Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
the only problem with the 61 service is stagw coach keep cutting them out
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,848
Dover District Council
Want to know more about #Dover #Fastrack our #ZeroEmission bus service? Come along to Guston Village Hall, The Street from 2-6pm on Tuesday, 26 April to see our exhibition. Representatives from @DoverDC
@Kent_cc
, and contractor @ColasLtd
will be on hand to answer your questions
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 342
Meanwhile in the real world.
Local Stagecoach bus services continue to be cancelled and have 'disruption to the advertised bus times' if you can get hold of the information.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,848
Wow! There are indicator boards which show bus arrivals in real time!
What sorcery is this?
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,848
Went to 'exhibition'.
Not sure wether more disappointed or angry.
While the rest of the world is developing autonomous transport systems (Already running USA, China, Scandinavia and now even Spain
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/25/driverless-electric-bus-hits-the-road-in-spanish-city-of-malaga ) we are apparently meant to get excited that they've managed to put some seats on the same technology that used to drive milk floats and that the rest of the world with the exception of Africa, has been using for decades
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bus"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,848
And of course the land agents are our old fiends T Dan Citycourt Developments!
Call me old fashioned but I thought the idea was to hit developers with 106 agreements to pay for necessary infrastructure to mitigate such as increased traffic NOT to build infrastructure to encourage development?
Interesting article in Economist here :-
https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/04/21/the-nimby-city
Last time York had a Local Plan was 1956. Basically York has decided it's quite big enough and doesn't want to grow.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,848
Fast Track - Project Newsletter March 2022
'The £22.9m public transport investment, which is backed by government support from the Housing Infrastructure Fund and the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas (ZEBRA) scheme, will see a fleet of electric buses operating on Dover Fastrack link up to 5,000 new homes in Whitfield with Dover town centre and Dover Priory railway station and its High-Speed train links with London'.
FIVE THOUSAND new homes!
(Census 2011 - The total population of the Whitfield ward is 5,142, of which 2,508 (48.8%) are male and 2,634 (51.2%) are female).
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Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 425
I’m still intrigued as to who is going to buy all of these new houses. I visited the exhibition yesterday and expressed that view. Dover has very few employment opportunities and I can’t see all of these new residents being commuters or even people escaping the city and working from home. I’d want a much better shopping and entertainment environment/experience to entice me to invest in this area if I were looking to move. Admittedly the local countryside is beautiful but that is fast being destroyed in the face of so called ‘progress’.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,017
I agree Arthur.This desire to cover every field with new housing is appalling.Why would you want to move here .?Where are the shops the entertainment etc.Kent the Garden of England.When I moved here fifty one years ago there was the military .The Hoverport.Dover Engineering works.The Overseas Mail sorting Office.The Royal Victoria Hospital .DDC employed more staff.Im sure the list is much longer.Its time the Public realised we are being brain washed.In my own way I still speak out .
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,823
I think Mcsrthy stone on the corner bridge st
Ares not selling
Maybe same reason
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,017
Frith Road / Maison dieu Road
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 425
I will only give up my car when I can no longer drive safely. Those who live in rural areas depend on their cars, we have CHOSEN to live in the countryside and accept the limitations.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Discussions the same Sue
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,466
Captain Haddock wrote:And of course the land agents are our old fiends T Dan Citycourt Developments!
Call me old fashioned but I thought the idea was to hit developers with 106 agreements to pay for necessary infrastructure to mitigate such as increased traffic NOT to build infrastructure to encourage development?
Interesting article in Economist here :-
https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/04/21/the-nimby-city
Last time York had a Local Plan was 1956. Basically York has decided it's quite big enough and doesn't want to grow.
Whitfield development map from 2010.
https://www.investindover.co.uk/PDF/Whitfield-Map.pdfGuest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
- Posts: 541
These maps make me laugh, no schools, shops or doctors surgery.
If half the houses contain families, you'll need a primary school at least and maybe a secondary, I suppose people can jump on the FastTrack bus to get to the shops (or drive their 4x4s) and I struggle to get an appointment at High St surgery who have an offshoot in Whitfield, so I doubt they can increase capacity.
Still, if it's taken over 10 years to build the rubbish they have so far, it won't be for another 10 years to get everything on this map built and I'll be happily retired in Poland by then and start my own "Beautiful Poland" thread
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,225
Isn't the primary school already up and running on archers court road?
Arte et Marte
Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
- Posts: 541
Yes the school is but it's pretty much to capacity now and the majority of the houses haven't been built or occupied yet!
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,225
Already filled by the current residents then, certainly highlights the shortage already in school places. Going to be dire by the time they've built the circa 5000 homes!
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Chris- Forum Admin
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Oct 2009
- Posts: 357
There are two more school sites on that map that haven't been built yet.
But maybe more general discussion about the Whitfield development should be
continued here.
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