howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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This will be on flat scrubland with provision for social housing and GPs surgery but I bet there will be a concerted effort by locals to block it.
16/01469 Outline application for up to 142
dwellings (comprising up to 99
market dwellings – including 30
retirement dwellings, and up to 43
social rented dwellings), Use Class
A1 shops, Use Class D1 medical
facilities, country park, attenuation
pond, primary school car park and
access, associated infrastructure,
and creation of access (appearance,
landscaping, layout and scale of
development to be reserved)
Land to the north of, New Dover
Road, Capel-le-Ferne, CT18 7HB
Paul M- Registered: 1 Feb 2016
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Up to 43 social rented dwellings? That'll be one then.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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15 people have posted their views on the planning website and all objecting, the word village keeps cropping up. I go through there often and I just see it as a long sprawl of bungalows tacked on the end of Folkestone. Only one shop there I believe, a pub at either end and another closer to the cliffs(very nice I hasten to add) but no actual central feature to it.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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- Posts: 6,025
I think a lot people regard the Village Hall and sports facilities as the centre. End of Capel street open fields .Very good farmers market .
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Jan Higgins
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- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,883
There is more to Capel than can be seen from a bus. Definitely not just "a long sprawl of bungalows" there were several shops (long closed I expect) in the nice old part of the village as well as some cottages and the primary school when I lived there many years ago
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Sue Nicholas wrote:I think a lot people regard the Village Hall and sports facilities as the centre. End of Capel street open fields .Very good farmers market .
One has to negotiate side turnings to discover the village hall and the excellent outdoor leisure area Sue, so hardly a central point.
Paul M- Registered: 1 Feb 2016
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Those side turnings are such a nuisance
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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- Posts: 6,025
Years ago probably it was the centre.In my view the heart of the village is where people meet for events .
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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This is the same developer planning to build in Capel, will have to wait and see whether a rush of letters of support suddenly flood in.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/sandwich/news/homes-supporters-from-outside-village-119223/
