howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Elms Vale & Northbourne Play Areas are being refurbished by Dover District Council. For your chance to see the proposed designs and choose your favourite make sure you attend the consultations at The Ark on the 14th & 15th November between 3 - 5pm.
no mention of the one in priory, must be an oversight
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I'm surprised I haven't received an email about that.
There was a consultation back in May I believe and I went up to Elmsvale Rec. to meet the people and see what they had to say - there were some good ideas from the children, but the most mportant thing was that the ground (concrete) between the play equipment was crumbling and holes were appearing and was becoming a danger to the children running between each piece.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i was told of it roger but cannot find it on ddc website.
Guest 776- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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You need a good playarea and recreation facilities along the Folkestone Road. The whole area, Clarendon, Westbury could do with extra facilities. I observe many children playing in the street, and Elms Vale is quite a trek.
Westmount, burnt out, sad place, has a huge amount of land around it
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I do not think we need to go over all that again.
Keith Sansum1
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well priory loses out again
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Westmount is almost ready for a new planning application (there is an extant one in now) and land has been bought next to the station for development of a 500 spoce car-park, retail outlets and apartments, so there will be Section 106/CIL money to help; it's just the site that needs to be found.
My own view - and I have put this forward many times, is that the old Clarendon play-area is a good location as it would accommodate the greatest numbers; children don't need to have a dead-level area to run around and play - the equipment itself needs to be on level ground of course.
I have been told though that this will never happen as legislation has changed over recent years and any new play area will need to be DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) compliant and it can never be that, so the normal healthy kids suffer if they cant get to Elmsvale Rec.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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could the waste land in malvern road be developed for a play area.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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so many sites been viewed before howard
all excuses why it cant happen
none why it can
planning office in action???
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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Some nice unused allotments off Belgrave, Howard, if I recall.
Flat land , easy walking access & money ready to do it.
Backs onto community hall who have a small play area , I think.
Watty
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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2 doors from me paul, not sure how many allotments are taken, you need to know the security code to get in. it was a front runner for a play area some years ago, cannot remember why it didn't happen.
roger or sheila will probably know.
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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Something to do with their representative objecting.
Watty
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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oh well i know roger is investigating at least 2 possible locations and is in regular contact with council officers over the matter.
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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Do you consider it worth following it up Howard?
Watty
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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no need to paul, roger copies me in on his correspondence with ddc and the officers appear to be doing their best to assist.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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I think this area should be revisited.Town Council no longer wish to manage the allotments.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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This was (so I thought) an ideal location for a play-area, but the residents of Westbury Road complained because they didn't want to hear the sound of children's laughter in the summer (or anytime come to that !). I paid a visit to a couple of people in Westbury and they showed me their back garden and their entry into the allotments, they were adamant they did not want a children's play area there.
Shortly afterwards, the allotment land, which was and is, owned by the Municipal Charities of Dover, was passed over to the Town Council for them to offer for allotments; I don't know the real reason why, but the Town Council have handed them back (to the MCD).
To my mind, the proximity to houses and in the centre of a residential area, lent this to be an ideal and safe place for children to play, but you can't impose this on residents if they really don't want it. Maybe there's been a change of mind/heart ?
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i cannot see how the noise from a play area there would be any more than from the pre-school in summer, maybe this location should be looked at again?
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I thought running allotments was a statutory duty of town and parish councils.
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