Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,542
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,542
I remember there being a plan to link this development down to Connaught Park. Did anything come of that?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
I use to run my boxing club from there and helped the army to train their boxers to. I run the Dover Boxing club for about ten years or more we had some very good young boxers still about today but to old to box.Mr Neil Rix was a great helper to me and the club.
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 438
These buildings on the Officers Mess site are living up to my expectations- ugly. There was an opportunity to build some beautiful exciting homes on this plot with its vista over the channel but this is the best they’ve been able to come up with!
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,878
I would not go so far as to say ugly but certainly boring and not at all different, they remind me of this....
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Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 346
As Arthur has already alluded, could have been some fantastic homes built here to improve Dover's housing offering. Such a waste.
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,068
Looks like they're going for a modish student 'village' look.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 438
Agreed, Dover Pilot. They remind me too of student halls of residence. But once again opinions of the PC ignored. An opportunity wasted.
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,818
Hope theyre well built,it can get really windy up there.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,542
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,542
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,082
I've said it before.
I'll say it again.
Each year in Dover District roughly 200 more people die than are born.
Exactly who is all this 'much needed' housing for? And what are they going to 'do'?
London Boroughs relocating claimants like Redbridge has done in Canterbury? Housing compartively cheap as chips and not commutable for most in employment.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
All these people relocating Bob .Using the High Speed Rail connection for work. .Get here then dash to Canterbury for shopping .Well that was the logic they sold us .Then they will whip round on the rapid speed bus service stopping here there everywhere .Could have used a Stage Coach Bus .
Who pays for all these wonderful ideas .?.
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 346
DDC built a shopping mall just when they started to become unpopular and are now building commuter homes just when everyone has stopped commuting. Genius.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,878
When you can work from home and/or buy a house in this area for the cost of a tiny studio flat in dirty old London, plus so easy to pop over to France for the day surely it is a no brainer.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,082
I am sure that the fantastic location will make it a very attractive offer.
To whom?
Persimmon? Taylor Woodrow? Barratt? (Not 'our' Leader of Council - he's a greengrocer).
Meanwhile I await the Ocean Village application from DHB on the DWDR.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
And you can sell a 2-bed semi with no off street parking in a nice village near Dover and for almost the same money buy a 4 bed detached with 2 bathrooms and a double garage in a nice town in mid-Wales, which is what my wife and I have just done. And no looking back. After 20 years in Dover (2001-21) and almost 40 in Canterbury (1962-2001) I wonder why we ever decided to live in Kent.
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
118: best wishes for your new start! We were staggered by the (low) prices in Herefordshire.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,878
We retired to north Suffolk where the property places were so much cheaper than this area. I only returned when my husband died because I could not persuade any of the family to move and the public transport to this area took forever, but I loved it up there.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
It’s the opposite for me Jan .The house prices where I lived in North Essex much higher than Dover I could never have moved back to be nearer my family .Cornwall the same .So River it is .