howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
Can't find the original thread but it must be 8 years since the fire destroyed a large part of the building. About 2 or 3 years ago some skips were placed in the front and debris removed and there was at least one application to renovate it, one rather ironically was from a church group.
Does anyone have any knowledge on the former church's future?
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#2
It was sold at auction recently.
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Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,709
#3
To a London based property developer for almost £170k
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#4
Over one year on and no sign of a planning application, seems rather a lot of money being tied up doing nothing.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#5
Top Tip - Buy land. (Apparently they are not manufacturing it any more)
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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#6
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/former-church-on-market-for-250-000-261133/
It is now back on the market, with a new guide price of £250,000, having not sold last year.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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#7
It's nice that a thread started by OUR Howard is still remembered today .
.Shame though the site remains the same
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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#8
Noticed the church being worked on. Let's hope there's not another fire...
Karlos- Location: Dover
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#9
16 flats going in according to the planning application.
Weird Granny Slater
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#10
I think it's probably best, in that case, that we stop calling it a church.
The only god that'll be worshipped there is the single life.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#11
It has not been a church to worship in. for years but it is still a church shaped building so it will probably always be known as a church. Such a shame when it caught fire following the last conversion.
I was working in the Age Concern shop and remember seeing the small puff of smoke quickly develop into a raging inferno, such a shame for all those who did the conversion as well as those who had already chosen their new home.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#12
As a building is was quite nice
But like other such buildings people attending declined
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