Alec Sheldon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
- Posts: 1,037
Read in the Kent on Sunday today the following.
"Government proposals last week include the abolition of the South East plan which sets specific housing targets for towns throughout the region"
Does this mean that the proposals for all the housebuilding in Whitfield will be scrapped.?
Read it on line, I don't know how to highlight it.
Alec, the South East Plan was developed well before the present recession. No commercial operation is going to build homes if they can't sell them and up and down the country developers are roofing and boarding up to await an upturn in the economy.
Have a look here, for example, at Barratt Developments plunging share price!
http://graphs.lse.co.uk/GetGraph.asp?gcode=BDEV&mode=ShareCharts&r=0.37179303385723295&p=10&ma=9&t=2&comp=howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
the last government only gave the green light to the housebuilding.
it was never likely that developers would have built large estates up at whitfield.
Following a couple of e-mails relating to #3 above I would like to make it clear that when I wrote it I had NOT heard of the fire at R J Barwick in Coombe Valley Road.
Alec Sheldon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
- Posts: 1,037
Bob, my brother in law has been a small builder in Essex for thirty years but has packed it all in and works for some one else now. It is not worth the hassle he told me.
Thanks for the graph.
I thought that Barwicks went out of business a while back. Probably still got the yard though.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
must have been about a year ago they packed up alec.
sad to see a long established business go to the wall like that.
A bit like Iceland then Howard.
First of all they claim they are bankrupt then there's a mysterious volcano?
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
- Posts: 1,266
If this means that the ridiculous Whitfield plan has hit the rocks, I for one shall not be sorry. This was addled thinking at best - quite where all the people living in these new houses were supposed to find employment was never answered. Barry W gave it a good attempt, but nobody ever really believed an unemployment problem area could possibly take in so many more people.
True friends stab you in the front.
I'm with you Andy. Not-thought-through springs to mind!!
PS - fancy some scrabble on FB?
One can only wonder how much of our money was invested by DDC in the ridiculous Whitfield plan both in man-hours for their staff + the inevitable outside consultants and even 'legal advice'.
Presumably the equally ridiculous idea of expanding Deal has hit the buffers. Were that to have gone ahead I would have been out of here and heading to the far west. There is one Hell of a difference between a load of wealthy and educated DFLs buying their place in the conservation area, and becoming subsumed into London overspill with its vibrant and exciting multi-cultural society.
Please tell me that there is no truth in the rumour that DDC are looking into the possibility of turning moonbeams into cucumbers which in turn are to be changed into bio-ethanol which will power the cable car to the Castle?
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
Alec, I hope these plans will be scrapped, as they are solely for the intent of housing mass immigration! Even if British families moved into new houses, the ones they leave behind would be given over to the mass immigrants. An example: the Clarendon area in Dover is becoming an area of mass immigration, and so I assume the British families living there are moving out to different areas. It has already happened in London since the fifties: ethnic groups move into a zone and become the only inhabitants, and all the British families move out to other areas. I hope these Labour plans of mass immigration into Kent fail, fail, fail!
Our Garden of England was populated more than in any previous time in history by Kentish and other British people before Labour launched their mass immigration policy on Britain, so are we supposed to renounce having future Kentish generations and sign our County over to foreigners and their children? I say no! I don't want them! Full stop! What madness: in the year 2000 Labour decides to hand densly populated Britain over to mass immigration! Madness!
Alexander D,
So can we assume then that you will absolutely refuse to be treated by any one who looks, or sounds foriegn if you are taken ill and have to go to hospital???
SMILEY:
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
alex
things will not change with new government.
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
- Posts: 1,039
The whole barmy plan reeked of stupidity on every level.
From the sheer complacent, self-satisfied treachery of a Labour government which unsettled the entire country with its reckless mass immigration policy - just to "rub the right's noses in diversity"; to the unbending local politicans who planned to wreck miles of countryside on a harebrained scheme which would have done little for Dover.
If true, this is just some of the best news ever.
Blair, Prescott, Watkins and the rest of you who foisted this outrage on us, your boys took a hell of a beating!
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
- Posts: 1,266
Lord Prescott to you and me, Andrew. Let us know our places....
True friends stab you in the front.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
Jimmy Long! I can't figure out what you mean by this! Do you suggst that British people are too stupid to be doctors and nurses and that we need to import these from other countries? Other countries, in particular those with high birth rates, need their own doctors and nurses, and I consider it a disgrace that we in Britain import them from their own countries where they are needed. I am not racist, Jimmy, and to be against mass immigration in Britain in the year 2000-2010 with 60 million people in our densely populated Country is not equivalent to racism!
Alexander. Latest OECD report (2008) states:-
'Record numbers of Britons are leaving - many of them doctors, teachers and engineers - in the biggest exodus for almost 50 years.
There are now 3.247 million British-born people living abroad, of whom more than 1.1 million are highly-skilled university graduates, say the researchers.
More than three quarters of these professionals have settled abroad for more than 10 years, according to the study by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
No other nation is losing so many qualified people, it points out. Britain has now lost more than one in 10 of its most skilled citizens, while overall only Mexico has had more people emigrate.'
So, no we are not too stupid to produce our own doctors and nurses, but nor are many of them stupid enough to stay here once trained!
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
Well, Bob, at least Britannia will remain with us!
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
didnt she die a few hundred years ago alex.
