Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Agree.Agree.I think our County members were inspecting the seats /Parklets yesterday .
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Pablo wrote:I’d prefer the money was spent on some decent public toilets.
Absolutely - much more in keeping with catering for visitors, young and old. A public convenience in every car park, say.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,876
Button wrote:Absolutely - much more in keeping with catering for visitors, young and old. A public convenience in every car park, say.
I wonder what happened to the new public toilets planned in Health Centre car park, I guess the money was wasted on something like that awful new plastic seating.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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No a disagreement with DTC and DDC
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,920
Blimey £90,000
What we could have put that towards
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,066
More 'parklets' being thrown down near Iceland this morning.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 438
I wonder what the bill will be for removing them, which seems inevitable since they seem to be universally hated?
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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When they take them away ,at the same time take down the very old flags and bin them been up there years and look it.
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,817
90,000? i could have knocked something together out of some old pallets for a few hundred.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
It's the end of the financial year and I suspect that someone had some money left over and had to use it.
Terry
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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Not so. The money comes from the government's 'active travel fund' (i.e. loads of dosh for local authorities to force the government's 'green' fanaticism on us), announced in May 2020. KCC received £1.6m in the phase 1 allocation and, having successfully wasted that on various mainly unwelcome schemes, earned itself another £6.1m in November's phase 2 allocation.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/emergency-active-travel-fund-local-transport-authority-allocationsCaptain Haddock likes this
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Weird Granny Slater wrote: KCC... earned itself another £6.1m in November's phase 2 allocation.
There you go then - plenty for a whole raft of public loos.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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Only if you can convince KCC that a) using a public convenience falls within the category 'active travel'* and b) it can recycle human excreta to make 'parklets'.
*I doubt 'running to the loo' qualifies as 'active travel'.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,056
I'd find a loo of much more benefit than a parklet - seriously.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Still waiting for our two county councillors to give a view on why they supported it
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Pauline has written on another site .
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,876
Sue Nicholas wrote:Pauline has written on another site .
That is not much help to those who do not know which site or what was written.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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River community Page
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
It’s on her face. Book page .
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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I’m sure someone like Bob will copy and paste .