howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The last I heard they were putting a second bid in for funding to improve the Market Square area but don't seem to have a website anymore and their last posting on Facebook was over a year ago. Does anyone know if they have packed up?
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Sadly a lot of people's views are that a few Dover groups are inter linked
Certainly from comments iv seen on here from some of there members I wouldn't encourage any one to attend
Although it was quite recently they had a meetung
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Why can’t they design comfortable seats.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#5
I hope some of the seats have backs and armrests for the disabled and elderly, even though they are nice looking I would need help getting up if I was to sit on one of those illustrated.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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on the group
looking at the aggressive postings in the past I for one wouldn't attend meetings
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Guest 712- Registered: 5 Mar 2011
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Hi Sue, the seating design is not as per the drawings and Jan, the seats will have backs. A number of design changes were made after the last consultation in response to the feedback that came in from people who stopped by the library, talked to us all, and filled in the feedback forms. Not all of the artists impressions have been updated to reflect those changes, although the technical drawings and technical specifications have been.
Hi Keith, perhaps sometimes some comments on here may have been a bit waspish. However, meetings chaired by the affable John Angell are always open and friendly.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Well Neil
Thanks for the reply those making those comments haven't inspired people to attend
Just saying
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#9
Thanks Neil for updating us reach seats.Yes Mr Angel very nice man.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Dover Coastal Community Team seem very ambitious going by their website but their last meeting was over two years ago.
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 350
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Another example of a collection of obscure groups of people thinking they represent Dover. I am not quite sure how we are suppose to have our say when the proposals are not even up to date. No chance of the Coastal Communities Fund taking this application seriously.
Everything we are told that is good for us seems to somehow trail back to Neil Wiggins who I am told doesn't even live in Dover.
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,087
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Dover Pilot, the proposals are up to date, just some of the artists impressions have not been changed. There is a pre-bid cost element to all of this and a not insignificant sum has been spent on various pre-bid preparations both this time round and when the scheme got through to the second stage 2yrs ago. The modified proposal has, against multiple applications from around the UK, made it through to the second application stage - a clear indication that the CCF is in fact taking it seriously. There is a public consultation ongoing, or soon to open, in the library and a gazebo will be in the Market Square next week-end during the lights switch on where we can hope that as many people as possible will take the time to provide feedback. All feedback is welcome and as much as possible will be incorporated into the final design and build.
Whilst I am quite active within one or two projects which are intended to be of benefit to our town, it would not be correct, or fair to all the other people who work hard to support the town and get positive change for everyone who lives in or uses it, to say that everything trails back to me.
As to where I live, in Eythorne, I fail to see the issue. Dover has been my home town since I was born, I do almost all my shopping in the town, as in Dover Town Centre, Market Square, Canon Street, Biggin Street, High Street and London Road. I enjoy our history and heritage in the town centre, I use our Dover Town restaurants and pubs - including what is available on the seafront - all my kids have been, aside from primary school, educated in Dover and, as a family, we enjoy the Silver Screen Cinema from time to time. I was a teenager in Dover in the early 1980s and, as a younger person, spent many an hour exploring the Western Heights and various tunnels from the old Eye Hospital, from under East Cliff and around the Heights on both sides of Dover.
I remember Dover as a busier, more vibrant place to be back then and try to do my best to work towards bringing vibrancy back to its heart and increase opportunity for all who live in, use, or just visit the town. I know that if I were not involved, then others would still be committed to doing and delivering, but not being involved and not helping to achieve a better future for everyone, including my own children and grand children, is not the best way to achieve such a future.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Dover Pilot wrote:Another example of a collection of obscure groups of people thinking they represent Dover..
Yes there is more than one group but from what I understand they liaise and try to work together.
Neil along with Ross has worked for the benefit of Dover for a long time, for all I know better and longer than some of our more official representatives.
Maybe Dover Pilot has done the same, he or she might have done but being anonymous I do not know so can not congratulate him/her.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Jan
I'm aware of a number of volunteer groups that do a lot for the area and Dover
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