Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
It's possible to argue that the heritage of its "heritage position" is somewhere between a pissoir and gasometer.
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Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,705
it could be argued that democracy indeed has been done as there were approximately 300 objections out of a local population of c33,000.
One could equally suggest that the silent majority cared neither way but their ambivalence outweighed the vocal minorities commentary in the minds of the committee.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,873
To be fair I think that many of those who were quietly against did not object because they thought their opinion carried little weight, plus big business usually win if extra local employment is a factor.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
TBH I wasn't and am not particularly against the style of the new building, although I always liked the garage on the corner with Townwall Street:
which was re-purposed from
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Dover History Pages- Registered: 12 Dec 2020
- Posts: 34
Button wrote:TBH I wasn't and am not particularly against the style of the new building, although I always liked the garage on the corner with Townwall Street:
which was re-purposed from
The petrol station though was built just before the hover flew so wasn't inspired by it as some suggest
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,073
some great old cars in the back ground which I had one of them.
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 438
My objection to this is purely and simply that Dover doesn’t need anymore fast food outlets - I think that’s also true of many towns, Canterbury is now overrun with them, fewer and fewer places to do actual shopping. It will be interesting to see what happens with the traffic on Townwall Street when the port experiences delays.
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,817
Can get very busy down there at times,lots of cars trying to get in lane round to St james,n waiting at Townwall st traffic lights,have witnessed a few traffic jams there.All it needs is one impatient lorry to the docks block the way across the traffic lights n then no one will be moving.
