Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,083
#118 Best wishes for relocation. FWIW we were very taken with Ellesmere while on the Llangollen - apart from lack of railway station.
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
#122, thanks Bob, nice to see you at The Hatton Flight the other week by the way.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,926
Seems house buying quite a few sell very quick
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Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
- Posts: 541
I wonder if that was one of the contractors that damaged it, thermal expansion, or maybe because its been very windy? Whatever it was, I wouldn't want to live facing the worse weather that Dover gets! I don't know if the "block look" is supposed to look like something, a castle maybe?
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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With so many MOD places around the country just decaying
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Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 438
I think you’ll find that these are the new builds!
Don’t have any confidence that the barracks site on the other side of the road will produce any aesthetically pleasing housing - but of course I was told that it was all a matter of ‘personal taste’ and that the housing constructed on the Officers Mess site had been well received! By whom?
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,068
Am I the only one who finds it entirely appropriate that plans for the Officers Mess site were developed by a mess of Officers?
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Guest 4443- Registered: 19 Aug 2021
- Posts: 6
The houses on the officers mess site, Connaught barracks are awful. These are not the design that we were promised at all. Residents were told properties would be designed to enhance the village and also sensitively blend in with the history of the area and Dover Castle, creating a St Margaret’s Bay image. What we got is completely the opposite properties look stark, over £400k for 2 bed property that local families cannot afford as we are appealing to people from London to buy them. So disappointing for local families.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,075
I think that may be down to the rise in the cost of building them sir.
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 438
Design which is sensitive to the environment and locality does not have to be dictated by money, but it does require imagination and creativity. Sadly lacking in this awful site.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Our council has only paid lip service to the concept of affordable housing for years. I became committed to the Farthingloe cause because of the utter BS that groper Charlie and his council buddies were propagating at the time. Maxton and Fathingloe have had a temporary reprieve thanks to the Supreme Court but the threat still remains. And £300k of taxpayers money has been flushed down the toilet to benefit absentee non-resident speculators.
Sadly, I fear you won't be so lucky at Guston but I wish you well.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Surely has to be political suicide for Elphicke
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