Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,894
Having lived in an area (miles away from the base) where there were jet planes practising their manoeuvres overhead after a while you get used to it and no longer take any notice of them, the same goes for living next door to a train track. We do get the occasional large jet flying very low overhead in Dover, there was one just the other day.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
jan;
im afraid on your last post i disagree
low flying)(or any planes) are very much noticed,
I have said before it was noticed the increse recently in low flying planes.
not so sure i would ever get used to it.
and as a very light sleeper its a concern.
with regard to trains, this to i could never get used to, in fact i turned down house moves to areas where train tracks and trains went close by
whilst we viewing one house the train went by and so did did the ornaments lol
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The clue is there: you chose not to live there.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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BERN;
Thanks for your sarcasm but sadly I have no control over the skies!!!!!
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,894
My son lives right next door to the main London to Birmingham railway line in the ex-stationmaster's house where the fast trains thunder past for a few seconds and even as a visitor I got used to the noise after a few days. I got my house slightly cheaper because the DGGS playing field backs onto it, we very seldom hear them and it is silent during the holidays, our road traffic noise is far worse.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Jan
thankyou for your contribution we will haVE to agree to disagree
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I agree with Jan. I grew up on RAF and USAF bases and you soon get used to the noise. Nowadays some idiot on a very noisy motorcycle is more obtrusive, I find. The elephant in the room on the Manston issue is the fear people have about the effect on the value of their houses.
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#64, I intended no sarcasm - I genuinely meant simply that you chose, as others did, to live where it suited you best. People chose to live near an airport.........
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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but as i say bern i can choose not to live near a rail line
but cant control the sky movements
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
the noise of low flying dose not bother me in the slightest,wheater its civel or millitry.the later flys so low you can wave at the pilot and he/she will wave back.
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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This move by Thanet D Council does puzzle me.
Getting funding and consequently opening the Turner Centre, against many objections from local people was nothing less than amazing.
Practically no one wanted it in Margate but they did it and because it has opened, the bigger and better funding options have also opened for Margate.
Margate will be re-juvinated over the next few years, in ten years' time Margate will be thriving once again.
I would think that Dover D Council wants the sky lift in Dover, for much the same reason.
Although you cannot compare the Turner Centre with a Sky Lift. But it would have the same effect for Dover, investors/funders need a catalyst, a vision, to work on
Losing Manston Airport, will be very detrimental to all the projects in Kent, as it could be the Catalyst for Kent's future.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
couldn't agree more gary, potential investors want to spend money on a town that is looking ahead.
i could never understand the objections to the turner gallery.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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howard;
although i wouldnt atend the turner centre through choice, it has shown to be doing well.
brian, rather a selfiish view?
well looks to be another saga at manston that will go on and on
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Similar Nimbyism to the airport I would guess, underpinned by a resistance to any change at all. I don't really get it - we have had several blocks of flats built near us recently and had the opportunity to object, but why would we? We have lost a little bit of the lovely view we had over the hills, but not all of it, and people have to live somewhere! The buildings are not too ugly, and will be part of the rejuvenation process. Parking will be a bit worse, and schools will have to adapt, and so on, but life goes on!!! Change, if it is developmental, is a good thing.
Why is Brian being selfish for not having an objection to something? #73
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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not really kieth,a differance of opinion maybe.but never selfish.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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brian
difference of opinion, okay i go wih that
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Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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Howard.
I was one of those objectors, I could not see why £millions, to me, was being wasted on something that only a few would be interested in.
But I see the bigger picture now.
Those who objected to it will probably never go to the Turner Museum. But they will visit Margate many times in the future because of it and benefit from Margate's resurgence.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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but the bigger picture garyc(whilst im no great supporter of turner centre) to be fair to them, visitor figures are higher than expected
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Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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Keith.
Yes, your right and of course that figure will grow along with the growth of Margate.
Which is why it is important for Dover, to put in place, now, similar plans to attract funding and investors.
Timing is now the crucial factor for Dover, if Dover Docks is sold off ,without the future of Dover being intrinsically built into the deal and if the Cruise Companies, decide to move elsewhere, which looms every year, combined, would be devastating to Dover/Deal.
Dover needs a plan to put itself out there, with its own Turner like project, for the future.
Now, not later.
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