Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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How can you possibly say its on time, when, as shown in a previous post, you stated it would be finished by summer of 2016 ? Are you accountable for what you say ?
Not laughable at all...
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I think you are being a tad unfair Baz, nobody at the time predicted that Asda were pulling a fast one with being the the original anchor store and being a year and a half late with the current development pales against the Bouverie Centre in Funky Folkestone that took 30 years from inception to completion.
Guest 1831- Registered: 1 Sep 2016
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Took 3 years to build The Shard
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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For the sake of accuracy the "Shard" was 14 years from inception to completion in one of the largest cities of the world with Arab money backing it so hardly a comparison.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I was working in that part of London at the time and we was on a high building but the Shard was high above us ,At one time I did not think they would stop.They had a tower crane sitting what was then the top and they were lifting even higher useing that.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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A piling company was working on site earlier.
PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
St James' development site progress - piling rigs on site
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Piling was a big part of my work and I liked doing it out in all weathers
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The old brewery converted into flats looks ready to fall down on its own.
PatrickS- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
Piling work continues with two rigs on site
Guest 1849- Registered: 12 Sep 2016
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If you'd like a comparison between professionalism and competence versus amateurism and incompetence have a look at this, ok its long winded but skip to the end and you'll get the picture.
http://www.spursodyssey.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=81724&PN=588
DDC has comparable income with Spurs and employs more people, likewise Arsenal a couple of miles down the road.
Certain people should be ashamed of themselves, it seems they're not.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,496
Link doesn't work.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
must come from a spurs/arsnal supporter,with a touch of west ham humor.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Just been past and looks like groundworks for the multiscreen cinema are in place, I can't remember now whether that was the first part planned to be completed.
Guest 1935- Registered: 2 Dec 2016
- Posts: 68
Thanks for the update.
It's a real shame but I think the vast majority (including me) don't really care anymore.
The only saving grace is that L&G came along and something will eventually get finished when a new contractor is on board.
I will miss M&S when it moves though, not so much Poundland.
Guest 1266- Registered: 8 May 2014
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I have got tickets for 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales' which is released next Summer. They couldn't give me a seat number as it may be an open air showing.
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Jack of Hearts
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,000
Let's all be optimistic for once and hope that the provision of two large sheds, one showing movies and the other selling M&S sandwiches, surrounded by a number of smaller sheds selling the re-cycled sweepings of various abattoir floors, turns around what passes for an economy in Dover.
We are where we are and DDC will knock any questions into the long grass by saying 'Nothing to do with us, mate. It all belongs to L&G. Ask them'.
Before all this gets lost in the mists of time the questions which we would all like to know the answer to are.
1. How much has this cost DDC in total in terms of such as purchase of land, legal advice, consultants, officers' time, contracters, advertising etc.
2. How much has our 'income' been from flogging the project.
What is the result of subtracting 2 from 1 as above?
Not too difficult to work out I suggest and the very least the council tax payers of Dover district deserve to know.
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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
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Sorry But I do not understand why some of you still live in Dover, by the way you write about it and its cllr,s there are other place,s you can move to.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Vic Matcham wrote: I do not understand why some of you still live in Dover, by the way you write about it and its cllr,s there are other place,s you can move to.
Correctamundo Vic.
When I first came to Dover district in 1980 I asked the estate agent to take me to the best part of Dover since I wished to buy a house.
He drove me round River and Temple Ewell which he claimed was quite posh for Dover, and Whitfield where the new estate was almost entirely inhabited by people living under assumed names while on a witness protection scheme.
I purchased Marlinspike Hall in Deal.
"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 1935- Registered: 2 Dec 2016
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Vic Matcham wrote:Sorry But I do not understand why some of you still live in Dover, by the way you write about it and its cllr,s there are other place,s you can move to.
Strangely it's called democracy!
The freedom to moan like hell is a god given right of every true Britain.
Similar to the right of Americans to bear arms, except Britains don't have it written in a constitution.
It is recognised world wide and expressed concisely by our criminal rejects in Australia with the term of endearment "whinging Poms".
Sorry for the thread drift
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