Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
lewis, my understanding is they [ nat.trust. etc that is] underpinned it a few years back to keep the white cliffs white and not green.
PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
Sign in please!
The newly erected sign at the western end of St James adjacent to the M&S unit on Townwall Street.
Area around cinema block being readied for the opening on 2nd February.
and a chicken has arrived at Nando’s
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,495
Website now says 26/03/18.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Read earlier that the shops would be opening on the 14th of March, I had the impression that each would open when they were ready to unless the reference was to the official opening when the great and the good of the district will down pints of Moet and Chandon and munch canapes on our behalf.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Slight delay on opening and I read earlier that Dover staff are being trained over at the Ashford version today. That deal of £.17. 90 for a month - go as often as you like - sounds good value to me.
http://www.kentlive.news/whats-on/whats-on-news/opening-date-cineworlds-new-six-1118170howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Work going on this morning to get the site ready for a Spring opening.
Guest 2210- Registered: 16 Aug 2017
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Guest 2210- Registered: 16 Aug 2017
- Posts: 53
That wasn't predictable at all......
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,992
In passing I heard someone rather amusingly describe Nandos as 'KFC with cutlery'.
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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 2210- Registered: 16 Aug 2017
- Posts: 53
For some it may well be that. They are going to do rather good business in the short term as they are the only eatery whi has the ability to do what they signed up to do. I say it's great though Bella Italia and the other one are absolute crap.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,992
A shame Greggs will not be open for Feb 14. We really need more up market eateries in Dover and this will go some way to fill the gap.
.http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/greggs-valentines-day-2018-candle-lit-dinners-romantic-couples-a8182996.html
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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 2418- Registered: 14 Dec 2017
- Posts: 37
I love Bella Italia and there is always a queue waiting for a table at Bluewater. DTIZ is turning into another DDC disaster like the White Cliffs experience.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Apparently M & S are opening their new unit in St James on the 18th March and another business has already signed up to take over the Biggin Street outlet.
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PatrickS- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
- Registered: 19 Sep 2015
- Posts: 448
Latest on M&S is a 14th March opening - a fourth put back change of date following three different dates offered for a February opening.
Meanwhile the brick wall, dividing the site from the river alongside the M&S end of the site, is nearly finished complete with a wide set of steps down to the Dour path. Wooden planters frame the inner side of the wall, complete with a variety of plants.
A real shame that there has been so little information on public transport into and from the site. St James was a DDC inspired and promoted project and although the site is under L&G control and bus services are not Council responsibility, transport links within the District do fall within the remit of the Portfolio holder for Access & Licensing at Fort Whitfield. I was encouraged to see Cllr Cowan raising this issue at the last full Council Meeting this week. The usual obfuscated reply I understand. Take it up with Stagecoach. Nothing to do with DDC. Remind me again exactly when DDC proposed the redevelopment of the St James site. Was it within living memory?
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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Looking good. Don't see how things could possibly go wrong. Nothing like Preston. (See first two paragraphs here:-
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/31/preston-hit-rock-bottom-took-back-control )
Remind me again exactly when DDC proposed the redevelopment of the St James site. Was it within living memory?
Here's a clue. It was exactly the same year that Amazon first started trading in the UK showing that we no longer needed to go to shops just to buy 'stuff' though it was a number of years before the introduction of Amazon Prime and Netflix which meant that people could watch newly released movies in the comfort of their own home.
"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 2418- Registered: 14 Dec 2017
- Posts: 37
I doubt many people will bother with DTIZ now that £15 million is being put into a rapid bus service from Dover Town to Whitfield's rapidly expanding out of town shopping and leisure empire.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/boost-for-housing-and-regeneration-159469/Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,039
I owe you an apology PaulineQuick: I didn't believe you so I clicked on the link. My giddy aunt, for that money I'd buy a bus myself!
For £3,250 I can get a Solo or Olympian!
(Not my real name.)
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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Dover is to get £15m to help fund a rapid bus transit scheme that will join the town with developments at White Cliffs Business Park!
I believe Dover's plans for a 'rapid bus transit scheme' involves each bus being preceded by a man driving a fork-lift who will lift badly parked cars out of the way.
"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
Dover is to get £15m to help fund a rapid bus transit scheme that will join the town with developments at White Cliffs Business Park. (KentOnline Report today)
"Remind me again exactly when DDC proposed the redevelopment of the St James site. Was it within living memory?
The Mighty Haddock wrote: Here's a clue. It was exactly the same year that Amazon first started trading in the UK showing that we no longer needed to go to shops just to buy 'stuff' though it was a number of years before the introduction of Amazon Prime and Netflix which meant that people could watch newly released movies in the comfort of their own home."
Put these two together and possibly 'Up The (St James') Creek Without A Paddle' methinks.
Or is this just Fake News!!
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,023
Another pass the buck .
