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I've checked back a bit on the earlier postings but couldn't find a thread for this (might need new glasses!) so apologies if this subject has been done to death elswhere.
As most of you know, for the last 27 months I have been living and working in Nigeria. Before I left in 2007 there was approval for the ASDA development, and we'd successfully fought off turning Connaught barracks into a prison. I'm now back from my warm and sunny sojourn to find pretty much nothing has happened to either location.
There is still talk, something politicians do very well, but no action in getting a hospital for Dover & District. Suggestions of re-using Buckland come from the group that can clearly be labelled "living in the past". We've seen a succession of lorries whacking the bridge over the only road in, and the ensuing mayhem and inconvenience. Some have suggested using the abysmal premises in Maison Dieu, obviously because they have a desire to go to a 1950's building where they can enjoy the feel of post war modernity.
And yet, as someone rightfully pointed out, the hospital will be for the district, and therefore a town centre location would so obviously not be sensible or practical. Add to that the impending arrival of thousands of new Whitfield residents (shock horror, fresh life in the town) and it seems almost too obvious a solution to convert the Connaught Barracks into the new hospital.
I'd be interested to hear reasons why this cannot be done, after all, nothing else is happening up there.
