Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#1
This forum is becoming very uninteresting.Only the odd comments from one or two keep it going .Howards where is it no longer.One posts something which at one time got many people posting .The saga with the buses not one Councillor responds .Capt does try to be helpful.
Soup kitchen not one response .The activities of all the various grant funded organisations . St Radigunds still in the top twenty as most deprived,when will something be done to improve the area ?I understand the school is doing very well.
Guest 1997- Registered: 3 Mar 2017
- Posts: 148
#2
Yes, Sue. It's odd, isn't it? This curious lack of interest. I mean - look at my particular cause celebre. £350,000 of public dosh gets hived off into an unaccountable company which then suddenly morphs into a charity. A property is then purchased at a rather breathtakingly favourable price. A few more unelected trustees emerge to join forces with the original protagonists. But it's all OK. It's about regeneration and it's called LoveDover.
Nothing much has happened since. Nobody seems to know what the current commercial arrangements are. There seems to be no action whatosever on the many other properties or projects which could benefit from a liitle cash and public spirited guidance. Yet the PR guff assures us these new trustees are all such great luminaries that they are capable of all manner of altruistic acts.
But nobody comes on here to argue their case and dispel my disquiet. There is a LoveDover account but the owner is apparently nothing to do with the aforementioned pillars of our community.
If this doesn't engender any interest then Lord knows what will. Oh well.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#3
I agree Stuart ,apathy .The people of Dover should be up in arms all these months have passed and the former owner of Dickens Corner who needed to retire is still working there.The upstairs converted into flats ?.So much for housing needs.
The current Mayor so good was elected for a further term and all I see event programmes and sponsorship by his company.
Until people are more proactive and challenge Dover will never shine at its best.Just get unwelcome publicity.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#4
Speaking generally we don't have the thread starters that we had in the past, we have people commenting or ticking the "like" box on threads but not coming up with new issues. Stuart makes the valid point about "loveDover" which to all intents and purposes says very little about their activities either on social media or the press. We have one Town Councillor and two District Councillors that post but the vast majority at all three levels say very little publicly. I understood that the manager of Dickens Corner was retiring at the end of August but until last week was still advertising for new staff. The first floor of the building was thrown open for a community event in the Summer but nothing since.
The Town Team have been quiet since their excellent bid for funding was turned down by the Coastal Communities fund.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#5
I agree with both of the above a flurry of comments then nothing. It seems to be a case of if it is not politics it is not worth talking about.
I find there are more interesting topics getting discussed on FB than here which is really sad and also surprising.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#6
Agree Jan this was in the past a lively forum. .Thanks Howard for the update .I get very sad when travelling round St Radigunds when there elected representatives are on all these groups but their own wards need their input .
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
#7
FWIW I don't find the forum uninteresting; on the contrary, it's quite lively on occasion. I'm not on here all day, but when I do look in there's normally something to make me choke on my coffee. I agree that there seems be a lack of interest in some of the more local stuff although, as some have suggested above, this may be more to do with a lack of genuine information issuing from official sources than anything else; then we simply have speculation (which isn't uninteresting in itself). I always do a thread search before I post in order to avoid duplication. But I'm disappointed my 'cosmic dust' contribution didn't have many takers.
I've been strung out on opioids and stuck indoors with sciatic pain from my left buttock down to my toes for about a month after slipping a disc while doing some aggressive painting. But I'm determined to get to the library today, and I'll let you all know if there's any word on the street...
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#8
Sory about your leg pain I get that sometimes.Stress doesn't help .
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#9
Maybe the st rads cllrs might like to comment on the problems at triangles?
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,300
#10
As a relative newcomer to the Forum, my interests do tend to gravitate towards the political Forum. I put this down to the fact that I am no longer resident in Dover so tend not to have the contextual information required to contribute too much - although I do read almost every post and find it a good vehicle for keeping my eye in with what's going on. Conversely, the political forum tends to be more nationally focused and thus a little easier to comment on.
More generally, I am also a regular poster on the Dover Athletic FC Forum and the same is true there, most debates play out over Facebook and other social media as opposed to the stand alone Forum - one of those things I guess.
John Buckley
- Registered: 6 Oct 2013
- Posts: 615
#11
You make a fair and valid point there Neil.
But also interestingly and only out of curiosity, can I ask who you post as on the DAFC forum? ( But understand of course if that's something you would rather keep private. )
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#12
never mind you can go to BOB and watch the russki fleet sail by.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#13
Trouble at your bus stop today. Brian a controller had to fix the bus .My back is done in travelling on the old buses .I think your route gets a slightly larger bus .Ours are eleven years old and the troad surfaces are in a state.
our Councillors are very silent .These new routes are not working .People in West Kent get a better deal re Highway issuies ..
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#14
sue, all roads in dover are past there sell by date,its like riding in a 17 century stage coach with no suspension.the road between Charlton green and castle street is very bad.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#15
Full Town Council meeting on the morrow and very little on the agenda, certainly nothing about LoveDover or what the final decision is on the Mayor's car. I don't really see any point in the presentations over the Goodwin Sands at this stage coming up to the decision from the MMO.
https://dovertowncouncil.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/a-TC-Agenda-for-20-Sep-17-full-papers-.pdfSue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#16
No there other issuies they could deal with?Brian is correct t that stretch of road terrible.I did report it to Cllr Collor
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
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Brian Dixon wrote:sue, all roads in dover are past there sell by date,its like riding in a 17 century stage coach with no suspension.the road between Charlton green and castle street is very bad.
As a pedestrian I find many of the pavements in dire need of repair, full of uneven patches. I now walk with my head down so I hopefully don't trip.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#18
Same here.Not good for your back .
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Just looked at the financials on the DTC website and note that they paid a PR company £. 2382 for dealing with press enquiries in August. The replies from said PR company were so bland and off subject that the Express never bothered to print them.
I thought we voted in councillors to speak on our behalf not a PR company - delusions of grandeur spring to mind.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,300
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Hi John, no problem - I am Qatari White, as I have lived in Doha for the past five years. COYW!