Guest 718- Registered: 28 Jun 2011
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Looking at Ed's posting of the former St. Columba Church reminded me that both the church and Westmount suffered fires within 24 hrs. of each other in Sept. 2007. As far as I can tell the last news on Westmount was that applications for development were expected back in Feb/March. Does anyone have any updates?
I found this site which has some surprisingly good pictures of the interior of the derelict building.
http://www.desertionphotography.co.uk/apps/blog/show/6328909-westmount-college-dover-march-2011
Here's one of the fire and another taken from the Heights on Tuesday.
Keith Sansum1
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sad that fire at westmount
was (is) a nice building
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i remember the day of the westmount fire very clearly, came out of my front door that morning to see the flames.
i thought the planning application for conversion to flats had gone through, probably roger would be the person to confirm that.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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it has
but the problem now is
added to it is the planning dept 106 agreement
where whoever buys it should DONATE if that's the correct term) lol
monies towards a priory play area
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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do we know the amount involved?
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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figures have varied from £20,000 to £200,000
but its what you can get out of a develioper who has NO OBLIGATION to give a farthing if he/she doesn't want to
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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even if the money was paid there would still be the problem of finding a location.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Although maybe its time to revisit areas declined before such as the one by vale view school
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Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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After all this time maybe the need outways the location?
