howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Could this be a little bit of NIMBYism.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Took these earlier, you can't even see the car wash unless you look closely.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Some members of the public will always be unhappy. But I do not think it looks out of place all looks nice and clean unlike some of them in and around the town .So it should stay.
Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
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I think that this is an attractive looking modern business and a vast improvement on the derelict site that preceded it.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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According to Gary the manager, the DTIZ developers have also objected on traffic grounds.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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How long does it take to wash a car? Six cars per hour? Coming from DTIZ developers that's cheeky! I could say worse.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I think the developers will want to sell a car wash franchise in their own car park, like T*sco and CoOp.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 1224- Registered: 9 Mar 2014
- Posts: 100
A win, win business for the area. Clean cars for the locals and jobs for those hard working displaced persons from Calais.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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CMW are no strangers to controversy, now they have cordoned off land that KCC say does not belong to them.
http://www.dover-express.co.uk/Car-wash-provide-proof-ownership/story-23198860-detail/story.htmlGuest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Local opinion has it that the land in question actually belongs to Castle Hill House.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I seem to remember that the owners of Castle Hill House were one of the main objectors to the car wash.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Just been down to have a look and it is a very small parcel of land in question.
Not even sealed off.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Where the ancient urinal used to be, I believe.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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Urinal possibly over road?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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You can just see the Gents only in the middle of the rd .I would use that after rolling out of the White horse
And the Fox inn on the other side of the rd now the exit to the car park great times.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Drove past yesterday and the fence has been removed.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 1416- Registered: 20 Nov 2014
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http://www.dover-express.co.uk/Car-wash-backs-land-dispute-council/story-24570434-detail/story.html
Been following this story for a while, there's another update on this land-snatching saga in today's DE. The carwash brigade seems to have backed off removing the railings, but they are still claiming that the land is theirs and they've removed the railings "just to be pleasant". Hmmm... is it just me or does anybody else find this all rather fishy?
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I couldn't understand why they felt the need to cordon it off in the first place, maybe they just like being in the headlines?
They do say that any publicity is good publicity.
