In which DHB ...
- Captain Haddock
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18 November 2020 21:00366306..... build a swimming pool out of recycled shipping containers.
See DDC planning application 20/1220.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - Button
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18 November 2020 21:43366308...and temporary motel according to the heritage statement https://publicaccess.dover.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=QILYCJFZI8500.(Not my real name.) - Captain Haddock
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18 November 2020 22:52366316The quicker they start random drug testing at DHB the better.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 19 November 2020 19:13366335If you can see past the adverts & other crap...
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/shipping-in-a-pool-bar-hotel-and-restaurant-at-marina-development-237753/ - 19 November 2020 22:27366337'Welcome to Dover where you can stay in a shipping container and feel like a migrant'
- Button
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20 November 2020 07:17366339I suppose it is actually a clever idea if you want to avoid too much by way of construction and groundworks. Come to think of it, it's the perfect (and very probably world-beating) way to provide Brexit office space at the eleventh hour.(Not my real name.) - 21 November 2020 22:54366372There's actually a very good hotel in Waterloo, London, made from shipping containers, and it seems to be popular. On Lower Marsh Street, if anyone is up that way. Swimming pool of any type would be excellent.Button likes this
- Button
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22 November 2020 08:23366378DFL wrote:There's actually a very good hotel in Waterloo, London, made from shipping containers, and it seems to be popular. On Lower Marsh Street, if anyone is up that way.
Thanks for that, DFL, I'd never heard of it before: https://www.stow-away.co.uk.(Not my real name.) - Weird Granny Slater
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22 November 2020 08:55366380'In the heart of London's cultural district'. A claim that once had a certain credibility to it, but that's now lost its context.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus - Jan Higgins
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22 November 2020 13:56366382On DIY shows I have seen these old shipping containers transformed into homes and they looked very good, it was only their shape that could possibly give away their original use.Bob Whysman likes this-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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------------------------------------------------------------------- - 23 November 2020 01:08366389I actually think DHB have got this right. The harbour is always changing, and have to change use here and there, so permenant structures can be a bit of a liability. When you look at Folkestone, which is the "competition". The Harbour Arm thing, is very cool .......for now.
What DHB are doing is going for things that are less "kiss me quick" or total BS culture stuff (that high street in Folkestone is pretty..... but useless tatt). THis idea with the containers could be great as it gives people somewhere to go, and something to do, and taps into the Channel Swim thing i'd imagine.
I'm all for it, in case you didn't notice!!!Bob Whysman likes this - 23 November 2020 11:13366401It would be great to have a swimming pool -
A lot of people would use this facility.....to have an open air pool/lido would be popular too. - Bob Whysman
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23 November 2020 12:04366402Seems to be working here Jan.
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/15480279.container-village-set-to-extend-its-stay-for-longer/Jan Higgins likes thisDo nothing and nothing happens. - Bob Whysman
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23 November 2020 13:40366405DFL wrote:I actually think DHB have got this right. The harbour is always changing, and have to change use here and there, so permenant structures can be a bit of a liability. When you look at Folkestone, which is the "competition". The Harbour Arm thing, is very cool .......for now.
What DHB are doing is going for things that are less "kiss me quick" or total BS culture stuff (that high street in Folkestone is pretty..... but useless tatt). THis idea with the containers could be great as it gives people somewhere to go, and something to do, and taps into the Channel Swim thing i'd imagine.
I'm all for it, in case you didn't notice!!!
The old high street in Folkestone was an interesting place to browse on the way back from the East Cliff Sands when I was a youngster (a little while ago). Especially the joke shop where itching powder, caps for your guns and other things that appealed to us at the time could be bought.
Rowlands rock shop was always a place where you could stand and watch the Folkestone rock and other sweet treats being made, sadly not there any more. It was a street full of character and always bustling with locals and holidaymakers perusing the local offerings.
As for being known as the Creative Quarter now begs the question as to when will the other three quarters be added to complete the obliteration of it’s past attraction?
The area has always had it’s fair share of ‘tatt’ for sale but the prices reflected the quality way back then, in the early 50’s, unlike some of today’s overpriced items.Do nothing and nothing happens. - Button
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23 November 2020 14:42366409Bob Whysman wrote:The old high street in Folkestone was an interesting place to browse on the way back from the East Cliff Sands when I was a youngster (a little while ago). Especially the joke shop where itching powder, caps for your guns and other things that appealed to us at the time could be bought.
The area has always had it’s fair share of ‘tatt’ for sale but the prices reflected the quality way back then, in the early 50’s, unlike some of today’s overpriced items.
You just can't get a quality whoopee cushion nowadays. Mind you, the shopping restrictions don't help (apart, maybe, from where stink bombs are concerned).
(Not my real name.) - 23 November 2020 19:16366410Bob Whysman wrote:Seems to be working here Jan.
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/15480279.container-village-set-to-extend-its-stay-for-longer/
"One of the business units in the Cobbler's Thumb studios made headlines for the wrong reasons earlier this month when £1,000 of crystal meth was seized by police ahead of Pride."
- 23 November 2020 21:24366412DFL wrote:I actually think DHB have got this right. The harbour is always changing, and have to change use here and there, so permenant structures can be a bit of a liability. When you look at Folkestone, which is the "competition". The Harbour Arm thing, is very cool .......for now.
What DHB are doing is going for things that are less "kiss me quick" or total BS culture stuff (that high street in Folkestone is pretty..... but useless tatt). THis idea with the containers could be great as it gives people somewhere to go, and something to do, and taps into the Channel Swim thing i'd imagine.
I'm all for it, in case you didn't notice!!!
Settling for something that might be better than Folkestone is irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that once again just like De Bradelei Wharf we are being sold a dead duck by DHB.
We could have had the Designer Outlet Centre, we could have had the plush restaurants and bars that DWDR promised but as usual we settle for the inferior.
We settled for a polyclinic rather than a hospital. We settled for that waste of space called St James and we settled on letting a gift to the town from Banksy being painted over.
This is Dover.Guest 3706 likes this - Reginald Barrington
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23 November 2020 23:17366414A lot of 'we' in that statement, i don't recall being consulted, and when did they promise plush restaurants and bars?Button likes thisArte et Marte - 24 November 2020 08:04366416Reginald Barrington wrote:A lot of 'we' in that statement, i don't recall being consulted, and when did they promise plush restaurants and bars?
OK. Maybe they never actually used the word 'plush' but that's splitting hairs wouldn't you say?
http://www.doverport.co.uk/dwdr - Button
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24 November 2020 08:30366417ray hutstone wrote:OK. Maybe they never actually used the word 'plush' but that's splitting hairs wouldn't you say?
http://www.doverport.co.uk/dwdr
I think the key phrase here is 'to attract' (rather than 'we'll provide').Jan Higgins likes this(Not my real name.)
