howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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11 August 2010
14:5864950#1
espied today in priory street an application to convert no.4 into a food takeaway/restaurant with flats above.
the shops aren't numbered but it can only be the candle or computer shop.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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11 August 2010
15:5164955#2
It is (was) the Alternative Kitchens building - next to the bus stop
Been nice knowing you :)
11 August 2010
16:4664963#3
Howard
On DDC Planning website Applications dated 6th Aug under DOV/10/00627.
Design and Access Statement to the application states "Quality Restaurant and Takeaway"
On the same DDC list of 6th Aug is DOV/10/00558 for change of use to "Take Away" at 64 London Road....How many more at this end of Dover.
On my old hobyhorse of town cleanliness, are there too many "Takeaways" as they do seem to generate the rubbish in town.
Am rather surprised they all make a living.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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11 August 2010
16:5064965#4
Isn't that the same road as the old closed baby shop ?
I seem to remember an application a number of years ago, that was refused because of the double yellow lines outside.
I said at the time that it wasn't up to the business to control illegal parking, but it was still refused.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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11 August 2010
17:2464968#5
thanks for info pat.
roger
the kitchen shop is 2 doors away from the baby shop(one empty shop in between them).
i would think that the kitchen shop may just be moving, they seem to have regular deliveries which would suggest they had plenty of orders.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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12 August 2010
06:4265055#6
Thanks Howard - hope it is just a re-location; they are a good quality company.
It's great to see a new business opening up, but there must soon (if not already) be a surfeit of eateries in central Dover.
I know when I was at DBS, there were over 24 in Town. I guess market forces will decide which ones work and which ones don't, I just hope that it isn't most of them that do down like a pack of cards.
I guess every one has their favourite takeaway, whether Chinese, Indian, Fish and Chips, kebabs, or something else; If they are all (or the vast majority) in a the same street, is that a good thing or bad ? I guess that depends if you live on that particular road.
One of the bad things about takeaways must be litter, followed by noise and anti-social behaviour.
Roger
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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12 August 2010
06:5665057#7
The application actually includes both the old baby shop and the kitchen designers, as well as the former employment offices above. The plan is for a large restaurant, with tke-away service, and two flats above. Effectively it should clean-up the whole block between New Look and the candle shop.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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12 August 2010
07:5565064#8
Thanks Chris, I'll take a look at the application.
Sounds like a big restaurant - a "Hungry Horse" maybe ?
Roger
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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12 August 2010
08:0265067#9
They`d better enforce the parking round there, as there can be at least four buses round there at times, and I can see driver`s waiting outside or picking up/dropping off and watching for warden`s, whereby they`ll just fly off round Worthington Street and come back again. Not a good place for a fast food business I`d have thought.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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12 August 2010
09:1365079#10
must be a major company/franchise to take up all that space.
would be two very large flats as well.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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12 August 2010
12:2465122#11
A bit of Googling doesn't give much information, but the planning application is for Restaurant and it it was going to be a pub franchise, I would expect the application would need to talk more about the pub trade than alternative restaurants.
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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12 August 2010
15:5265162#12
There is no mention of a bar, or even an alcohol license, in the planning application.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour