howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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taken from the ddc planning site, no going back now.
Outline application of the erection of 9 dwellings, construction of vehicular access and
associated car parking (existing buildings to be demolished)
Ambulance Depot, Winchelsea Road, Dover, CT17 9TT
Guest 743- Registered: 28 Feb 2012
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they'll most likely move it to sweden or something stupid like the fire stations which we dont seem to need they will most likey shut it and give us a robin reliant with a blue light to attend to dover deal and surrounding areas ;)
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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There will be a "Make-Ready" ambulance post at the Winchelsea site, so this area of Dover will still keep it's ambulance and it will be a cleaner, better equipped, better serviced ambulance and crew.
There will also be one at Whitfield, so the Dover area will now have two stations. I visited the Make-Ready Ambulance station at Ashford as part of DDCs Scrutiny Committee and everyone attending was impressed with all aspects of it.
Dover and the people who need an ambulance, will be much better off with this system.
Roger
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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We could always drag a handrawn one from the museum, all hands to the pumps what! Also making a positive carbon footprint for Dover
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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two things here.
a) the building is supposed to be have been demolished by now and new flats built.
b) i thought all ambulances had to start from a central point in ashford with some sort of minor stopping point at whitfield.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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The system certainly worked yesterday with an immediate response. An old gentleman collapsed in the Bookies next door to the Charlton Centre. My wife Chris used her First Aid training to help him until the ambulance arrived, which was in less than five minutes. Unfortunately, despite working on him for a lengthy period, they were unable to save him and he passed away.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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funny that howard i saw an abulance there friday morning.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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There are two satellite ambulance stations for Dover - one is at the old station at Winchelsea and the other is at Whitfield.
You are right Howard that ambulances have to be collected from Ashford first.
Roger
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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collected from ashford? what do the staff feel?
it appears ambulances are more parked around the district rather than winchelsea the past year
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It was not long ago I was talking to some ambulances crews in Margate,they are not happy about all this and I can understand why,They now have to get across to Ashford in their on time without pay adding over a hour to their working day,when they get there they have to park up and pay for that then walk to where their ambulance is and the same at night.Some have been driving ambulances for years and love the work they do,but if they had know then what they do now ,they would not have done it.They did not sigh on for all the ex unpay hours. even two said they would have to hand in their notice because of their family life and the ex cost of going to work is making it hard for them.Most of us when working had to tavel to work at our own cost,but we did know about that before taking that job they did not know and had no say in the matter.
I know what I am about to say is not the same but it is on the same lines,when my family moved their factorys from London to the Midlands,they wanted to keep the same staff,so to do that they paid all the cost of the workers to move up there they also help pay for them to set up home,and twenty years on the same workers are there today. My brother worked for the GPO in DOVER they asked him to move to a new job and they would pay for that move and help in seting up a new home.He done that about 3 times with the GPO picking up the bill.I think that the ambulances crews should have had some help as well.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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blimey we probably agree!
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Where there is life there is hope.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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where theres hope theres a pope.
