howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
27 January 2010
23:1938986word has reached me via a mole that our watering holes will be available for normal functions in the next day or so.
congratulations to paul the fuhrer and nigel for making all this possible.
once they have completed their paperwork we can attend to ours.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
27 January 2010
23:4638989Well Howard it was either that or me chaining myself to the toilets .I might have only worn a hat to cover my modesty .
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
27 January 2010
23:5038990thanks for that info susan, i am trying hard not to visualise that, although i understand that a fellow councillor of yours will be of a different opinion.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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28 January 2010
00:3638994Were you a Suffragette then Sue?
Seriously, if true this is good news for locals and tourists alike. What we'll have to wait and find out is where the money will be clawed back from instead. Something somewhere is going to have to give... The toilet closures were probably just the first casualty at the beginning of a very difficult financial period for DDC.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
- Posts: 7,819
28 January 2010
08:5539000Yes this is good news..common sense prevails. It is also an acknowledgement to the weight of public opinion. I guess this is a temporary measure while a more solid solution is being sought.
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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28 January 2010
11:1439012Having been extreme in my views over the closure of the toilets, I'd like to say a word of thanks to Paul Watkins if this good news is true. All along, I have been advocating the reopening of the toilets whilst the wrangling over finances are sorted. If this has finally happened, then common sense has won the day, and a belated word of thanks is due; I rather like Cllr Andrew Richardson's comment in the Mercury today when he said that all the public wanted was for the Council to "behave like adults." How very true, and if that's started to happen, then thank you to Paul W for that......
The inquests can start later; in the meantime, I'm just glad that the public are no longer pawns in a game of Council chess.
True friends stab you in the front.
Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
- Posts: 556
28 January 2010
11:1539013Now DDC and DTC have about two months to sort out a permanent solution.
Phil West
If at first you don't succeed, use a BIGGER hammer!!
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
28 January 2010
18:0839025just wandering if theres going to be champainge and ordourves are being served up,to the bold and beatifull at the grade re opening.
Guest 670- Registered: 23 Apr 2008
- Posts: 573
28 January 2010
18:2139027Yes Brian, Nigel is declaring them open and will cut the ribbon, he will then make a speech about how caring the Tory controlled council is and how much they care about the disabled and elderly. He will then christen them, having consumed four pints of real ale prior to the ceremony.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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28 January 2010
19:3039032dave1,thats nice to know.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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- Posts: 62,352
29 January 2010
11:0639067having just waded through the councillor speak on the "united" thread, it appears i have been giving out wrong info and that the toilets are not reopening immediately.
maybe i have misread it?
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
- Posts: 1,266
29 January 2010
14:3539073Oh dear. A false dawn, townspeople still having a gun held to their head by their own council. Back to the drawing board..........
True friends stab you in the front.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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29 January 2010
18:3139089Have just heard a piece of information from a reliable source. Hot news tonight! Paul Watkins has stated to DTC that the toilets will be open at 9am in the morning
...!!!!
uncross your legs
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
29 January 2010
18:4339093That is good news,BUT they will not be geting a thank you from me,they should not have closed them in the first place,and again this will not save them it will still cost them alot of votes, And Mr Collor should still stand down from his ward.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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- Posts: 62,352
29 January 2010
19:1539101it was only a day ago i announced them to be open by today.
paul
i will believe it when i see it.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
- Posts: 3,391
29 January 2010
19:4739104At the town council meeting there was no mention of the toilets opening today/tomoz or anytime.
Theres a lot of detail to be sorted, once the District provide the full information.
but one person could change all this by opening the toilets whilst talks go on,,,,,,,,,
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
29 January 2010
19:5139106Yes they will be open tomorrow .I think the thought of me being chained to the toilets was too much to bare .Did i say bare .Jokes apart the DTC and DDC have communicated and as the motion said which all councillors voted on the toilets can now be reopened .
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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29 January 2010
20:2739109Sue
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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29 January 2010
21:5939118Yes the email came through late afternoon that the loo's would be reopened saturday morning at 9oclock so put the chains away sue for awhile
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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29 January 2010
22:0739119perhaps she should chain herself to Nigel,just a thought she could keep an eye on him then.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!