minutes to collate names and divvy out the hi viz jackets.
Will this poster be put up round the town? What sort of response has there been so far? We did an individual mail drop to the houses in the area we wanted to clean and got a reasonable response but only because we shoved it under their noses,as it were.
Sorry if this all sounds negative but I want answers not cheap shots across the bow.
I think we are all guinea pigs in the middle of an experiment for which they have forgotten to set up a control group!
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
You're right there Jen - an hour and a half is only a token show, not a meaningful clean-up. I'd have thought that start at 10.00 and finish around 1m to 1.30.
It would take about an hour to clear some of the brambles and nettles from the Glen Grove
alleyway; I went for a walk round there and at the top of Glen Grove, turning left, is not too bad at all, some nettles an brambles could be cut back, the worst part was from the top of Glen Grove to Winchelsea - still passable, but could do with a cut back.
Roger
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,707
I would have thought that the start time is purely a suggestion if you feel longer is needed for the area you have chosen within your patch, then I am sure that you can set your own time. The key time is surely when the event in Pencester starts as that is when your volunteers can go get their free burger...
I am no more party to the organisation ofthis than you are other than I did get emailed by Ms Hubbard; though her original letter has never materialised - suspect it went to our chair...
Having said that I am organising people in my patch to litter pick the Cherry Tree Scrap Yard - which is not something the council contract cleaners can do as it is private land. I suspect having had a quick recce that 90 minutes will be sufficient if we can get 5 or 6 people, if we have enough volunteers there are other patches we can have a go at too. This time round we will not be cutting back the vegetation at Cherry Tree but it is something we will be talking to the land owner about for next year.
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While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Ideally brambles, nettles and other perennial weeds need to be sprayed with glyphosate about 2-3 weeks before the clear-up, otherwise cutting back just stimulates more active growth, especially in this rain/shine/rain weather pattern we presently have.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
Thanks Peter
Maybe we could get a grant for some of that ? A couple of gallons will do.
Roger
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
you would all so need a ticket for spraying,somthing to do with elf and safty.
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
- Posts: 1,136
The councillors here in Buckland are involved in this, and have put forward areas to be in the clean up, we will be meeting at Buckland community centre 11.30 and then on to Pencester afterwards.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
thought it had been too good to be true, today i noticed this in the alley between clarendon place and clarendon street.
Guest 739- Registered: 16 Jan 2012
- Posts: 85
The Priory Forum are going to have a go at tidying up Glen Grove as an hour and a half is nowhere near enough for the Clarendon Alleys. Especially looking at Howard's pictures. So if anyone is interested in helping out we're meeting at the bus shelter on the corner of Elms Vale and Folkestone Roads (also known as the horse trough) and once we've got our kit from the Council we'll be off tidying etc.
Once the Council have come back to me about the funding remainder from last year we can think about tackling the alleyways again.
I think we are all guinea pigs in the middle of an experiment for which they have forgotten to set up a control group!
