howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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ed is as eloquent as ever, the whole issue seems to have gone very quiet, i suspect a deal has been done and the goverment is trying to find a wy of breaking the news.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
easy peasy,and the winner is the french/the arabs the peoples port.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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It is not difficult to change Dover from a "to-it-and-through-it" Town, to become a destination; it may take a year or two to come to fruition, but it can be done.
In the meantime, as Marek has said on another thread, we need the buildings tidied up, the litter removed, flowers blooming all year and other things done to create a much more welcoming Town.
During the summer (from perhaps Easter to September), there could be bunting in the Town, making it look more welcome too.
It wouldn't cost the Earth, but it would make a hell of a difference.
Roger
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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roger
I don't disagree with your thoughts, so who's going to make it happen??
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,894
It is a town matter so the obvious group to start the whole thing off is Dover Town Council.
It is the relatively small things that Roger has mentioned that make a place look cared for.
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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It depends really Keith.
If the stakeholders (DDC/DTC/DHB and local businesses) are prepared to put in some money to Dover to pay for the salary of that person, I will happily do it.
I am not going to work for free (again), so need a salary, but will work my socks off to come up with the goods.
I will of course be happy to take on board sensible suggestions and work out their practicality/feesability.
Roger
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,894
Roger, are you touting for a job change?
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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No Jan I'm not.
I am already employed by the Channel Chamber of Commerce as their Dover Business Support Manager and for the first 3 to 4 months I have been concentrating on Work-Placements for Dover's young people.
Now that that part is at an end, I am working on supporting Dover and the businesses here; I am half way through a Tourism Strategy for Dover Town and half way through a Plan of Action for Dover too - these need to be finished off and I need to be able to work on a range of initiatives to help improve Dover and move it forward.
I don't want to just enrol businesses as members, to the Channel Chamber, although that is a very important aspect of it; it is treating the problem in an holistic way, that will bring the required changes.
Roger
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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ROGER;
I see where your coming from, but who foots your wages?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
roger
how successful was the work placement scheme?
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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When I started the job Howard, I was advised that they were looking at around 30 odd for that period, at the end of that period I had just under a 100 work-placements for young people to go to.
Not all were taken up by those young people for various reasons, but it did mean that there could/should have been about 100 young people with a prospect of a real job at the end of their work-placement period.
Given another 3/6 months doing it, I do believe that it would have made an even greater difference to an even greater number of young people.
Keith - that is the big question and one I am actively working on; if no one pays - DTC, DDC, DHB, local businesses etc. then that function will not make any progress and I won't have a job and Dover will not make any progress either.
Roger
Judging by the amount of people each year that atempt to swim the channel each year im sure the sea would be safe to swim in , or should i say i hope it is .
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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They used to say that the sea at Southend was so polluted you could not swim - just go through the motions.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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MARK;
The sewarage companies always said it was okay to get riod of sewarage out to sea Always suspected that not to be the case treated sewarage or not
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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O.K. I get the hint.
Roger