Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,790
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Guest 1831- Registered: 1 Sep 2016
- Posts: 395
Oh yes, I forgot. We need this sand, by whatever means.
To fill in the Historic and enjoyable Granville Docks.
Layering it with a huge concrete sheet, we love those.
For a magnificent lorry park.
Where we will get all the revenue, like we do now.
Oh yes, after our fat massive salaries.
We have to give the rest to the government of the day.
Dover, ofcourse has benefited from this wonderful Harbour.
Look at it's vibrancy and wealth.
He he................
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,845
I'v watched all this unfold over time, and really I can see people being bought off once against the scheme given jobs and turn.
Now, I don't know if the plans by DHB will benefit Dover and it's residents, im sure it will DHB.
It's a long road ahead
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
it is when the road to hell gets filled with lorrys that are slow moving or static blocking the town of from the rest of the world.
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,009
A very good reason why Brexit must include a solution tailored for Dover - and Calais and Dunkerque for that matter!
(Not my real name.)
Guest 1831- Registered: 1 Sep 2016
- Posts: 395
Anyone following this development.
May be interested in following, by foot, the walkway across the proposed Wellington Navigational Channel.
It is very interesting. The engineering fascinating.
Also, it gives new vistas on the Wellington Marina views towards the Castle. etc.
Guest 1831- Registered: 1 Sep 2016
- Posts: 395
We want to help the town to grow and thrive,
So let us do it our way as there can be no other
And we will put up a VERY BIG SIGN.
We are proud of our great history,
Five hundred years and more
And we will put up a VERY BIG SIGN.
We are working for our heritage and
To attract visitors into the town
So we will put up a VERY BIG SIGN.
We know what is best for everyone
And it involves concrete and tarmac
With, you can be sure, a VERY BIG SIGN.
Bones and wreckage can’t get in the way
While the wildlife can move to our whim
And, of course there’ll be a VERY BIG SIGN.
Our plans are in place, as none can argue,
And they are all for the towns' own good
As we’ll prove with a VERY BIG SIGN.
We’ll attract more visitors as all will see
When we squabble and pout our case
With the aid of a VERY BIG SIGN.
Any figures we quote or facts we give
Are the only opinion if you pay attention
To our very petty and ugly but bloody BIG SIGN.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,892
Deal Town Hall.
Public meeting to hear the presentation from DWDR on the Monday 18 September at 7.15pm in the Town Hall, this will be followed by a presentation from the Goodwin Sands SOS group.
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
I thought Deal was populated by heathens who would stop at nothing to hinder progress in Dover, must be so it was on a big sign.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Work goes on tirelessly, even on a Saturday.
PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
Dover Western Docks Revival progress at 22 September 2017
Panoramic view from St Martin's battery
Piling the Marine Curve alongside the 'Prince of Wales' pier and old hoverport site
on the left centre of the above photo can be seen the crane barge working on the start of the piling for the public access pier that will enclose the new marina
.... and a closer look at the pier piling
The marina will provide access to the Wellington Dock via the new Wellington Dock Navigation Channel and Lock
The Wick Channel (piled off) with access via a new 'hole' cut in the Dunkirk Jetty controlled by traffic lights from Dover Port Control
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Getting back to the 600 jobs we are supposed to be getting here I read earlier that in a presentation to Sandwich Town Council from DHB that they would be spread over 40 years!!
At the Town Council meeting two days they admitted that most jobs created would be in the Marine Curve outlets but they had no idea how many would be built.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,845
I think they did themselves no justice atDTC
a lot of supportive councillors voted against them purely because they had no plan B or answers or costs.
lots of assumptions
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PatrickS- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
Working tugs and crane barges used to hammer piles into the area alongside the Prince of Wales pier and to form the new pier (top right).
A wider view to incorporate the marina curve. The central area will become the new yacht marina (pontoons and berths).
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PatrickS- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
Work progresses on the piling alongside the Prince of Wales pier that has now nearly reached the Wellington Cut coffer dam. Seawater ingress into the Lock Cut continues to be pumped out during the work on the Lock itself.
Meanwhile the clock on the old Lifeboat Station (Clocktower) resolutely and defiantly remains correct twice a day.
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PatrickS- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
DWDR - Boskalis Volker Stevin work progress, viewed from Dover's Western Heights
The recently arrived platform rig situated at the top end of the new pier piling. This platform has the ability to raise or lower itself on its four legs as required. But who knows what is it for?
Meanwhile another pile goes in at the end of the row of piles that form the basis of the new pier.
In the Inner Harbour mv 'LIAMARE' is on one of the regular runs from Boulogne-sur-Mer discharging rocks into barges before they are transported to the western side of the Prince of Wales Pier where grab dredger 'Kreeft' is working on the revetment.
Meanwhile to landward work continues on digging out the Wellington Navigation Channel and Lock Cut that will eventually provide sole access to and from the Wellington Dock for yachts and small craft when the Tidal Marina and Wick Channel are reclaimed to form part of the land based service area supporting the two new cargo berths.
Just by contrast - Tranquility - shafts of early morning sunlight descend through clouds to meet the waters edge beyond the southern breakwater
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PatrickS- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
Boskalis' Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger 'BARENT ZANEN' has recently commenced regular runs to and from the Thames dredging ground to discharge sand into the DWDR reclaim areas. Currently on a 12 hour round trip cycle with discharge taking approx 2 hours.
Sand being pumped into the hoverport infill area from pipeline along the Prince of Wales pier connected to the bow of the dredger
with more recent discharges commenced into the outer harbour reclaim area
Boskalis website gives details of the dredger and how it works:
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Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 509
The tooth appears to have been washed down the river Dour, or washed up on the beach, or may have been used in construction by earlier inhabitants, or even buried as a sacred relic.
I'm sure the conservation officer could have found some other alternatives, or they could have said, 'we don't know how it got there'.
PatrickS- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
DHB's aerial views of the Dover Western Docks Revival construction (drone footage as of late September)
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