Guest 973- Registered: 17 Jun 2013
- Posts: 12
I don't know if any of the residents of no 7 East Cliff ever look at this website but if you do, could you please do something about the overflowing bin outside your house?
It is shedding litter all over the pavement and the road and the place looks like a rubbish tip.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
welcome matthew, noticed a problem last time i was in east cliff and will pop up there soon and take some photos.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Matthew report it to DDC
Guest 904- Registered: 21 Mar 2013
- Posts: 312
Sue, you are DDC!
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Really ,I will report it .Were you at the sea front on Saturday Paul??
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Reported .Im trying to catch up with my housework before I go to DDC.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Officer of the council has made an inspection re the bin,it will be emptied on 1/8/13 East Cliff ,Athol terrace will be swept by the contactor .Must dash off to an engagement .
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 2,262
I know a woman who can!!!
Well done Sue, you do a great job week in week out
Guest 904- Registered: 21 Mar 2013
- Posts: 312
And that's how it should happen
Good job Sue. Always feel sorry for the residents of East Cliff/Atholl Terrace as the area has the feel of a forgotten backwater...
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,087
Do wake up everyone. 1st of August is the normal regular collection date from this address. No one has actually moved anything forward by one minute.
https://secure.dover.gov.uk/streetcollections/. Praise where praise is due, but when none is due, none should be given really. The rubbish bin will be allowed to overflow and crap up the area until the day that the area is due its normal routine clean-up and rubbish collection. Sue may have asked/alerted the relevant officer, but he/she has basically said that nothing will be done until the routine due date, so no extraordinary action has been taken to clean the mess up at all.
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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I'm just in receipt of info that more happened with the DDC officer than was reported on this thread, so apologies from me for taking what was written and what is in the public domain on the DDC web site at face value and concluding as I did in my above post.
It transpires that the officer did a little bit more than inspect the area and report back that all would be cleared up on the normal routine day. I am informed that the officer spoke with the offending party and that the immediate situation was remedied with further clean up on the normal day.
So apologies for being a dreadful cynic, but comment can only really be made on the facts that are known, one cannot take into account unknown facts or be held accountable for leaving them out of a comment when they simply have not been made known.
As said previously - 'praise where praise is due' and it would seem that such is warranted on this occasion.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
Neil, you can hardly be blamed for jumping to the same conclusion as I did when such a small bit of information is given either on this site or elsewhere, unfortunately none of us are mind readers.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I did as requested reported the problem.Its not even in my ward .I was out most of Monday and the officer involved sent me an email.I just reported back the details needed .Yesterday I did just that before going out on an engagement .I look after River with Alkham with my collegue.run my house manage my garden and try to be of help when reqd,
Im currently dealing with fly posting in River .
Thank you Neil for the apology.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
- Posts: 2,594
Some positive news for once re DDC which has to be encouraging.
Unfortunately it confirms my long held view that DDC should stick to simple tasks like emptying bins, it is clearly incapable of regeneration or revitalisation.
Councillors and officers will point fingers and pass the buck but threads like this beg the question:
What do these people do to justify their salaries and associated benefits?
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
David I thought you had a meeting with the Leader .You would have been told how the Councl works.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Yeah I did have a meeting with him earlier in the year, absolutely nothing has happened since.
Nothing ever does, they just barricade themselves in at Whitfield, wring their hands and issue the odd bland press release about a cinema or phone aerial.
Its time they held their hands up and admitted they're not up to the job, I don't know how the Regeneration Dept has the nerve to call itself that.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
- Posts: 2,594
I'll give you another example Sue.
A few weeks back I received a call from a senior figure at DDC saying a delegation of business people from Calais was visiting Dover and would the Town Team like to meet them to discuss ideas and opportunities. I enthusiastically agreed but the date came and went without another word.
Is it any wonder the perception of DDC in the town is despair bordering on disdain?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
i think we have enough threads on council bashing david, this one is about a problem in east cliff.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
- Posts: 2,594
Yep, and I praised them for what they did.
The Chairman then came on to tell us what a wonderful job she's doing, I thought I'd add a bit of balance.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I looked in at another forum.How sad some people are.In 2014 they will be able to at DDC and Parish level. register their protest at the ballot box.Meanwhile back to fly posting .
Sorry Howard straying off the original post .