howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Looking at the National Trust Annual Report they don't seem to be short of cash so not sure why they need to appeal for the money??
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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"Iconic designer Zandra Rhodes is passionate about the White Cliffs of Dover ........"
Hmmn I walk along the cliffs quite regularly and I'm racking my brains trying to remember when I've seen a purple haired woman strolling along the same route. Perhaps she sits in the front of a Morris minor with a quilt on her lap and flask and crab meat sandwiches in hand overlooking the Eastern docks.
Looking at the National trust website it seems they've pumped alot of money into combating climate change and finding ways to reverse the poles rather than the traditional issues we used to associate with them.
From their website:
"Some of our most significant sources of grants include the Lottery (Heritage Lottery Fund and the Big Lottery Fund), the Landfill Communities Fund, European grants such as Structural Funds, Interreg and Life, central and local government, and grants from bodies such as the Arts Council and Natural England. These grants often enable the Trust to work in partnership with other charities to achieve objectives that go well beyond what we could achieve on our own."
That explains alot.
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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A better campaign for the stars to get involved in would be to save the cliffs that ARE owned by DHB from being sold to whichever foreign ports group the DHB want to sell to by opposing the sale of our port.
For those who doubt that the DHB own a significant portion of cliffs, I've got a list of deeds and maps from the land registry and they do own as per the below:
• DHB currently owns the White Cliffs adjacent to Cliff Road up to and including the large area adjacent to Langdon Bay. DHB's proposal makes no mention of the fate of these significant national assets.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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The NT own the green bits on top. DHB owns the white bits on the front. Simples.
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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What about when the green bits end up at the bottom of the white bits.... ?
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Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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They fall under new ownership
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Great to see that Dover's White Cliffs are attracting international support for their preservation from potential sharks - developers.
That's what I've been saying, we're attracting support from far and wide, both at home and abroad for the cause to protect the White Cliffs of Dover, including the green areas on top of the cliffs, from developers.
This campaign must go on, we must succeed. Dover White Cliffs stretch 8 miles from Kingsdown to Dover, and 8 miles from Dover towards Folkestone.
This campaign to gather £1.2 million to save the Mile at Langdon is happening because people and organisations to not trust DDC not to hand over the area to developers, who would try to cash in hundreds of millions of pounds selling it off with houses.
DDC Planning have made a name for themselves as far as the West Coast of America and as far as Canada and Australia.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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What another load of b******S Alexander !!
"Great to see that Dover's White Cliffs are attracting international support for their preservation from potential sharks - developers.""
What threat????
"This campaign to gather £1.2 million to save the Mile at Langdon is happening because people and organisations to not trust DDC not to hand over the area to developers, who would try to cash in hundreds of millions of pounds selling it off with houses."
You really don't get it that DDC aren't selling any land to developers, not on the Heights not anywhere. Do you know actually how much "White Cliffs" DDC owns ?????? This is privately owned farmland, nothing to do with DDC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Can see it now - Dover Cannon Street, Mr Misinformation telling the tourists that DDC are planning on selling swathes of the White Cliffs to money-grabbing developers to build thousands of houses to rich business people that have no interest in the regenation of Dover....
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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So can I, sadly, Paul.
Roger
Brian Dixon
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i thought i saw a couple of suits touting for buissnes by st,marys this morning,.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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that's an easy one brian, they were assassins hired by an international development organisation to deal with alex.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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is that right howard,i thought they looked mafia types.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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alex can rest assured that he will get a state funeral with full military honours up at st mary in castro.
let's start the whip round now.
would love to see what scotchie coughs up.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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me to.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Paul, perhaps to your astonishment, I read the front page of the Dover Express dated June 28 2012, which I have hear in front of me:
The headlines: Trust to raise £1.2m to buy cliff-top site.
Here is one part of the article:
"Once bought, it would take an Act of Parliament before the land could be resold or built on."
So yes, quite clearly, one of the concerns of the National Trust does seem to be that this land could otherwise be built upon.
I also noted your misquoting of my words. I haven't stated that DDC would sell it off, nor that they own it, and having read the article last month, am fully aware that it is privately owned.
But the risk is, as I see it, DDC could in the future grant planning permission to developers, who could (after purchasing it from a private owner) sell it with houses built on top to private house buyers for a heap of hundreds of millions.
This is a potential risk, and so the National Trust want to prevent this from coming about. That's how I see it. Hopefully this serves for your misquotes.