Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I don't think a share of £4m will pay the consultancy fees !!!
A funicular railway perhaps as that is less affected by the weather, but a cable car isn't good for the area as space is limited + if it were to pass from the Castle to the Heights there are a hell of a load of landowners to object from people infringing on their property..... Gibraltar for example is up the side of empty space.
Been nice knowing you :)
Perhaps you are right and it's unfair to carp about the cable car idea - I do have serious doubts, but as Howard says, we will be the only ones with the new and different attraction, gratis. Dover needs and deserves a boost - it's a great place but a bit neglected, so everything we can get is a bonus!!! I like the idea of the little railway though -they are always popular, and practical too. And fewer people have phobias about rail than about heights....I won't be going on the cable car even if I was paid!!!!! Heights and me - not a good combo!
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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As the figures from quite a few 'studies' already show that far too many people already think of Dover only in terms of a day trip to the castle the danger of a cable car link just meaning the town turning into a coach park is fairly obvious. Tourists already know where the castle is, what we need is something more to keep them in the town and not just another way of getting them out of it.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Them's my thoughts!!!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the cable car has to go to and from the castle(plus a stop off or two).
i do not see it as taking people away from town.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Scotchie your idea about a funicular railway is maybe the only way that we will get some 'fun' back into Dover
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Whatever happened to the grant I wonder?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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as far as i can remember a new visitor centre at the castleone and the seafront but willing to be corrected by anyone with a better memory.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Seachange contributed towards (not sure of the exact mix of Seachange/EH for the below):
Dover Castle Keep revamp - DONE
Dover Castle Tunnels revamp - DONE
Dover Castle new visitor centre - DONE
Promenade work - DONE
Cable-car feasibility - DONE
Bleriot memorial revamp - DONE
All done then !
Been nice knowing you :)
Jan Higgins
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Thanks Paul. David must be pleased it didn't go to waste.
Roger
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Nothing for your beloved Town Centre then Roger?
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Pleased to have it acknowledged that I love Dover.
It was never going to go on the Town Centre and no discussion on where it was to be spent, just that we were getting it and this is where it's going. There was some speculation from some local people (on here) as to where it should have been spent (and I spoke up at the time until I foud out that there was no discussion to be made).
Roger
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Looking sceptically at Paul's list #29 -
- three are mostly closed for the winter, would the money have gone there if that was known beforehand?
- the cable car feasability study is just that, a study, and has it been/will it be published?
- the Bleriot memorial looked good for the centenary, but will it be neglected from now on as it was before?
- but the seafront does look good if a little sterile, apart from the sites of the demolished and derelict public loos, the one thing tourists inevitably want, not to mention locals.
Maybe Roger's post above on lack of discussion gets to the heart of numerous threads running at the moment.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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It was the only time I know of Ray, that no discussion took place. We were getting the money and that was that and it was to be spent on specifics.
Roger
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Democracy in action, obviously.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Democracy Peter, doesn't seem to be all it's cracked up to be.
You can never please all of the people all of the time, as you know Peter; the (Government) money was welcome and it did make a good difference - to the Seafront and the Castle (which as we know, now closes during the week).
Roger
Keith Sansum1
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Roger
Who was it that made the decision not to have any discussion? and why did they feel only there view was right?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the government decided where the money was to be spent.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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With no imput from its same party colleagues in Dover?
strange.
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