howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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a quick straw poll.
a) this is true and dover port are simply wonderful.
b) just another ploy to derail the peoples port bandwagon.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Lovely buildings that should be easy to 'sell' for a new purpose plus looks like the estate agents signs have gone too. It would be great to see them back in use
Been nice knowing you :)
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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plan b,i reckon,
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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On reflection, a) might be the answer, but b) could reflect the playing open cards policy.
Neil has mentioned Cambridge Terrace on this Forum in response to a question of yours, Howard, not long ago.
So DHB may have come across the topic and decided to do something, preemptive campaign so to say.
In my representation sent last week ..... no! I'll keep it quiet, no open cards here.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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c) they're suffering subsidence and have to be demolished
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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you're such a cynic ray, you were never like that before you joined the cowpats.
paul
i think you are being optimistic there someone would have been in before otherwise.
yes they are beautiful but i shudder to think of the damage to the fabric after such neglect.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Howard, not a cynic, just repeating something I've been told!
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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This is disgraceful, these beautiful buildings should never be neglected to this extent, they are an eyesore now. When my family were over from Ireland recently they couldn't believe that this was allowed to happen. The last time they were over here they admired how lovely they were
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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Can't help but notice that it says 'coming soon'. How soon? Will it be as 'soon' as the development at Buckland Paper Mill was coming when it arrived so soon that they had to keep replacing the 'coming soon' notices because that development came so 'soon' that the notices wore out and fell off waiting for it?
Guest 648- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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There was a hold up with the finances for Buckland Mill ,however it is coming on very nicely .
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
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As a realist/world-weary Dovorian, I veer towards the 'cynical ploy' school of thought here myself, where the Cambridge Terrace guff is concerned.
Seems to reek with an all-pervading stench of corporate desperation (desperation for the glorious day of mega-moolah, perhaps?), similar to the pong permeating from every page of that immediately-binned glossy propaganda missive foisted on the good people of 01304 country recently.
We've seen it all before or, rather, haven't seen ANYTHING tangible...just tattered 'coming soon' signs at Buckland Mill for several millennia and the open public sore that still is DTIZ, promising 'jam tomorrow' for numerous decades while the local populace are told to be patient like good little obedient patsies.
Once again, I would love to be proved wrong.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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"Enormous polyurethane squirrels". Andrew, are making sure Burlington Hotel doesn't come down
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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Hi Sue, I recognise that there were problems over Buckland and that work is now proceeding. However, the choice of wording on successive development advertisements has, unfortunately for those who worked hard to get it through, become a by-word and symbol for Delays to Dover projects.
Buckland is a very good example of how long it can take for 'soon' to arrive. The signs on Cambridge Terrace were put up as a last minute rush job just before the torch arrived in town (and I mean just) and because 'soon' is an indeterminate amount of time in the future which always starts counting down from tomorrow, I was just wondering aloud if DHB meant 'soon' in the Buckland sense or 'soon' in a real sense.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the more i think about it the more plausible is ray's snout becoming, the only exciting thing that could happen there would be a collapse.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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or catch fire accidently.
Guest 708- Registered: 22 Dec 2010
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My wife and I walk pass their this morning. Whats hiding behind that wording
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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hands up all those who believe that something will actually happen here.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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whilst dovorians expect nothing to happen
we should(must)all live in hope
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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looks like a p.r. scam keith, d.h.b committed to making the town look better.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Would be nice that section of Cambridge Terrace really needs a makeover Big Time, I wonder who will be moving in
