howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Mystic Meg forecasts the answers to the questions posed above.
1. Zilch
2. Dunno. Not my property. Privately owned. Not mine or anyone else's business.
3. Zilch. Looks fairly stable to me.
4. Because it's private property. We are not in sodding Zimbabwe where the state takes over private property.
5. Dunno. (see2)
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Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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She is probably well foresighted Bob.
Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
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Suggest the good burghers involved in this campaign do the following:
a) apply to have this site registered as an Asset of Community Value - if successful and the site comes up for sale they would the have 6 months to put together a bid to purchase it for the community
b) talk to the owners and ascertain their intentions
c) Perhaps negotiate the sale with the current owners then the choice is in their hands and no-one elses
This has bugger all to do with DDC except if the building becomes dangerous or the owners submit a planning application.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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It ceased being a cinema about 50 years ago much like many all around the country and became a bingo hall. Suddenly a group of people decide that the town needs one despite the fact that investors have not shown an interest. Reminds me of of the flag issue outside our town council offices when a small group of people decide we needed one and suddenly people who had shown no interest before acted as if they had always campaigned for.
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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Ross,
a. Already so designated
b. In hand & has been for two years at least -discussions with planners.
c. Owners have shown no inclination to sell their property.
Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
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Paul
That is good then, still bugger all to do with your good offices though, so looks like the aforementioned meeting will be very short
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Guest 2175- Registered: 27 Jul 2017
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Firstly, our Group got the building listed as an ACV and have tried to contact the owners to put them in touch with independent film companies WHO WANT TO OPEN IN DEAL. Curzon, Everyman and Kino are talking to us. Secondly, this isn't a small town - we have a population of 30,085, which isn't much less than Dover - yet some (who may be a tad stuck in the past) can't grasp what a cinema could mean for Deal, not least in terms of job creation and a boost for tourism.
Button- Location: Dover
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Good show! Hey, why not build a new cinema - I mean, when the lights go down you can't see a chocolate raisin in front of your face, far less the building itself.
(Not my real name.)
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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One interesting question is what the effect of reopening (sic) of the Regent would be on the independently run Empire Cinema but a few miles away in Sandwich, whose clientele come one third from Deal, especially with the much heralded multi-screen in the DTIZ site opening 'soon'.
Funny old thing the Law of Unintended Consequences?
(Hoping that my comments above do not result in another load of offensive and intemperate e-mailed abuse in the early hours from Mr Stuke, a man with no discernible sense of humour, who is apparently a local thespian - i.e. Third casualty - Holby City - 1987)
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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only £3.27p howard that's a bit tight.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Packed house at the Astor theatre and celebrity spotters together with autograph hunters will have seen Sir Peter Wallace among the assembled throng.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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You here too Howard?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Certainly not Bob my dinner would have gone cold. Being fed stuff and some right hard cases in the audience I see.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Plans to be submitted by early September for 4 screens with a cafe to stage special events which bring Deal away from being a Cinderella town, however Scrutiny are very dubious having seen it all before.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Would anyone consider buying a second hand car from this lot? I feel sure more than one of them has form.
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
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