Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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Available from Ropers in Deal High St.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Thank you if it is still there next week I will buy it.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I am not saying they are but are they?could they already taking sands from the Goodwin at night so no one knows it is going on? looks like a lot of sand stacked up at the WESTERN end of the port
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I find it difficult to believe they would do anything like that until they got the official go ahead.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Just maybe they have and not saying and what has happen to Mr Wiggins now? unlike
him not to post or just maybe he also has been told to say nothing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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As far as I am aware all announcements on behalf of DHB have to be approved at the very top before going public.
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I can comment freely in a personal capacity Howard.
No one has told me to say nothing Mr Vic. Earlier in this thread and in the media I laid out what I thought and also explained how a non-approval of the license by the MMO impacts what the Port management can deliver for and in Dover. Some questioned my honesty in saying what I said and others chose not to believe what I said. Some of the comments flew in the face of common sense whilst trying to sound like common sense and I didn't have anything additional that I wanted to add to the conversation because I don't think that it is helpful to question the honesty of people's views, especially when there exists a clear inconsistency in the way that applications to the MMO over the sands are protested or not depending on the organisation that has made the application.
That said, the piles that you see on the old hoverport pad are NOT from the Goodwins. No dredging can or will take place unless a license is granted. That material is suitable aggregate that has been sourced, sorted and graded, from local, low carbon impact, construction and demolition sites. The port has, from the start of planning the DWDR project, made, and continues to make, every effort to source as much material as possible from environmentally low impact local sources with short transport cycles.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I am glad to hear all that, I am going down there a lot now good to see it all being done,I am still in support of what is being done,apart from taking the sand from the Goodwin.And that will never have my support.If I stand again at the next G/Election some of the points I will make will be about the new build.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Neil
Other than the Goodwin Sands where would "environmentally low impact local sources with short transport cycles" originate from?
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Button- Location: Dover
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The office block in Townwall Street previously known as Burlington House.
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Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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Yes Button, that is one of them. There have also been other demolitions in the local area which have produced some suitable material which is being used as well. Exactly where all the existing material is from I don't honestly know. I do know that none of the stuff currently piled up is from the Goodwins and that the project aims to source as much material as possible from environmentally low impact local sources with short transport cycles (that are not the Goodwins).
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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Neil have Board thought of approaching the HCA for the demolition products of Connaught Barracks?
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Maybe some is from the recent dredging within the harbour.
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Button- Location: Dover
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I think that's been silt and mud to date, rather than sand.
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Paul Watkins wrote:Neil have Board thought of approaching the HCA for the demolition products of Connaught Barracks?
Have DHB or DDC actually thought anything through? As usual these 'critical' infrastructure schemes planned years in advance seem to be based on short sighted assumptions.
How about knocking down the DDC offices and using that?
Jack of Hearts
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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how about knocking down the whole town and harbour and starting again with a long outlook.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Jack Heart wrote:Have DHB or DDC actually thought anything through? As usual these 'critical' infrastructure schemes planned years in advance seem to be based on short sighted assumptions.
The problem is they think about things for so long that by the time everything is decided it is already out of fashion and out dated.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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We must not let this one go, keep on about it keeping it
in the headlines or they will win.
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Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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Hi Paul, with reference to yours #254, yes and the engineers are currently assessing the material.