Guest 776- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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"The Port is the major employment site in Dover and must continue to prosper."
Bringing this comment to the fore, by Dover District Council. Bedfellows aren't they just.
The Port is not employing local labour anymore. Have all these talks and protests, hopes etc, that the Port could be part of the Dover District Community missed Whitfield,
Are they all asleep
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,087
Motis Ireland are a Northern Irish freight forwarding/transportation/shipping company.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I'm sure the Palace of Whitfield must be a bigger employer than DHB nowadays.....
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
at the end of the day the lorry park will be of benefit to all in dover town, especially aycliffe, snargate and townwall streets.
even the air quality would be improved so in my view this development is to be applauded.
Guest 776- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
- Posts: 2,438
Still have to get those that park in the surrounding area for free to part with their money and use the Truckstop.
Audere est facere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
the port is more than just dr bob's enterprise.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
I have no more to say on this matter.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
that will be a first,,,,,
District council doesnt hold a view on the peoples port?
but the leader has campaigned for the privatisation of the DHB
interesting times ahead,,,
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Well Keith, that's why I voted UKIP in 2005. But he was campaigning as prospective parliamentary candidate not as Leader of the council.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
the jungle drums are beating and the message coming through is that there will be an announcement on the future of the port on the morrow.
will the evil bob get his way or nice neil live to fight another day?
to be continued.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Howard, I have a little 'inside track' advantage here and I would advise everyone not to hold their breath. Any announcement this week is likely to come from Dr Bob not the DfT.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
you may well be right peter my information comes from the harbour house citadel, but i have also been informed that an amendment to the ports act will be debated tomorrow in the house.
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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The second reading of the Ports Act 1991 Amendment Bill will not take place tomorrow, it has been postponed for now.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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The second reading will now be on the 1st March 2013.
It's a very short Bill:
A
BILL
TO
Make provision for the Ports Act 1991 to cease to have effect or application in
certain circumstances; and for connected purposes.
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1Schemes to be subject to local referendum
(1)The Secretary of State shall not make an order making, or confirming, a scheme
under Part 1 of the Ports Act 1991 unless the scheme has been previously
approved by a local referendum.
(2)5The Secretary of State shall make regulations governing the procedure by
which local referenda shall be held for the purposes of subsection (1).
(3)Regulations made under subsection (2) shall be made by statutory instrument;
but no such instrument shall be made unless a draft has been laid before, and
approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.
(4)10In drafting regulations under subsection (2), the Secretary of State shall have
regard to the provisions made by virtue of Chapter 4ZA of Part 1 of the Local
Government Finance Act 1992 (inserted by Schedule 5 to the Localism Act
2011).
2Expenses15Any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in holding local referenda under
section 1 shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament.
3Short title and extent
(1)This Act may be cited as the Ports Act 1991 (Amendment) Act 2013.
(2)This Act applies to England and Wales only.
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I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
whilst the procrastination goes on and the protagonists shadow box the town is ever more being starved of investment.
should the cable car ever happen they could use it to take us all to the workhouse.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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No funding available for a workhouse Howard.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
Does this mean there will be a local referendum on the DHB privatisation plan?
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
Not the current scheme, Alex, because it is being considered under current legislation and Charlie's Bill has yet to be debated.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
no alex,not evan for getting out of europe or any thing elce you can muster up.
