Vic, I don't think I can cope with you electioneering for 11 months. Any chance you can give it a rest for a couple of months at least please?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Sorry Sid but what you see is what you get.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Vic - what has DDC's Planning Dept. got to do with tourism ?
Tourism should be working from the bottom up, especially as the top won't be starting for some time.
The bottom up is the "street-scene" and everything associated with it and that's where business support comes in - or rather, where it should come in.
It was never supposed to be a closed, member-only club, but for the good of all of Dover, but if businesses joined, so much the better.
The Town and District Councils financially supported Dover Business Support and conditions of that support was that it must work for all, not just the few.
Roger
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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ROGER;
The planning dept does have a lot to answer for, although not all the blame should lay with them, you know Roger at times they have hardly helped.
It's about a feel good factor, and having a planning dept finding reason's why things CAN happen, rather than finding excuses why they cant!!!!!!
On another post I gave an example on how the planning dept can pass things if they wanted to, heres another example;
I went to planning a wanted to help start the now over very popular MOTORCROSS PROJECT when the application went in the planning dept was going to refuse it!!!!
Off I toddled to meet the officer concerned, at Whitfield in his office!!!
He explained the noise would be to great to houses(nearest house about one and half miles away!!
So having explained every weekend theres bangor racing run every week, and sure its noisy, we got over that hurdle, then explaining that the project would be run by fully qualified people, taking kids off the street, giving them a certificate at the end, and teaching them to strip a motor bike down, them put it bsack together, and take kids off the street usually a problem to society was a great thng to do.
Lots of agencies were up for the project, and willing to be part of it.
After a long and exhausting chat the officer finally agreed to give it a 3 year start renewable.
From that day on the project has never looked back getting the kids to build the track themselves, now some years later looks great.
classroom facilities to teach the kids about bikes before they go anywhere near the track.
But my point is, none of this would have happened had I not bothered to challenge this planning officer!!!
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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A good story Keith and well done.
I agree very much with your opening line about a "feel-good" factor, which we don't have in Dover.
There was much hope and good-will last November, but with simply NO information coming out from the Chamber/DBS, what are poeple to make of its progress ?
I'm not going to criticise the Planning Department, but I would say that perhaps there should be more of a CAN-DO attitude - finding a way where more things can happen, than can't.
Roger
I have lived in Dover all my life , and im beyond sad to see my town in this state we need investment but doubt it will come may be are new Mp will make a difference but i doubt it .
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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There is Preston Steam Rally as well this coming weekend boys..
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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We'll be there at some point Jen
Been nice knowing you :)