Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,018
Such a shame .These new builds are ugly.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,806
We may not like the look of them as they are ugly boxes but I am sure they will be more practical for all who have to use them.
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Martyn Webster- Registered: 18 Nov 2017
- Posts: 56
After little more than a one hour session on the subject yesterday KCC's planning applications committee decided to grant permission to demolish the existing school buildings and construct the replacement on the top playing field SUBJECT to Historic England determining that the existing school buildings are not of listable quality.The committee of ten councillors voted 8 in favour,1 against with 1 abstention.A determination by Historic England was said not to be expected until near Christmas or just afterwards.It is to be noted that none of the voting councillors represented Dover nor, evidently, had they themselves actually visited the school buildings and viewed them from near and afar.No photograph of the existing school appeared in the report itself and none of those displayed on a screen in the session chamber depicted the building from any good angle.One of the more choice comments was "It is time to pull a shroud over its face".And thus was the matter done in detachment in Maidstone.But there may be more to it yet.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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Martyn Webster- Registered: 18 Nov 2017
- Posts: 56
It would seem that Historic England have now judged the DGSB's buildings not to have any listable qualities.Last minute bids to list the building and an online petition with just over 700 signatures seem also to be on track for doomed failure.Well so be it.However a report in the business section of the Daily Telegraph of 16th January 2020 under the headline "Two Years after the fall of Carillion can the industry rebuild itself?" written by Sebastian McCarthy sets a note of caution when it comes to Kier Construction,quote "Kier faces a battle for survival.Investors who held shares in the construction giant 12 months ago have since seen the value of their investment crash by 84 per cent.Andrew Davies,the man who was set to take the top job at Carillion a week after it collapsed,was called in to rescue crisis-hit Kier back in April.Since then,the industry veteran has sought to pay (sic) down the firm's hefty debt mountain by slashing costs and putting its housing division up for sale.It is not just investors that will be hoping a buyer will turn up;officials in Whitehall will be keeping a close eye on Kier's health,given its major presence on projects such as Crossrail and HS2"....and so presumably will KCC!
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,485
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,485
Work has started.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
It is sad to see this great looking building pulled down ,I think a building could be build on the side or at the back of it, and that might cut the cost of it.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
- Posts: 541
The debate and resolution about this building was never going to please everyone. My son is currently attending there and he likes the old place, but even he says it's falling down in places and you only have to go around the school to see that. Thankfully, I've been informed it won't be painted yellow like its neighbour, and personally I can't wait to see my son finish his education in a well equipped 21st century school.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,860
That's the problem
The cost of repair Inna short term solution or attempting to rebuild within the cost would be high
It certainly needed a lot of attention .
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Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
- Posts: 541
Did anyone book a place to have a look today at DGSB?
I understand it was very well attended with over 1000 people during the day, which is great community engagement for such an important part of Dover life.
TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 345
Karlos wrote:Work has started.
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"Get Off My Cricket Square!".
Anyone?
I'll get my coat.
"Forgot your coat? Then do it in your underwear boy".
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Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
- Posts: 450
I see my old engineering teacher from my time there, from 1972 till 1978, Mr Smith opened the new school. Great teacher.
TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 345
Gary39 wrote:I see my old engineering teacher from my time there, from 1972 till 1978, Mr Smith opened the new school. Great teacher.
Triggered.
If you mean Metal Head Smith, then I hate to disappoint you, but I always thought he was a bit of a bullying ****.
"I will take you into my study and I will beat you boy", was his catchphrase for the slightest misdemeanour.
That bloke was THE reason I decided not to stay on and take A levels, after constantly being threatened by him with
not being allowed to stay on and take A levels 
. I may have ended up at university about a decade earlier (when it was still free) if it wasn't for that deeply inadequate man (which could be said for a lot of them).
Bullying little kids. I mean really. Wouldn't get away with what I experienced and witnessed there these days.
Yes I am still bitter.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,806
Although I can not comment on any particular teacher, my academic minded son absolutely hated the whole time he was there. Like TWD he left before taking his A levels and instead made positive use of the Open University , he always called the school the Prison.
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Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
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I can't comment on the old DGSB as I am an Old Langtonian (and hated every minute of it!) but this will be a new beginning and hopefully take lots of boys (and girls in the 6th form) from a deprived area like Dover and give them a chance to go onto bigger and better things
My son loves the old / new school but the teachers are not anywhere near what I, and others here, endured and remember from back in the 70s / 80s. Although some have good memories, once it is demolished, those demons can hopefully be buried.
(Simon Langton wasn't much better, although I stayed for A levels, the two "U"s I got were not much help in my later life!)
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,860
Although I understand why, it's another building gone
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