Relief Soon For Beleaguered London Road Shops

• Terry Nunn

  • Location: London Road, Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  28 June 2011     12:53112168
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  Since that picture was taken concrete has been poured, in a few days the top layer of tarmac will be added. At last the shops will have parking space outside. All the businesses have suffered a decline in trade in the last few weeks. Deliveries have been a nightmare.
  
  It's not over yet though, soon the next section will be done from Churchill Street to Beaconsfield. The gas main will then cross the main road to other side creating an even worse chicane.
  
  Terry
  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• Guest 640

  • Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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  28 June 2011     16:14112195
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  Good grief that looks a right mess. I wonder if there is a compensation scheme for shops that are affected in this way. I dont know. But smaller retailers who are just breaking even, or just making the best of poor market conditions, really feel the impact of such restricted use of the car.
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• Guest 708

  • Registered: 22 Dec 2010
  • Posts: 102
  28 June 2011     20:58112265
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  The filling in of the road surface so far after the work is done is not a smooth job. Are the contractors under pressure to finish
• Guest 645

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  28 June 2011     21:15112275
  #4      
  Place your bets as to how long it will be before it's dug up again.
  
  I give it 20 days...before the MacAlpine Fusiliers decide that something is amiss and there is still good council money to be had and conned out of some gullible poorly educated non professional unopposed elected town ,district, parish or mothers union knitting group councillor by quoting water tables,heatwave or time travel in order to justify the re-digging of the aforementioned trench.
  Marek
  I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
• Guest 664

  • Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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  29 June 2011     19:27112436
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  The record was set last year when just one day after the surface of Folkestone Road was dug up and relaid using amazing conbine harvester-style machines, workmen outside the short-lived Alma Café dug up the shiny new road.