FREE PARKING from Dover District Council

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• Guest 640

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  5 December 2011     17:13141025
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  FREE PARKING FROM DOVER DISTRICT COUNCIL
  
  As a special boost for communities at this time of the year, and looking forward to the range of celebrations in a very special new year, Dover District Council is offering free parking on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 December in all DDC owned car parks across the district. This offer does not include on-street Pay & Display areas.
  
  This may not apply to certain car parks managed by DDC but owned by others as these businesses may wish for the usual turnover of vehicles for trading reasons. However, Sainsbury's in Deal has already stated that they will also be offering free parking on these two days. Car parks not forming part of the scheme, road markings such as double yellow lines and on-street parking areas will be enforced as usual.
  
  

  

  
  Cllr Nigel Collor, DDC Cabinet Member for Access and Property Management said:
  "We are offering our communities a weekend of free parking in our car parks as we look forward to an exciting new year, when we will see a range of celebrations, including the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the Olympic Games in London, with the Olympic Torch in Dover on 18 July and in Deal, Sandwich and Sholden the following day.
  
  "In these difficult economic times, DDC is looking at its finances, like all businesses, but is offering free parking in certain areas as a one-off goodwill gesture. I would ask traders to join in the spirit of this offer by parking where they usually do and let potential customers use Town Centre car parks, and some traders may like to tie this in with their own promotions. We look forward to continuing to work together with all partners as we continue to drive forward for a happy and successful new year."
  
  
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• Guest 653

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  5 December 2011     17:17141029
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  Let's hope that people haven't done all their shopping by then and still need to come into Dover.
  
  Thank you DDC.
  
  
  
  
  Roger
• Guest 640

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  5 December 2011     17:21141032
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  It should be hugely beneficial though Roger, people are in M&S buying turkeys and so on up until the last minute. Ive lived through the food queues there and lived to tell the tale!!lol It should give a boost to the traders in central Dover..and also further afield.
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• Guest 653

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  5 December 2011     17:24141034
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  Hope so Paul.
  
  
  
  Roger
• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  5 December 2011     17:42141047
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  Perhaps the little hitler who ticketed my bluebadged car on Saturday might take a well earned day off. I parked with a very slightly out of date blue badge, and was actually in the post office posting my repeat request when I was ticketed. I wonder did she think I was experiencing a miracle cure and would suddenly, in those few days, become non-disabled? I did tell her, very nicely, that I had been unable to get in to the post office until then to post it (and the blue badge people have very helpfully made it impossible to do this online.....) and had not suddenyl become non-disabled. Her advice was to challenge it. I haven't bothered - we all know what the outcome would be. It is paid and done with and I wouldn't dignify it with a plea. But there must be a bit of difference between a blue badge slightly out of date and someone refusing to pay parking charges for no good reason - it wasn't even a car parking in a disabled bay that didn't need to. Moan over.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  5 December 2011     17:50141053
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  take up thy bed and walk bern.
  
  unfortunately parking services are entirely about revenue and not facilitating movement of traffic or even safety.
  
  our local bus drivers would be happy to confirm, very few days when they can they cover their published route throughout.
• Guest 699

  • Registered: 3 Jun 2010
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  5 December 2011     18:42141067
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  a lot of people want to do christmas shopping in one go , getting 10 - 15 presents and dover is not the place to find this amount of gifts , so guess this weekend avoid the crowds of bluewater and lakeside etc and pick your parking spot in empty dover
• Guest 651

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  5 December 2011     18:43141068
  #8      
  I'd appeal. quite a lot are cancelled and this would certainly be a good enough reason....
  Been nice knowing you :)
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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  5 December 2011     20:23141086
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  this dose not worry me i dont drive a car,but rely on public transport [buss] to get me from a 2 b.
• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  5 December 2011     20:54141092
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  #8, thanks Paul but I don't want to! It would only irritate me when they turned it down! And I have paid it now. Annoyingly the online payment service was "not working" when I went on to pay...........I had to phone them and wait endlessly on the "hold" music before an operator was available. It is also irritating that the blue badge scheme cannot be done online - there must be many people who would find that easier than traipsing to the post office (and getting ticketed...). And there are times, for me, when writing is a little painful so using a keyboard would be easier. It is a boon at work.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  5 December 2011     21:14141094
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  that seems a long standing problem with online and phone payments at ddc, i know many a time that i tried and found that after going through all the card details, security details etc the transaction failed.
  
  a couple of years back a friend of mine got a parking fine here and after trying many times she decided to drive from margate to whitfield to pay rather than getting the fine doubled.
  
  all rather embarrasing as she is a thanet councillor and claims that they do not have the same problem.
• Guest 660

  • Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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  5 December 2011     22:00141097
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  You know a Thanet Cllr Howard you do move in high places!
  If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  5 December 2011     22:36141099
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  sorry john i assumed that as she was female that you knew her.
• Alan Taylor

  • Location: Dover
  6 December 2011     08:19141113
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  Bern, I have suggested in the past that most cars that have disabled drivers, wardens were to look more closely at the tax disk it says disabled on it and you only get that kind of disk if you are disabled then there would be no need for the blue badge any more
• Guest 698

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  6 December 2011     08:46141119
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  Unfortunately, Alan, the blue badge scheme was a European imposition. Remember the old orange ones we had before?
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• Guest 671

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  6 December 2011     10:25141133
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  Bern.
  I hate traffic wardens with the same passion as others, having received several tickets of my own, even one from an ex miner friend of mine (was a friend).
  However, you are told to apply for renewal of blue badge, 6 weeks prior to expiry date, so as to not fall into the trap of parking with outdated B.B. So I would doubt if an appeal would work even if you tried.
  
  Free Parking is a good encouragement for all shoppers and should be offered more often.
  "My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
• Guest 656

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  6 December 2011     12:20141164
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  Well its good news that we can park in Dover free over the busy weekend before Christmas and I for one will make good use of it
  
  Bern, a few years back I parked my car in the car park with my tax disc one day overdue. I was in fact going to the post office just a few minutes away to get a new one and low and behold I had a parking fine ticket, I was gone for 7 minutes and had paid my parking fee.
  
  I went straight to the council office with said new tax disc but they weren't having any of it.
• Guest 715

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  6 December 2011     14:36141189
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  How on earth can a parking fine be issued for a vehicle excise licence offence?
  Audere est facere.
• Guest 698

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  6 December 2011     14:49141191
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  But beware- sometimes in the past the free parking has included on-street pay and display bays. This year it doesn't so be careful to use car parks and remember you will still have to buy a ticket on Castle St, Russell St and Pencester Rd.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  6 December 2011     16:52141212
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  free parking has always been freely available up here regardless of yellow lines or obstructions.
  
  our local bus has not once today been able to get up malvern road into clarendon place.
  
  parking services are very aware of the problem but prefer to do their revenue gathering in the town centre.

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