The first 74homes for Whitfield phase 1A
- Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
8 May 2014 21:17265856That is part of the problem Howard the district is much to spread out and each area is very different, there is no or very little comparison between Dover and in general terms the more affluent Deal and Sandwich.
Welcome Jack
, we are a friendly bunch even though we might have our little squabbles like any 'family'. 
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 8 May 2014 21:48265861I'm no expert, but surely the landlord of the building currently occupied by M&S shouldn't have too many problems in marketing a property that has served the current tenant well for over 100 years. I am sure there are plenty of retailers who would be interested in its prime location, close to the town's bus terminus, etc. I would have thought it's all down to the marketing.
- 8 May 2014 21:54265863I agree Kevin, but it has lots of asbestos, so any changes to the building for a new tenant, will have to have the asbestos removed.
Roger - 14 September 2014 17:28272148All rather unpleasant for Whitfield residents.
http://www.dover-express.co.uk/Developer-water-firm-deadlock-sewage-flood/story-22911013-detail/story.html - 21 October 2014 12:04273518No real surprise here happens all the time.
http://www.dover-express.co.uk/Developer-pulls-social-housing-deal/story-23297393-detail/story.html - 22 October 2014 08:55273543If it means less houses being, heartbreakingly, plonked on our beautiful farm, Lenacre Court at Whitfield, then all to the good. Having spent the early years of my life there I feel a very personal connection to the land, and will never be reconciled to what DDC is doing. I feel I want to move away from Dover and never come back rather than look at this abomination and will never forgive anyone responsible, at either local or national level.
Andrew Stucken-Broadley - 25 March 2016 19:55312370Won't be much green belt left up there before long.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/work-begins-on-new-8m-93143/ - 26 March 2016 00:27312375Mr Stucken you and me both I was born in Dover all my family moved away over the years or died here it is very upsetting in seeing the way it has turned out +all the rubbish that never gets cleared up .And I think it will not be to long before it is our turn to move on but very sad.
- Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,137
26 March 2016 09:39312376AND an application for 4000 'much needed' (sic) homes South of Canterbury!
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/citys-biggest-ever-planning-application-93170/
I'm off today to take photographs of the 'countryside' so I can show my grandchildren what England used to look like in the days before the Dover met Canterbury somewhere around Aylesham ......"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 26 March 2016 10:55312377When I first read about the plans a while back I didn't think it would ever reach the "application stage" as it would turn a beautiful city into yet another urban sprawl like Milton Keynes. However we have been told that the hospital will be closed some time in the future and a new one built in the area discussed here. The plans mention the possibility of land being made available for one which sounds like the carrot that will induce the City Council to pass the scheme.
- Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,137
26 March 2016 11:22312378Howard,
'like Milton Keynes' would not be too bad.
For all it's downside, in MK, urban planners were faced with a 'tabla rasa' and there has been an uber-plan to extend Corbusier's concept of a building being a 'machine for living in' to a town doing the same.
'Neighbourhoods' have been in-built even if they are 'zones' and connectivity between residents and services prioritised. I've been there. I wouldn't want to live there. However it 'works'.
In MK developers have built within a long term and logical local plan which envisaged what and where any expansion would be decades ago.
Locally all development is being pushed by house builders who don't give a toss whether the built environment 'works' for residents, merely whether the 'units' will sell.
In passing, whilst we all are looking forward to the DTIZ development transforming Dover's economy beyond recognition,with its one shed showing movies, another selling M&S sandwiches and surrounding outlets offering various forms of starch-and-slurry, I note that the Architect Patrick Hodgkinson has died.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/mar/08/patrick-hodgkinson-obituary
If only we'd had the equivalent of the Brunswick Center with its mixture of social housing and retail going up in Dover THAT would have my full support, but unfortunately there's no way that such visionary work would get past our myopic planners with their somewhat limited vision of the future or what modern architectural practice is capable of if let off the leash."We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 26 March 2016 19:10312387One important thing missing from those plans for Canterbury is an eastern relief road to take traffic from the A2 to the A257.Lew Finnis