Guest 761- Registered: 10 Jul 2012
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Sorry if I am stating the obvious but the site board in post #24 says the main contractor is REDEC who are an Ashford based decorating firm who do a lot of work for local councils etc - so the work is unlikely to be much more than painting and decorating.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
mike you are correct,exterior decoraters.done my house last year.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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just what the doctor ordered, if not him then one of his cohorts.
looks superb from the outside.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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What a fabulous improvement - well done DHB.
If they do up the insides (flats/apartments ?) as well as the outside, they will be very desirable residencies.
Roger
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,875
They look great, I assume the one on the end has a different owner as it has not been painted.
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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The difference may be Jan. that one is the only one that had a tenant - the Indian restaurant and it would be their responsibility to keep that looking good.
Roger
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes ,and the D.D.C. should have done the same in Folkestone rd.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I'm not sure that DDC own any houses in Folkestone Road Vic. DHB owned the properties in Cambridger Terrace.
They (DDC) are following up on the poor housing stock, with issuing section 215 notices - with the help of the Town Council.
Roger
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Yeah well they (DDC) should get their own house in order before they start threatening others with legal action.
I look at DDC land which has plants in it 6 feet high and smashed up fences, thats the sort of example they set.
Incidentally well done DHB it looks great, lets hope they become really nice flats to attract the right type od people to the town.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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They pass the plans .
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Sorry Vic not with you
Guest 868- Registered: 25 Jan 2013
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Vic doesn't like that DDC gave permission to turn Folkestone Road buildings into flats
You only need to look back a few decades and old censuses and directories that houses such as these were already homes for multiple families, so I can't see the difference, in fact Vic himself probably did just the same thing. They just have their own doorbells these days
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i'm fairly certain that absolutely nothing has been done to the interiors and i would imagine that there are signs of serious neglect there.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Part of Folkestone rd is now all flats and some not all have not been done very well,+The public that were living up there did not want them in the first place but D.D.C. passed all the plans for it to be turned in what we see now,they were good family homes but now most are one bedroom flats. And because of all this the very good Dover College we have up there are not happy about it and I can understand why,it is going back two or more years now that they were talking about pulling out of Dover over this issue,I must say I do not know if that is the case today.But if the housing had been done in the way the D.H.B. has done it ,that would not have happen.But we are where we are and what will be ,will be.D.D.C PLanning dept needs new blood they have done more damage to Dover then the bombing done in the war.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Having experienced the so called planners in many wards i can see the above point, it doesnt just affect priory
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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When you see how beautiful the buildings are it makes you wonder what they were like in their heyday, not as smart as these pictures I bet
It would be interesting to see what they looked like when they were family houses.
Guest 868- Registered: 25 Jan 2013
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There is a nice picture in the Dover Then and Now book:)
Guest 868- Registered: 25 Jan 2013
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Guest 868- Registered: 25 Jan 2013
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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on the subject of planning and folkestone road there is an equivalent most towns and city suburbs around the country. the thing
i have noticed generally is that the houses nearer to the shops/town centre are coverted cheaply into bedsits and tiny flats, whilst the further away you go the houses tend to stay the same.
i believe that planning laws decreed that councils had to accept planning applications for the conversions.
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