Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Kevin,Charlie...........Better chance of Cable Car and things to happen with an East Kent Council....More Clout and influence.
Guest 648- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Thank you Mr Taylor .Yesterday I had a site meeting in London Road Kearsney to try and get a perch bar at the bus stop.Now the River Doctors surgery has moved to Lydden some people have to catch the bus to get there.In spite of my best efforts Health and Safety won the day .The pavement is too narrow .I will now have to try another tatic.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Nothing can happen without commercial money and if developers don't want to spend it on an in-town site you cannot make them....
Been nice knowing you :)
Alan Taylor etc. etc....
The wool has been pulled over our eyes for years, and this Council has refused things that others areas have taken up.............
However, now we have the net....social networking.....throw it all up, time and time again.....you get unsulted...personalised and so on......
The People Port Meetings in the Town Hall have shown how very unpopular the Harbour Board and Council are.....with their superior attitudes....as if the workers, people who invest in the town etc. etc. are nothing....
Keep the pressure up......and surely their skins cannot be that thick.....tell people outside of this Town.....other Councils and areas what a shocking business all of this is.................pressure...pressure....pressure...e-mail the MP......show the Newspapers the dump they have made Dover.....
Gateway to England..................and the UK...............
Because what do we want..........Something better than this
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Alan is spot on, my thread on the MFI site is evidence.
I often wonder what these people actually do to justify themselves
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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No wonder Dover suffers if everyone is constantly so negative about everything....
DDC were rather stuffed by Adsa showing interest and then dropping out when they got another option. Why can't people give things a chance? History is history and you can't do anything about it, people have changed and bad decisions may have been made in the past. This is an other opportunity and people should encourage this new idea....
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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MFI has been purchased and demolished just a few months ago, it's expecting a bit much to suddenly have a new development there !!
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Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Why do you think people are so cynical, we've heard it all before.
I'm sat looking at a waste site between Castle Street and Burlington House that is an eyesore. DDC were "stuffed" because they dithered and dallied, Asda still moved to Dover, they just got sick of the incompetent council
Guest 676- Registered: 1 Jul 2008
- Posts: 521
Alan Taylor, Charlie Norman, David Little et al
If you think you can do a better job than the current Councillors, then why dont you stand for election?
Million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Well said Stewart, I was going to post the same myself... if you can guarantee developers £M for Dover then I will vote for you
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e-mail the MP Charlie ,thats a laugh before he was elected could not talk to you enough now cant be bothered to answer on the forum a simple question as long as they have a pocket full of money they don't give a dam about anyone else, But when it comes to voting time thats when i get my own back as well as many more people I hope and when they have to get a job and live like the rest of us I am happy,they had the chance when they were in power to get everyone on there side,lie after lie and Charlie E with his new hospital for dover Biggest joke of the last 3 years he knew we weren't having one but could have told us straight in steed he lets us go on thinking we will have a new one with all services. I thought proser was bad when he got all are money and as never been seen since but at lest he said sorry.Not like this lieing bunch of toe rags. Sorry to rant but they make my blood boil
Stewart Dimmock.............
Dover District Council has a bad reputation far and wide.....read Paul aka Scottie's book..........Dover Past and Present.....
We are looking at our investment into paid Public Servants to get this Town on its feet.............they are in the job, and have put themselves forward as experts.................they are not and have not come up with the goods...whereas other Towns and Districts have flown ahead.....even in the good times we get bad times...............and we have a Cash Cow on our doorstep
Its not about guaranteeing developers for dover its being honest with the people and telling them the truth even if they don't like it we have had many developers in this town and DDC have buggered them about They leave and say sod you. as I'm now 65 its to late for me to stand but by god if i was younger i would and not go round kissing arse but tell it as it is at lest that way i could sleep at night.
Paul DDC were rather stuffed by Adsa showing interest and then dropping out,, Asda wanted to build a new building and put a facure around it DDC said no So asda pulled out thats what i mean by telling the truth so the people know who to blame.
Paul aka Scotchie post 26 his is an other opportunity and people should encourage this new idea.. We love the idea but wait till DDC start then you will see they could not agree wither to have tea or coffee
It is excellent to have all views aired......Prosser the Tosser....sorry, he became known as that...by so many....acted like a benign Gentleman...nodding dog at back of car...in the end.....did nothing really....had such a chance....
I, again, silly me....was so excited at the thought of the People's Port and was knobbled in the precinct by Nigel Collyer and Charlie E...with Neil Wiggins....I was encouraged because all the thoughts I had alone were echoed all round by the people of Dover in the Town Hall meetings.....So much money passes through and into this town and district....and for what?
you are so right Alan Taylor......we are treated like peasants....
If they know.....why encourage and treat us like shite?
It is truely bad here, and I love it so much...I do not know what the hell we can do......even going for a pint in a decent place...is a no no now.........
It is not being negative.....I think we are the positive ones, but can see nothing happening......even when we say yes to it............
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
you're certainly fired up today alan, we all share your frustration, we see other towns along the south coast reinventing themselves.
certinly there is some luck involved, folkestone have mr de haan, margate had the famous painter associated closely with the town, hence the success of the turner gallery.
having said all that listen to what the people of folkestone and margate say - mostly they want the town done up and stuff the arty poncey stuff.
east kent in general desperately need help from the government, no chance as we are seen as the stockbroker belt south east.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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"Dover District Council has a bad reputation far and wide.....read Paul aka Scottie's book..........Dover Past and Present....."
Most of this was post war clearance by the Dover Corporation in the 1950/60, so a long time ago. Dover never recovered in size after WW2 and with the pulling out of the military the town fell apart, pubs close down and churches demolished.
Bad decisions were made a long time ago which aren't DDCs fault and will take along time to undo.
So.... if there was a fresh new DCC and the past is the past, what would you want them to do and how would you fund it? What will you do to get the town to thrive and how do you get people to stop passing through the town on the way in and out the country?
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 697- Registered: 13 Apr 2010
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Completely agree, Howard. The reality is that the whole of East Kent (Dover, Shepway, Thanet) has been let down badly by successive governments who failed to realise that this part of the country is certainly no leafy commuter belt. If East Kent were "up North" we'd have seen millions of pounds of investment to boost the economy and create jobs.
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,706
FFS no wonder nothing ever happens with this sort of negativity and bile towards councillors
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