Guest 1385- Registered: 27 Oct 2014
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Dover Express are running a poll to see where the people of Dover would like the new one.
Townwall street.
Buckland Mill Site.
Maision Dieu Car Park ?
Whitfield.
Townwall site is not big enough. Let use the car park to stop the locals parking. Move it to Whitfield so nobody can use it as it is to far out ?
Lets put it in the middle of the town somewhere we can walk to and buses pass. Now am I being normal?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I would go for Buckland Mill, accessible for most people.
Jan Higgins
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Buckland Mill is certainly the only possible site in the town.
Whitfield has plenty of land so they could build a really large centre to house a Olympic size pool together with all the other amenities a top notch centre should have, this would bring money and people into the area especially if Lydden gets the go ahead.
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Alec Sheldon
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Whitfield would be handy for all the surrounding villages, Elvington. Eythorne etc.
Andy B
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Maison dieu car park.Or if it were possible i,d knock the Charlton centre down and put it there.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I don't think there is the money available to build a large centre, more likely to be about the same size as the one we have now. Whitfield would be a poor choice in my view being of benefit mainly for car owners. The bus services from the villages are poor and non existent evenings and Sundays.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:The bus services from the villages are poor and non existent evenings and Sundays.
This applies even more so to the present location in Dover. It is because public transport to the villages is so poor that most households have a car. Buses to Whitfield from Dover are plentiful; I see Whitfield as the ideal location with room for future expansion. Perhaps a partial subsidy for bus users in the same way as the present parking arrangements?
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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DDC planning policies will probably affect the decision.
Dover Bus Rapid Transit connecting Whitfield to the town centre and beyond, page 5 has a simple map if you don't want to read the full 46 pages.
Guest 1266- Registered: 8 May 2014
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Bus services between Whitfield and Sandwich/Deal are already more plentiful than buses to Dover, so I agree that Whitfield is the ideal location.
Jack of Hearts
Guest 1348- Registered: 20 Sep 2014
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I think buckland mill better site. If they do put it up here in Whitfield then they need to sort the roads out as current layout won't be much good with even more traffic as roundabout top whitfield hill always a gauntlet and jubilee way one just as bad. As often happens when the waste site changes a container it backs up round to the Kittywake. Also the buckland mill site more access to those who walk and closer to a larger amount of people. As stated most people outside town drive so why not make it easier for those in town who don't.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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This seems a thoroughly spiffing idea from Councillor Frost, wondered what happened to him never hear from him nowadays.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/dovers-new-leisure-centre-pool-70014/howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Last chance to have our say on what we want in the proposed leisure centre, I prefer the olympic sized swimming pool.
http://www.dover-express.co.uk/CHANCE-Vote-POLL-say-want-new-Dover-Leisure/story-28648266-detail/story.htmlGuest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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I cannot believe DDC are considering moving it to Whitfield. Dovorians - among the fattest people in the country I believe - have already been stripped of a prime site for a nice walk, i.e. the PoW Pier - and now the council wants to stop us swimming and using the gym as well. What are people who live in the town centre and don't drive supposed to do? Who is going to wait around for a bus in gale force winds on a freezing winter's night after going for a swim? Or even catch a bus there in the first place?
The smacks of giving to comfortable car driving suburbanites at the expense of us pedestrianised Morlocks in the town centre.
Keep it where it is - or failing that keep it somewhere in the town. It is actually adding to deprivation in already deprived areas.
But show me just ONE instance where a major organ in the town took the slightest notice of public opinion? We are treated with arrogance and contempt. And deep down, they know it's the truth.
Reginald Barrington
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It will be an attraction for the thousands of new homes in Whitfield, not that our council would do anything underhanded of course
, but there is little to attract new people to Whitfield at the moment lack of schools, recreation facilities and shops a brand new state of the art leisure centre would certainly go a long way towards making peoples minds up.
Arte et Marte
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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Indeed, Reginald - and to hell with the town.
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
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No change there, its the school groups in Dover that will lose out massively, and the empty townwall street site would make a nice little addition to the st James development for the right people, cynical of me but a lifetime of seeing how Dover has been run leads a person toward cynicism.!
Arte et Marte
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Whitfield has not yet been named as the site for the new leisure centre but the general consensus is that the others have been ruled out. Everyone is expecting a lot and will be disappointed. The 50 metre pool is a popular idea but some are expecting an Ice Rink, Bowling Alley, Tennis courts and other things on top. The figure of £20, 000 has been bandied about which is the same amount as our hospital.
Brian Dixon
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£20,000 for a hospital howard no wonder its got a leeky roof and a dodgy x-ray machine.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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For the other two thirds of the local population who live in the district, Whitfield is more convenient than the town centre. The leisure centre is not just open to Dover townies.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson