Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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10 August 2009
06:4226931Yesterday I viewed again the big screen, lots of local events on there, and being watched by others.
Usual national stuff as well.
I know theres some young adults 18, going down to watch the footy when its live on that screen, so some like it.
I saw no evidence of anyone wanting to damage it, cause problems etc.
What do others think
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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10 August 2009
07:2026938I think it will become just an accepted part of the Market Square.
I would like to see the Square turned into an Italian/Spanish/French piazza type of area with seats all around it; people would watch the TV, relax and watch the world go by - I'm sure all the businesses round that area and in Cannon Street etc. would benefit enormously.
There'd need to be co-operation from DDC too of course.
Roger
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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10 August 2009
07:2126939Can see some sticking points there, and with locals
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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10 August 2009
07:2826943Of course there will be sticking points Keith, but nothing is insurmountable if there's a will and a "can-do" attitide.
Roger
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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10 August 2009
07:3626947We are talking DDC here lol
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
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10 August 2009
11:1626952Good positive stuff as ever, Roger. Thank God there are people like you on the ball.
Antidotes to the dreary, bean-counting, jargon-junky, imagination-free dead hands on the Dover district tiller. Keep it up, people.
Allez Douvres! Forza Dubris!
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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10 August 2009
13:2326958Amen to that. Roger.
A continental style chillout zone is what we need, rather than the aggressive drunken bearpit that it becomes in the evening. A better environment will attract a better type of person and the riff raff will move somewhere worse.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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10 August 2009
14:4126961so its gone from being a tv to a big screen,it does seem to been acepted now.a eouropean style square or piazza would be nice if both councils go for it.
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
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10 August 2009
16:4526965"both councils" - love it, Brian. Unwittingly hilarious. Like a town our size really needs two councils, I ask you! Just the one functioning one would be quite good enough.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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10 August 2009
19:0726970it never was a tv, what sort of living room could fit it in?
just a term of abuse by those opposed to change in our town.
the screen continues to pump out useful local information.
all the events at the museum and library are clearly shown and information on whinless down and the western heights
is highlighted.
10 August 2009
19:4926971It's good! It offers a way to build up the square, people do watch it (I have seen them!), and it isn't supposed to be an all day attraction, just a sometime attraction with exceptions during big events. No-one has broken it, it isn't an eysore, it isn't too loud. Result!!
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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10 August 2009
20:0926972howard,i got two that size in my kitchen,one at either end, as for the one in my living room.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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11 August 2009
08:0526979I think it fits well in the Market Square and yes, it would be great to have more leisure establishments there, of all types, with people sitting out in the fresh air day and night. It might just recapture the Square from the nigttime yobs, slobs and tarts.
Councils dont do that though, except by favouring and making it easy in Planning rules. The rest would be up to businesses to come forward and properties to beoome vacant and ready for conversion, though there are a few already and until they are occupied and by the right businesses, pie in the sky.
DT1- Location: Dover
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11 August 2009
10:5626986I sat down in front of the viewing screen this morning and enjoyed a croissant with my daughter. Watched a bit of music and saw a full diary of events happening. It is a good device for promoting the town and events. I really can't see any negatives (although I would have personally prefered it in the park!)
However I will say although it may, in time, attract a few more leisure establishments to the market square it will never do much to improve the urban quality of the market square. Dover market square will never be like a piazza and even does a fairly poor job at being a market square. I had some friends stay at the weekend and we took a stroll down to the regatta to clear our heads. They pointed out the lack of place provided by the market square, and lets face it, it doesn't really have the feel of a market square....it merely possesses that title. They also remarked on the absolute lack of dialogue between the seafront and town, something we are all aware of. They then concluded that Dover planning department must be a little questionable in competence, using the Woolworths building as a good descriptor of this!
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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11 August 2009
12:0426988DT1 - The probems of the seafront and town being cut off is indeed a serious one. The disconnection is a result of the A20 extension to the town and the fault of the Dept Transport at the time. This was known and ideas, such as tunnelling and an alternative route (to join with the widened A2 at Lydden) were put forward. The alternative route was not a runner really, but if the tunnelling was accepted our seafront and the port would look very different today, but it was considered too costly. So not DDC's planners fault. These main through routes are not determined by local authorities.
DT1- Location: Dover
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11 August 2009
12:2126989Yes I appreciate (as they did) that the A20 is not the fault of the Planners, just the rest!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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11 August 2009
17:3426994at the weekend free buses ran every half an hour between the station, town centre and seafront.
i do not know who paid for this.
pity there is not a service during the summer months from stagecoach.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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11 August 2009
17:3426995at the weekend free buses ran every half an hour between the station, town centre and seafront.
i do not know who paid for this.
pity there is not a service during the summer months from stagecoach.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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11 August 2009
17:3426996at the weekend free buses ran every half an hour between the station, town centre and seafront.
i do not know who paid for this.
pity there is not a service during the summer months from stagecoach.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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11 August 2009
21:4727003Typical, you wait hours for a bus then 3 come at once!
