Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,100
Looks like the plug has been finally pulled on the cable car to the castle?
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/towns-cable-car-project-looking-unlikely-258306/
The good news is that the lunatics at DDC only spent spent nearly £135,000 of our money on the project, with £83,000 paying for consultant fees and the economic assessment.
The frightening bit is that they had approved an allowance of up to £1.5m.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/castle-cable-car-plans-1-5m-boost-236033/
Close call there.
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- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
"...in May, English Heritage announced the charity could not fund the next stage of the project, saying unacceptable harm could be done to the castle.
"Other problems arose from technical studies and surveys, which found that up to 500 extra car parking spaces could be needed in the town, and there would be a high chance of disturbing buried archaeology in Dover valley.
"Next Monday, Dover council’s cabinet will formally decide to cease work on the project for the time being, with hopes that the situation will change in the future ."
Good job the castle and buried archaeology are unlikely to be going anywhere anytime soon.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Common sense at last
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Not to mention that you could have spoken to any local who could have advised them that there would be about 7 or 8 days per year that it could safely be used. Not only that, any local could have also advised about the potential damage to our glorious castle!
I would say muppets, but that would be insulting to muppets.
My consultancy fee for telling them all that would have been £6.87 plus VAT. Don't ask me where I got £6.87 from, it's just as random as their figures!
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,257
Sue Nicholas wrote:Common sense at last
Sadly it had to come from Heritage rather than our council!
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,075
Sorry but I do not agree with any of you I first try to get this plan off the ground in the 1990s I was talking to the D.H.B.D,D,C, and EH. I still have the letters about it in my own archive it would bring much needed public to Dover and that would increased business and funds for the outlets of the town.That is just my point of view ,there is no need for a backlash about it,
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,257
Vic you are completely entitled to your opinion, unfortunately the majority of the public disagree with the idea and yet our council have continued to move forward with it and waste ours not their money. That is what the "backlash" is about.
My view is we don't need gimmicks to bring people to Dover we already have some of the most enviable historic landscape and historically important architecture in the country, it is just not being promoted in any meaningful way.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
Indeed poster number 6 has a minority opinion .
It's the taxpayers money wasted again by our elected councillors
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,075
Mr Barring ton sir it is not a gimmick, I lived and worked in Germany for fair time and there are lots of towns with them and a lot of visitors come just to use them me being one of them it is just what the town needs it will not get done in my life time, but it will be build one day.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Ridiculous idea .I wish some of the people who post realise how much money is wasted on pie in the air schemes.When the care system in this country is sorted and people are not on the streets and people donot rely on food banks then I will stop complaining.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Trawling though the forum, I note that at one point it wasn't one cable car, but two: "Proposals include looking at transport-related schemes, including cable cars to link the Western Heights to the Western Docks and the Eastern Docks to Dover Castle, and a rapid bus system providing further linkage to Dover Priory" said a DDC press release.
https://www.dover.uk.com/forums/dover-forum/cable-car-plan?p=2(Not my real name.)
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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And why not sir? yes it might be a pipe dream but it might come about with the right backing.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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It's not what Dover needs
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
Keith Sansum1 wrote:It's not what Dover needs
Or even wants, it was a stupid idea right from the start and would have been yet another white elephant.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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D.H.B. DOES NOT THINK that way D,D,C, also does not think that way I do not know about EH.and they are the ones that matter.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
It's well over 10 years since I heard DHB mention cable cars.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
Anyone else think there are several members of this forum who refuse to accept any other point of view but their own.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Jan Higgins wrote:Anyone else think there are several members of this forum who refuse to accept any other point of view but their own.
Yep. Me! But the cable car is still the brainchild of bumpkins.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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I like to watch the debate and give my view
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,075
As I said it will not get done in my life time ,but it does have a lot of support with the right folk ,sorry to say only a few post on the forum now but still over 600 members and I know some think the same way as I do,just because the D.H.B.are not saying anything about it ,that does not mean they do not support it, they do not have the funds right now because of their new port which cost millions but in a few years time they will again look at the plans all ready drawn up.