howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,599
#2
Where will Dover get 54200 jobs from?
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,261
#3
That must be wrong, 54200?
Arte et Marte
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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#4
That's what it says, but how that figure is calculate, god only knows.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#5
I assume the 54,000 refers to the whole DDC area rather than just Dover but that figure does seem rather high. Maybe there is some new major employer moving into the district that we have not been told about.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#6
I can see about 10.000 jobs but some of them will go when all the building work has been done but not
54000 unless they are going to pick up all the rubbish along the roads and path ways, I think they have put the dot in the wrong place and added a 0 it should read 5.400.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#7
I suspect that must be a misprint, even major employers are not as labour reliant as in the past.
I forget how many jobs DHB said would be created by the new Western docks development but it still wouldn't make much of a dent in those numbers quoted.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#8
People commute.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#9
The report says that jobs will come here and there will not be enough houses to cover it despite all the planned building.
Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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#10
Peter Garstin wrote:People commute.
54,000 people on a bus replacement service every morning, that'll be a sight to behold!
I suspect the figures are for the district if they are correct, including Sandwich Discovery Centre, Betteshanger etc.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#11
This is the result of the Ponzi Scheme known as the New Homes Bonus.
A council is allowed to keep ALL of the council tax on new homes for the first SIX years which keeps council tax low for the local residents.
Unfortunately at the end of the six years the council has to build even more new homes to keep the 100% of the council tax on the new NEW HOMES to keep the council tax low for all the residents PLUS the council tax payers in the previous load of new homes and so on ad infinitum!
Eventually there is nothing to be seen but homes and I know it means we all end up living in some God awful suburbia but who cares as long as we keep the council tax down?
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#12
Well I care.
Karlos- Location: Dover
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#13
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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#14
I thought the whole point of the environmental outrage that is Whitfield New Town was to farm council tax payers, many of whom are surplus populations from London Boroughs being trafficked to newly-created grief holes on what should be left as countryside.
The whole misguided project sums up so much of what is wrong with the UK.
This is actually a crime against the environment.I am going to start posting photos of what is to be lost just for a six year financial boost. Anyone who thinks "Whitfield Urban Expansion" is a good idea has something wrong with them, unless they have their filthy great snouts in the trough.
A curse on those who build and live on my precious farm.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#15
A senior civil servant was quoted a few months back as saying that only a small proportion of the United Kingdom was built on, this was in response to projected population growth. If you count the Scottish Highlands and islands, Lake District, Yorkshire moors and wolds, Dartmoor, Exmoor, Norfolk broads and countless other beauty spots that I cannot remember off the top of my head he is probably correct. However who wants to live in one big urban sprawl like Hong Kong? Other than Malta we are the most densely populated country in the EU and that is only because Malta has no Mountains, rivers to speak of or railway lines so everything can be built on.
lbroads