Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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Don't give people the wrong impression about my miner's cottage, Sue, with its view of the closed down pit
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
The cost of the pumping of water all the way up there will be high.
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Napchester Road today. Ground floor juliet balcony anyone?
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
Someone said we need all this housing
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,097
And following the 5000 homes, the next area to be built on (extending to approximately 433.6 acres) will be?
https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gblhralar220013"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 438
That explains why so many of the flats on Waldershare park are up for sale!
Matey
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
- Posts: 178
Well, here's another lot! Leaflet just dropped through our door. We have lived in Whitfield for forty years, time to move on I think, it's going to get bigger then Dover itself!
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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'to meet Dover's housing needs' my arse!
Just look at the figures. There are hundreds more dying every year than being born in the district. What housing 'needs'?
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Captain Haddock wrote:'to meet Dover's housing needs' my arse!
Just look at the figures. There are hundreds more dying every year than being born in the district. What housing 'needs'?
Totally agree, although I think the appropriate comparison is between deaths now and births twenty to thirty years ago. Note also the absence of access roads around the site, although I daresay that there's nothing that can't be solved with a good bulldozer and that it's only a matter of time before Whitfield becomes a suburb of Ashford.
See post 44 for a view of Napchester Road before it was truncated.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Just to compare current birth rates and death rates is facile. People move in and out of conurbations according to many different factors, far too numerous to list here. DDC's housing policy has been under a lot of scrutiny in recent years and has become a lot more pragmatic IMHO. Let's see how the new administration fares.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
Captain Haddock wrote:'to meet Dover's housing needs' my arse!
Just look at the figures. There are hundreds more dying every year than being born in the district. What housing 'needs'?
I think we all know the Captain's view on this subject going by the number of times he has used the above argument.
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Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 346
If the developers really are building to meet Dover's housing needs then I presume they will all be affordable housing to clear the districts waiting list
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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As Prof Joad would say ' it depends what you mean by affordable '.
There's at least half a dozen different definitions used by HMG, Shelter etc plus the most important one used by developers who will only build saleable houses which someone can 'afford'.
The expression is nice and warm and cuddly and shows you care but is to all extent totally meaningless.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
Your not coming back into a socialist world bob?
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