Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#1
Guest 1266- Registered: 8 May 2014
- Posts: 381
#2
"Practical completion" in 2016 - thats a new one!
Jack of Hearts
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,321
#3
If you click on "Invest In Dover" you get a rotating picture. Among them is "High Speed Train In Dover", I don't think so! Not unless platform one is now curved!
Doubtless train spotters will tell us where it is.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#4
Exactly Jack, Spring 2016 when the compulsory purchases have yet to be sorted. At least DDC are optimistic even if I am not although maybe some bits of it might be completed.
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
#5
I would have thought that date of 2016 would have pleased most if not all people.
I know you can't please all the people all the time, but please be more positive.
Roger
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
#6
M&S in by 2016 sorry Mr Walkden but not at the speed it is moving now,
Still looks like a bomb site from the war 60years ago infact it looked better then.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
#7
Don't people WANT it as soon as possible ?
Roger
Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
- Posts: 1,031
#8
Yes Roger, they've been wanting it as soon as possible since it was first announced 15 years ago!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#9
The doubt is completion in 2016 Roger, seems a very tall order.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#10
vic,a reminder its 70 years since the end of ww2.
still trying to be positive here but would like to see more movement in clearing the site,
Guest 697- Registered: 13 Apr 2010
- Posts: 622
#11
Majority of site has been cleared - Stagecoach depot, MFI building, Fanum House - all demolished, and CPO process for remaining land well underway.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
#12
Its the going up we need to see there is room now to build a new town .The site is in a mess old matress and other things lieing about and the build up of rubbish and we now have the down and outs drinking and living on the site.
At one time I did think yes at last it is going to happen sorry I do not feel that way anymore.Just as before it was hold off talking again.Election time coming up that will put it back more.
Would this happen in Deal or any place bar Dover No to that.
Guest 697- Registered: 13 Apr 2010
- Posts: 622
#13
Securing ownership of the whole site is the key to the next steps. By no means a situation unique to Dover.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
#14
If you say so.I have no more to say
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
#15
Kevin is dead right, securing ownership of the site is key. The people holding out are the ones delaying things, not DDC.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#16
The last I heard that the County Hotel was holding things up which is rather ironic as I believe that the owners made their money out of housing asylum seekers enabling them to buy the hotel in the first place.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
#17
No. No. No.
You're all wrong.
The 2016 date refers to the date when new hoardings are installed at Bench Street which is something the whole town can celebrate. Imagine the creative graffiti which might be drawn attracting throngs of tourists who put the town high on their list of places to visit.
Such a cynical lot here.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#18
Philip,in short a wind farm just for you.
Guest 1266- Registered: 8 May 2014
- Posts: 381
#19
Vic that is a good point, no this situation wouldn't happen else where. A quick search on the internet brings up articles going back 15 years where the planners at DDC are saying... we are almost there. DDC have done more damage to Dover than the Germans during WW2. If you look at local demographics, during the last 15 years a large percentage of the 'working age' - group have moved to places like Deal and Sandwich and this is accelerating. This is why this huge grand DTIZ scheme which is dependent on so many variables is so wrong, it is unsustainable. The land available now, should be built on now. Developed in small stages delivering imaginative and inspirational future proof schemes rather than a huge white elephant multiplex.
Jack of Hearts
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
#20
Sorry Jack, I totally disagree with you - on almost every point.
Roger
