DTIZ update
- PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
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15 January 2017 10:40323598End of another rather wet, soggy week on site. More Steelwork on the new cinema. After this was taken additional cross members were put in place between the girders. Castle Street residents will not have much to look at from the rear of their properties when this complex is completed.
13 January
15 Januaryhoward mcsweeney1 likes this - 15 January 2017 11:22323601Took this a few weeks back in Dolphin Passage, yesterday a team of men were working on it.
- PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
16 January 2017 17:22323651Site visit today. Capt's report eagerly awaited.
- 16 January 2017 19:04323654All those councillors together in one place and you can bet there will not be a machine gun available.
- PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
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16 January 2017 23:18323660Didn't need one Howard - there was this well prepared hole............undoubtedly a lemming like stance!
howard mcsweeney1 likes this - Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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17 January 2017 13:55323662Scrutiny TONIGHT at Fort Whitfield! See item 13 http://moderngov.dover.gov.uk/documents/g2400/Public%20reports%20pack%2017th-Jan-2017%2018.00%20Scrutiny%20Policy%20and%20Performance%20Committee.pdf?T=10.
Why not turn up and hear it from the horse's mouth rather than relying on my version of the truth?"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 17 January 2017 14:58323664I would think that item 8 (c) is a bit irrelevant now.
- Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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17 January 2017 17:09323666howard mcsweeney1 wrote:I would think that item 8 (c) is a bit irrelevant now.
Withdrawn."We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 18 January 2017 08:02323677So, are we still on for a grand opening in Autumn this year? I know M&S have told their staff they are definitely closing down by October.
- 18 January 2017 14:46323688Presumably that's when M&S's lease is due for renewal (or do they own the premises?). It will be interesting to see what happens if their new premises are not ready.Lew Finnis
- Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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18 January 2017 14:47323689you would have to go to Canterbury or Folkestone. - 18 January 2017 15:03323691They closed the one in Folkestone quite a few years ago Brian, I believe they still have a branch in Deal.
- Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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18 January 2017 16:43323692howard mcsweeney1 wrote:They closed the one in Folkestone quite a few years ago Brian, I believe they still have a branch in Deal.
I see that the B&Q is Folkestone has closed this month too (and that's with a local population of over 46,000).
I was talking to someone in DDC Inward Investment at DDC only last night saying that I honestly don't think many of us realise just how much and how quickly the face of retail is changing and how much 'High Streets' must adapt and change, and that includes many behind some of the well-meaning but doomed local plans and projects (and here I'm NOT referring to DTIZ).
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 18 January 2017 17:02323693What we need is a few small shopsWe used to have a lovely art shop,needlework ,children's clothes and decent book shop .Food shopping out of town or on line.Oh nearly forgot decent fish shop
- 18 January 2017 17:04323694Reduce the business rates so people can invest
- 18 January 2017 18:48323696howard mcsweeney1 wrote:They closed the one in Folkestone quite a few years ago Brian, I believe they still have a branch in Deal.
There is a small M&S at the petrol station near the Cheriton Tesco. - 19 January 2017 11:02323704re 642
Work now completed and soil raked over it. - PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
20 January 2017 16:34323719Update for those who have not lost complete interest in the St. James development (come on, there must be one or two of you left).
Several more deliveries of steel from Northern Ireland this week with continued work on the cinema site.
Plenty of activity in the Travelodge area with cement deliveries arriving today.
DDS continue with the demolition of the Electricty Sub Station opposite Dolphin Passage.
Plenty of gravel deliveries across the site and dedicated cleaning/spraying of machinery to remove layers of mud.
The last of the piling rigs left site on 12 January.
Our esteemed Councillors and others were treated to a (soggy) site visit on Monday last.
Townwall Street westbound remains closed off at night (9pm-5am) for resurfacing and other work around the York Street Junction until the morning of Sunday 22nd January. Diversions signed via Wellesley Road, Marine Parade, Waterloo Crescent and Union Street. Freight (other than that destined for Freight Clearance or Western Docks) is diverted during that period up Jubilee Way.
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Paul M, Jan Higgins, howard mcsweeney1 and 1 more like thisPaul M, Jan Higgins, howard mcsweeney1 and Guest 1914 like this - Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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20 January 2017 16:45323720FUN FACT - gleaned from Monday's visit. Travelodge bathrooms arrive as a fully fitted out 'room' and are just dropped in to place to be wired and plumbed in externally!
(I asked whether the short curly hair which I ALWAYS find in the shower drain is added afterwards to each unit on site but no-one knew).Paul M, howard mcsweeney1 and Guest 1914 like this"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
24 January 2017 17:23323839
Dropped in today. Don't s'pose these are the new Travelodge bathrooms !
