Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Sue, of course you are right about all these big stores not fitting into town, and I`ve advocated on other threads about placing any new hospital into Whitfield for the area needed coupled with easier road access, but what I`m hitting out at is the lack of care over the years, like the old market hall in the square shutting, the ex MFI store closing and derelict for far too long, the bus garage demolished recently to create yet another eyesore, there seems to have been no pre-concieved plan for the town over the years other than looking for something else to demolish. I`m trying my best on here to promote the town.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Whatever is going to become of Connaught Barracks? Saved from being turned into a prison, it's destiny appears to be dereliction.
I see this site as almost a ready made hospital site, but others, as usual will tell me why this cannot be so rather than how to make it happen.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
to tell you the truth dover wont be regenerated it will be left to rot then bulldozed to make way for a dhb car/lorry park.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
surely the dtiz site could be used by any potential investor to develop a new large retail outlet?
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
howard,its a good earner as a car park at the mo,it allso has resident squaters in resident [wild life that is,probably find a rare newt there then heaven help us.]
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,247
Howard - the DTIZ is a high risk and expensive development hence the problems encountered. Some businesses are simply better suited for a retail park rather than a town centre.
It would be good to see a response to Sids idea for Connaught Barracks.......
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Needs sorting out now Bern/Sid before it becomes too expensive to renovate, but then again, this is Dover. By the way, who actually owns this at the moment, the MoD?
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,673
Re Connaught Barracks - a couple of weeks or so ago a public consultation was held the HCA who own the site - various bodies were represented such as DDC, EH, Dover Society, press, etc, etc Workshops. site visits, brainstorming, presentations all took place on the afternoon
A very interesting document can be found at:
http://www.dover.gov.uk/pdf/Fort%20Burgoyne%20Conservation%20Management%20Plan%20261109%20email%20version.pdfBeen nice knowing you :)
Thank you for that - interesting document! Read, digested and saved to pc!
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,024
I keep looking up the DDC web site still no current list of planning decisions .
Guest 702- Registered: 9 Jul 2010
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,024
Not the decisions Ken .Im looking for a couple one in River .I want to know the results of last weeks planning applications
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,024
Not the decisions Ken .Im looking for a couple one in River .I want to know the results of last weeks planning applications
Guest 702- Registered: 9 Jul 2010
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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The new Retail Park was passed/approved last Thursday I found out last night.
The approval I believe was (probably) based on information from various surveys from outside our area.
I do also believe that the Town's businesses should have been consulted for their views before any decision was made.
I am on the Planning Committee, but couldn't attend because of my eye being damaged (it's O.K. now by the way), so was extremely disappointed.
A figure of £200,000 has been offered by the developers to smarten up the Town Centre; it will be very interesting to see who (what body) has control over how this money is spent and if it is up for negotiation - I'm sure there are many people on here and all over Dover, who would like to have a say on where £200,000 could be spent.
Perhaps we ought to start suggesting those on here ?
Roger
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
- Posts: 3,391
ROGER;
I do hope your party(in control) does more to keep you informed of such major decisions for Dover town centre.
£200,000 could do so much to help our tired looking town.
Scheme announced on tv tonight, so must be true. Even had an artists impression, of shops! Claiming 120 new jobs too, but obviously not accounting for those lost in the town centre as a result. Even M&S might give up with this announcement .
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
apparently they cannot flog anything that would affect town centre businesses.
i have mixed feelings on the whole thing.
the 200 grand will no doubt be lost in administration costs, i would like the money to be spent on more seating, rubbish bins, flowerd troughs and the balance spent on posting threatening letters to landlords that allow their premises to be run down.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,463
I think,regrettably, that it is too little too late. The Dover death bell was rung as soon as the Mining pits were shut down,then there was the Seamens strike which laid off lots of local workers and the Buckland Mill was closed(no more cheap seconds paper!...lol). What a Bloody shame. The town was thriving when I arrived in 1978 (it's not my fault..honestly).
I am not sure that it can be saved unless it looks to something different and new...have the DDC bid for an Olympic Event?. We have the famous English Channel for some aquaric events?. How about the Archery Tournament? I have no answers but just have concerns that Dover will suffer more today and in the future than it did in the WW2.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
