Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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#1
4 of our banners advertising the market have been sabotaged, the cable ties cut and the banners removed.
Who are these people?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#2
where were these banners, i saw one yesterday but cannot remember where it was now, might have been york street.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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#3
Pencester, Castle St, Castle Hill, Bridge St, all gone
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#4
bridge street(near morrisons) is where i saw it now, were any on private property david?
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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#5
All on railings Howard, the same thing happened last year its sickening.
Time and money wasted because of idiots, makes you wonder why you bother sometimes
Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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#6
Use the BIG SCREEN to advertise and approach DDC re their advertising boards.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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#7
Lesley, advertising on the big screen is not allowed.
What do you mean by DDC boards?
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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#8
The theft of these banners is one subject that the local papers should pick up on.
I assume Lesley is thinking of the boards like the one outside the Town Hall. How about local parish notice boards if the various Parish Councils will let you, it would almost certainly entice those into the Town from the local villages.
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Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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#9
Good idea Jan
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#10
lesley is refering to the boards in stembrook car park, outside the gateway centre and a few other sites in the town centre.
if my memory serves me correct - outside burtons, k college hairdressers and hot dog bobby's.
david
the banner is still up outside st edmund's chapel.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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#11
Do you mean the decaux boards Howard?
We put 6 up and 4 have been taken down, I won't reveal where they are in case the saboteur looks in here
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#12
that's right david, some have commercial ads on one side and ddc events on the other.
when you say railings - do you mean ones against the roadside?
if so i think they belong to the highways agency, kent highways or similar therefore permission to hang things on there would need to be obtained.
cannot see it as the work of vandals, not enough excitement or broken glass for them.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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#13
According to DTC Highways will approach people and ask them to be removed.
The decaux boards are booked well in advance and last for a month, pretty expensive too. Still a month is better than the two days of banners we got.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 904- Registered: 21 Mar 2013
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Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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I'm not sure what the Mercury will do for their scoops when I die
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#17
Quite large waterproof sheets, I would imagine they would keep tarmac etc covered in the back of flat back vans
Audere est facere.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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#18
We've had notification that Kent Highways removed them.
OK rules are rules but surely the function of KCC is to encourage enterprise not act as a deterrent.
Ho hum, I'll just have to get permission elsewhere and find something else to rant about
What do you know of Baldini Martin?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#19
as i thought all along, i believe the same thing happened at the inception of the market.
martin
they will also make excellent curtains once i have got the printing out.
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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#20
David.
Similar happened to us at EKR. one member paid a lot out of his own pocket to put up a sign on private land with permission from the owner and Kent Highways went onto his land and removed it without permission because we did not ask them for permission.
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