Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,039
All the more room for residences at ground level too then? I mean, some places do become just dormitories for neighbouring towns.
howard mcsweeney1 likes this
(Not my real name.)
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
- Posts: 1,039
Yes. If shops are to close and never re-open then turn them into houses.
Shrink the overall retail area. I see this si steadily happening from the Buckland Bridge end.
Now put the retail mausoleum that is the Charlton Centre out of its misery, move the shops into empty units, and turn the Centre and car park into housing.
howard mcsweeney1 likes this
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
That has been said before by most of us over the years.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,023
Tried many times .Now if we had a Town Centre Manager or a decent Chamber of Commerce things might look up .
howard mcsweeney1 likes this
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,992
With a bit of imagination DTIZ should have been more like Brunswick Centre in London, a mixture of housing, shopping and public space (and yes they have a cinema!)
Unfortunately this Grade 2 listed design (built between 1967/72) would never have got past local planners! I was there last week. It was really busy. Modern architecture and town planning WORKS.
Ross Miller likes 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
Guest 1385- Registered: 27 Oct 2014
- Posts: 322
Nice to see a local business got in on this site. I have been told business,s for outside the area was asked to do it.well done local firms. more to come. I hope.
howard mcsweeney1 likes this
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,699
sadly given rental demands in the town centre, all that will happen if DDC try to squeeze shops out London Road & the High St is that these business will close or relocate to towns with a more enlightened view of the benefits of secondary shopping areas.
Paul M likes this
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
St. James Development progress
Travelodge Site - work starts installing first floor pre-cast concrete window sections, following scaffolding work from local contractor
Elsewhere on site - scaffolding and netting installed last week on Block A (alongside Townwall Street) and roofers started work today
further steels have arrived for Block C over by Dolphin Passage, and concrete flooring continues to be laid in Block A.
More 'town wall' sections were installed last week at the M&S end of Block A.
A shot of the St. James site taken in the afternoon of 3rd May from Western Heights
Reginald Barrington, Brian Dixon, Guest 1599 and
2 more like this
Reginald Barrington, Brian Dixon, Guest 1599, Ross Miller and howard mcsweeney1 like this
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
Note name of scaffolding company.
Local employment.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,236
A half dozen scaffolders two days work, forgive me but I won't roll out the bunting yet!
Jan Higgins and Guest 1266 like this
Arte et Marte
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,832
Paul Watkins wrote:Note name of scaffolding company.
Local employment.
I would be more impressed if the builders were a local company.
The scaffolding erection will make little difference, if any, to Dover's unemployed but I suppose it is nice to see the Mayor's name up there.
howard mcsweeney1 likes this
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
I do not know why they did not use cooks for the steel work ,we done lots of building,s like that and they good and a local company.
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
Did Cook's bid for the job Vic?
RG are Kent based company.
Not sure Dover District have builders to undertake main contractor role but certainly could provide the sub -contracting activities if they have bid.
Brian Dixon and howard mcsweeney1 like this
James Hayes- Location: Ramsgate but still house hunting in Dover !
- Registered: 22 Apr 2017
- Posts: 38
Good to see progress of the DTIZ the long awaited plan is happening.
Has the council any plan in position to deal with the high street and adjacent streets where business will either relocate or close down,kind of hoping they have.
Having been a resident of Ramsgate for 6 months now, now had a chance to walk the area,there are so many empty shops,many now empty for years and in very very poor external condition,most probably due to the Westwood cross shopping centre opening.
Just hope Dover council has a plan for empty shops (for example streamline the planning process so change of use to residential is quick and easy) and not leave the area to rot.
Not a rant but an observation.
howard mcsweeney1 likes this
Bring back proper apprenticeships !
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
Next phase of regeneration Master Plan- Wellington Docks to Town Hall will be published in next few months. Work nearly complete , partners need to agree findings & move to formal details for public viewing.
Judith Roberts, Brian Dixon, howard mcsweeney1 and
1 more like this
Judith Roberts, Brian Dixon, howard mcsweeney1 and Captain Haddock like this
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
I do not work any more Mr Watkins sir but I will find out .Thank you.
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
Ok Vic. I recommended Eric Cook to a possible client recently but he was unable to undertake the work required. Not his area of activity. His business is a little gem of private enterprise working on the fringes of our District that is achieving a great reputation.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Yes Mr Watkins I have found out what that job was ,at that time most of his welders were out on site as they are today.There is more to add to that but not on a forum,he thanks you for your support and what you have said above.
PatrickS- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
St. James Development - site as at end of work on Friday 12 May 2017
Site panorama
roofing work continues on the 'NEXT' unit
further along Block A - more concrete bases continue to be laid
The 'Travelodge' site has grown with more scaffolding, netting and internal steelwork put in place (with more layers to come)
and don't forget those Castle views
howard mcsweeney1 and Jan Higgins like this
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
It does not take long to put the steel up
Ross Miller likes this"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Reginald Barrington, Brian Dixon, Guest 1599 and 2 more like thisReginald Barrington, Brian Dixon, Guest 1599, Ross Miller and howard mcsweeney1 like this
howard mcsweeney1 and Jan Higgins like this
