howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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a surprise to see this today they were doing a through job of clearing the vegetation on the pavement from citadel road down to the fortification opposite drop redoubt road.
other clearances have been taking place over the last week or so.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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I wish somebody would clear all the branches and greenery obstructing the pavement along Salisbury Road.
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Always good to see that Howard. Perhaps the recent publicity has helped draw attention to it.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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All looking spick and span
Good to see those pix Howard.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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i suspect paul may be right about recent publicity having an effect.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Nah, is a normal job, just like the grass cutting of the verges that is done a couple of times every year
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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It's brilliant that something is being done up on the heights. It's a shame, however, that the beach is the most disgusting pig sty and the worst I have ever seen it. Over the past two days it has become the town dump. I'm speechless every time I walk down there. A couple of broken litter bins on the beach itself screwed to a stick which probably wouldn't be used anyway by the animals who leave bottles, barbecues, fast food wrappers and other rubbish. Whatever bins there are are overflowing and scavenged by the vermin gull population. Are the bin people on strike?
Those who insist the beach is generally tidy do not use it.
Absolutely foul.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
Jan - you can ask your District Councillor to contact Kent Highways and ask them to contact the owners of the offending front gardens and clear the over-growth; the owners will be given a short period in which to cut it back, after that time, KCC will do it and charge them and it will cost the owner a lot more than if they did it themselves.
The email address I use (and get replies from) is
kenthighwayservices@kent.gov.uk
If you'd like to email me the addresses of the offending properties, I'll write to them
Roger
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Thank you very much Roger but I was just having a rant.
This is an ongoing problem every year with two of them, the old Post Office site just round the corner from Frith Road and the scrub land near the top of Albert Road, plus a couple of other smaller but irritating shrubs.
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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O.K. Jan - we all have to have a rant now and again.
The front garden of the house on the corner of Frith Road and Salisbury Road (it's two flats - the upper flat has the front garden, the lower flat has the back garden) has a wall that looks like it will fall over any time now and the trees and shrubs are very overgrown and need cutting back.
Perhaps I'll email Kent Highways about that one.
Roger
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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I think there must be new tenants in that one as the front garden gave the impression of being well cared for.
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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When I came past there yesterday morning from the hospital, the front-garden, hedge and wall looked the same Jan.
Roger
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Sorry I meant since last summer.
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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O.K. Jan - it needs tidying up now really, that wall could seriously hurt someone.
Roger
