PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
Vic - here are a few photographs I took today that might bring back a few memories for you.
Wellington Navigation Channel (beach site)
Dock side
Piling work around the 'Prince of Wales' pier and old hoverpad site
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes it does thank you for showing them.
PatrickS- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
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Dover Western Docks Revival progress
Only had my 'phone with me infortunately but they do show the advances in the piling work and the excavation of the Wellington Navigation Channel.
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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It's a hot day and I can't be bothered to Google it or trawl this thread.
When can we look forward to an end to the piledrviing?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Courtesy of DHB.
Piling will be limited to the following times:
Monday to Friday: 8am to 6pm
Saturday: 8am to 2pm
There will be NO piling on Sundays and bank holidays
Signage will be displayed in prominent locations along the seafront promenade advising visitors of the changes to the leisure activities.
Jack Goodhew, General Manager – Special Projects, Port of Dover said: “This is very much a partnership with the local community and Port community stakeholders to ensure we deliver the prize of the longed-for regeneration of Dover whilst providing as much harbour leisure use as possible as we carry out these essential construction works in the short term.”
This initial piling stage will run through to the latter part of 2017.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,864
The continuous piling noise must be so irritating for those who live nearer than myself, I live Charlton Green area and can clearly hear the bang, bang, bang when outside.
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Jack Goodhew, General Manager – Special Projects, Port of Dover said: “This is very much a partnership with the local community and Port community stakeholders to ensure we deliver the prize of the longed-for regeneration of Dover
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The photograph of the Granville Dock, the first photograph.
Will soon be consigned to history.
As this amazing historical Dock and beautiful, private, safe Marina .
Will be a sheet of concrete, fated to be a lorry park.
Mr Jack Goodhew, talks La La land talk.
We sleep walk into it , as usual.
PatrickS- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
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Extent (so far) of piling work and reclamation area to accommodate the DWDR's cargo terminal and new yacht marina and lock cut into the Wellington Dock.
Piling Platform NP476
Dredger 'Kreeft' and spoil barge 'Wadden 1' working alongside the Prince of Wales pier and former hoverpad.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Latest unsubtle propaganda from DHB.
Guest 1305- Registered: 17 Jul 2014
- Posts: 2
I believe that this protest group is damaging the much needed development of the Western Docks. With the cargo ships getting larger it means they will soon be unable to be handled at the Eastern Docks and that business will move to another port. The Goodwin Sands are continually being moved with every tide. The very small amount of material to be used makes no difference to the sands. It seems to me that in these days of social media , people start campaigns and many others jump on the bandwagon with no real interest in the actual subject.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Jeff, I think the problem lies firmly with DHB and their constant rejection of the town and its inhabitants feelings and needs.
I know things have to change and grow but their various "consultations" seem to be DHB want this and will do it regardless of the our opinions, there has to be give and take in negotiations DHB seem to just take.
This results in a complete mistrust of anything they announce be it good or bad for us locals.
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,253
Jeff Leach wrote:I believe that this protest group is damaging the much needed development of the Western Docks. With the cargo ships getting larger it means they will soon be unable to be handled at the Eastern Docks and that business will move to another port. The Goodwin Sands are continually being moved with every tide. The very small amount of material to be used makes no difference to the sands. It seems to me that in these days of social media , people start campaigns and many others jump on the bandwagon with no real interest in the actual subject.
The cargo terminal will still be built Jeff, you'll note there is no mention of that side of the development in the ad.
The leisure side of the development, the part that many dovorians have long believed DHB had no intention of ever doing is the part they are threatening us with.
This seems to be there out!
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,046
Reg,
Almost correct.
DHB has a finite and fixed amount of money for project to be spent on construction and then 'the built environment'. (Making it look nice with seats and piazzas and toilets and fountains and benches and stuff).
If they have to spend a small fortune on unnecessary magnetometer surveys and legal representation to defeat the massed ranks of the mad Luddite luvvies of Deal they will still have to pay for the construction but have a lot less to make it nice leaving the good burghers of Dover to stroll through a semi industrial landscape when they go to wave to me on my yacht.
Fortunately none of this affects the Save our Goodwins crowd as none of them live in Dover and by the time this is built they will have moved on to the latest 'fashionable' cause.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
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"The good burghers of Dover to stroll through a semi industrial landscape when they go to wave to me on my yacht."
Still be far nicer than the stroll down our High st to get to said semi industrial landscape.
Personally i keep mine in sandwich much better breed of wavers
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,864
DHB will also have a contingency budget as do all developers they just do not want to dip into it.
Their business plan should have alternative sources as they should have realised there would be problems with local people would be unhappy.
As an aside I am not one of the "mad Luddite luvvies" I simply believe DHB think they can do what they like, when they like, how they like and damn the consequences to the environment or to anyone else.
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,050
Post 150: at last, an organisation with an unsubtle message - good, I'm fed up with subtlety.
Post 156: no doubt there is a contingency plan - but that may not be a budget, it may be not to continue with those parts that bring in less revenue.
(Not my real name.)
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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Post 157: more to the point it may be not to continue with those parts that bring in NO revenue.
(I'm off for an evening in the cheap seats at Deal Town Council Planning Committee. Grateful for your prayers.)
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 1831- Registered: 1 Sep 2016
- Posts: 395
It would appear
www.deliverfordover.co.uk
Has its head in the sands
More and more people are now signing the SOS Goodwin Sands. Petition.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,911
DHB don't do well on the media front
but then they have been powerful over the years not always in the interests of Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Latest missive from Tim.
Welcome to the latest news from the Gateway to Europe. Nationally and internationally we remain a focal point for one of the biggest issues of the day, Brexit, and the need to ensure the UK’s trading relationship with Europe, our largest trading partner, remains strong. Maintaining fluidity at the Dover Straits to protect and promote UK-European land-based trade flows must be one of the key imperatives during the Brexit talks. There is no substitutable capacity anywhere else that can take the type and volume of traffic that we handle at Dover. We need a tailored solution to ensure business as usual post-Brexit, which means maintaining the rapid transit of goods through the crossings and the wider freight corridor post-Brexit.
Locally, we are now well underway in delivering our biggest ever single investment – Dover Western Docks Revival. However, we are still facing a pocket of opposition to using a tiny amount of the Goodwin Sands in order to complete it. Our community is set to lose up to £½bn of new jobs, regeneration and new business if we cannot do so. I therefore appeal to you to help us deliver for Dover by registering your support as outlined later in this newsletter – we really need your support now.
Recent organisational changes to provide a clear distinction between operational businesses and the operational services which support them are now bedding in as we work to deliver a favourable environment in which the organisation, our own business streams, our customers and stakeholders can flourish. My thanks go particularly at this time to all those working at the Port to provide a safe and secure environment as we head through the busy holiday period. Alongside our international gateway role, as we work to develop Dover as a destination, don’t forget there is also a festival of fun around Dover’s waterfront to enjoy from 26 to 27 August with the Port of Dover Community Regatta and Dover Music Festival.
As we continue to move forward on delivering for Dover and the nation, our focus is to maximise on our investment, protect jobs, growth and prosperity in support of the national and local economy, working together with our customers and community.
I wish you a fantastic summer.
Tim Waggott, Chief Executive, Port of Dover
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