howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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12 January 2011
14:0888667#1
picture taken this morning, there is a notice pinned to the building dated 22/10/10 saying that it would be demolished 22/11/10.
looks like someone has forgotten.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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12 January 2011
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12 January 2011
14:4388669#3
Tenders for demolition in and I understand demolition could be within 2-3 weeks.
Watty
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12 January 2011
14:4688671#4
So Mr Watkins ,are going to see a fence around it like the old bus depot.?
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12 January 2011
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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12 January 2011
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People complain about no progress, but the removal of buildings in preparation is better than nowt....
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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12 January 2011
16:1088676#7
Paul in preparation a very good word but in Dover at this time means nothing,it will be a fence in five years time ,We have seen and still are seeing fencing going up around sites,but not even one brick repaced in any of the sites,on the last one down there we saw Cllr Coller and rest of them hard hats on in the old bus depot ,all saying Dover moves on as from today.
Howard will you please put up the photo of them doing this please they had all their photos in the local papers to. I bet they will not be doing that this time round,and what has happen from that day and years before that ,one word sums it all up Nothing.
Dover let me tell you now looks worse then after the bombing of the last war and it only took till the end of the 1940s to see dover back up and running with all the shops back open rebuilds were done and the town was great once again,but from the 1970s it has gone backwards and backwards,it has taken 40years of backward movements to end up worse off then we was just after the war.
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12 January 2011
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I'd much rather have empty sites looking better for prospective investors without them worrying about getting rid of what is there, issues with compulory purchases, than this....
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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12 January 2011
16:3288680#9
it will have to be paul to dig that one out vic, i do not have a copy, i seem to remember the picture was taken on a february day either 2 or 3 years ago.
soon after that the archeo,arke, archo - people that dig holes came down and done some drilling.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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12 January 2011
16:4788683#10
We do tend to go round and round in circles on this...
Certain people thinks that it is all the planning departments fault that Dover is struggling to regenerated (and ignoring mistakes that may have been made in the 1950s-1990s which is now over 20 years ago) but I cannot see the queue of companies knocking on Dover's door wanting to spend money here.
The one 'company' that does want to invest millions in Dover and may be key to the regeneration is DHB and all people want to do it stop their plans......
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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12 January 2011
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Vic have broken your post above into paragraphs so that people can read it easier..always best to stick in a paragraph or two for easy consumption the other end...its easier for the reader in other words.
Yes I do remember the pictures of Nigel in his hard hat sitting on the tractor. I was there on the spot as the old bus garage came heaving down.
I will have a stab at finding it later, its in there somewhere amongst the many thousands of pictures.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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12 January 2011
17:2188692#12
Thanks for that Paul.you know me by now,head down and away we go.
Thanks for looking for the photo.
I am in Blakes tonight,I have ameeting at the Dover Castle and I am calling in there after ,I might see some of you down there.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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12 January 2011
17:2488693#13
See you later, Vic, I'll put the coca-cola on ice for you.
Mr Wells, a slight inexactitude in your last post. DHB has not the slightest interest in regenerating Dover. It will be DHB's successor which kick-starts the regeneration.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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12 January 2011
17:3088694#14
Thanks for that Peter,I do not drink anymore but I do like you bar,and hope you and your wife will hand it over to somone just as good as yourselfs but not yet.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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12 January 2011
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Yes here we are with a couple of shots of that man about town Nigel Collor himself...who singlehandly and in fine style demolished the bus garage as you can see in the top picture. It was razed to the ground in a cloud of thunder and dust..
And now below the two councillors mainly involved on the day. Nigel and Frederick Scales....
It was exciting to see the garage come down and I think we all thought at that stage things were moving forward.
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12 January 2011
17:5388700#16
Either way Peter, it is only really the port that can be the catalyst to development
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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12 January 2011
18:0388701#17
Yes, quite. But a change of regime is needed to bring it about.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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12 January 2011
18:2688702#18
paul
re; that pic of the two councillors in hard hats, do you have a date for it?
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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12 January 2011
18:3388704#19
I suppose it's pretty pointless arguing with Paul Watkins not to pull down the Britannia, which represents ols-style British architecture, and bears an honerouble name to our Country.
I never even received a reply from DDC to my representation about the urbanisation projects in Whitfield, although I sent it in time within the consultation period, before the 29 November 2010.
I suppose it's like when DDC pulled down a building near Maison Dieu Road, a lovely white building that now is only an almost empty car-park!
What DDC has to do with democracy? Nothing what so ever!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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12 January 2011
18:3788705#20
it has to come down alex otherwise there can be no regeneration.
is the white building you refer to brook house?
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