Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,932
terrible when another large company is able to do this
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
#1220, Local competition is not a valid ground for an objection to an application for a premises license under the Licensing Act 2003. Either your information is duff or someone at the council has taken a bung. I can’t see that it could be the latter because a) B&M’s lawyers would sniff that out and b) all our local councillors and officers are fine upstanding men and women.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Both Tesco and B/M are doing well at this time both B/m are to stay open.some times there is a lot of rubbish put out by members on this forum, you should be calking Dover up not keep trying to bring it down.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,881
I have to agree with Vic, there is definitely a lot of unnecessary rubbish posted to this group.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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To be fair all that was spoken about is B and M
and is it right for other big companies to object to them.
Having B and M in the town has to be better than an empty building
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Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
My information came from B&M staff when I commented that their Canterbury store sold alcohol. It might have been in the planning condition rather than a licensing thing, I suppose.
Lew Finnis
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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lets hope the staff got it wrong
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
They need to sort out the parking at St James as people are getting there early morning and spending the day on the beach, add to that people who work in town using it there are very few spaces left for shoppers or cinema goers.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,122
howard mcsweeney1 wrote:They need to sort out the parking at St James
What's to sort out Howard? Everyone moans about the lack of parking and DDC's parking strategy 'killing the High Street' and here we have private enterprise dropping 440 FREE parking spaces in the middle of town and you are moaning that it is attracting the wrong sort of parkers! One minute the problem is DDC charging for parking - now the problem is St James doing the opposite. Do make your mind(s) up!
(Or is parking slightly more complicated an issue than we first though, which I and Proff Schoup have been suggesting for some time?)
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Easy for you to say Bob you don't run a business there, when did I say that DDC were wrong to charge for parking?
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I go in there most mornings and yes it is filling up there with none shoppers, we do need the shops there and they are good ones the parking in there is for the shoppers and that is all, so there should be payment if you park in there and not using the shops, so a charge for parking in there and if you use a shop you can hand in your parking ticket and get half the cost back.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
I agree with Vic. Stupid entrenched arguments on both sides - DDC are right, free parking campaigners are right - blah, blah, blah.
De Bradelie wharf operated a parking refund system for years if you bought from one of the outlets. Can it really be beyond the wit of man in this day and age to do the same for St.James?
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 347
I suspect this is why 99% of these type of shopping developments offering free parking are built out of town!
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,546
Are there less units under offer now? Any of the others known?
https://www.stjamesdover.co.uk/the-schemeKeith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,932
out of town is fine
but it will kill town centres
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Grand opening today from 11 am.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,258
Best set off now if anyone is attending:
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
that map is a bit out of date, the static traffic is back to courtwood interchange, has been for most of the day.
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,258
Was accurate at 9.30 when it was posted Brian, I won't accept responsibility for later changes
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