howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#1
A planning application has come in to build 20 apartments with 14 parking spaces on the former play area in North Military Road opposite the former Kingdom hall. For further details application 19/00287 refers.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,261
#2
Seems a good plan to me, beats it turn in into tent city again.
Also a nice little earner for somebody.
Arte et Marte
Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
- Posts: 454
#3
Slight problem...14 car spaces and 20 apartments.. I not to sure about their Maths. Where they going park? I thought all new planning applications are meant to provide enough parking. Also with the new application for the Western Heights there will be an big increase in traffic. That corner is a nightmare.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#4
16 car parking spaces less than planning guidelines and unless things have changed recently all spaces are taken on both sides of the road by commuters who then disappear for the rest of the day.
At least the Godden Family Trust have not added bicycle spaces to their application.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#5
AFAIK, and I've spent a lot of time trying to track them down, the planning 'guidelines' relating to parking spaces are a folk myth which have been passed down from one council to another with nobody actually knowing where they came from or what they are based on. Seriously.
It's like the idiot notices telling you not to use mobile phones at petrol stations. No-one has ever ignited fuel fumes with a mobile phone. Use of you starter motor is much more likely to cause an explosion.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
- Posts: 454
#6
Ok no planning guidelines but 21 appartments and only 16 parking spaces. Do the maths. I am sure you and me can work it out. Not the best place to build appartments. They could build houses with drives but who would stand in the way of a lot of profit on a small piece of land.
Arte et Marte