howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Been a HMO for many years going back to the Asylum Seeker days then housing East Europeans after their accession to the EU. About a year or so ago they were all kicked out and the place was advertised as 4 flats at £. 25000 each later reduced to £. 20000.
The boards have been taken down but judging by the cars and overflowing rubbish bins people are living in there.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Poor old Folkestone RD why did the council not take any notice of what we said years ago.The D.D.C of the day must take 100% blame for this.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Big houses like those in the Folkestone Road and all around the country hark back to the days when wealthy families had staff who needed quarters. Conversions were inevitable but in certain areas local authorities were more sensible and only allowed them to be converted into 2/3 bedroomed flats to attract families. From what I have been told there are 2 or 3 families sharing kitchen and bathroom facilities in some of our local hovels with landlords raking it in.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The D.D.C. NEED TO GET UP FOLKESTONE RD and have a good sort out but they will not do that.The only way things might get done is if DOVER Collage have a go at them about it all .But I can not see that happen.
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Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Keep your eyes on the Red Ford Howard. Listed as Staturory Off-road Notice (SORN ), MOT until 31st March 2017.
Do nothing and nothing happens!
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Guest 1792- Registered: 2 Jul 2016
- Posts: 111
My Dad used to tell me of a clean pretty Folkestone rd with the Webbs hotel where my Aunt had her wedding reception bk in the late 70s ,,How has this road been allowed to get like this
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Ironically the the development on the old Webb's site is the most attractive bit between the tram shelter and the station.
Amsterdam house has been a slum for 15 years to my knowledge with families packed in rubbish dumped outside.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,835
Cherry blossom poisoning 666 wrote:My Dad used to tell me of a clean pretty Folkestone rd with the Webbs hotel where my Aunt had her wedding reception bk in the late 70s ,,How has this road been allowed to get like this
It was a lovely road with hotels and B&Bs and nice private housing, it all changed for the worse when the duty free lot stayed there with their fights, followed by all the large houses being changed into HMOs.
Unfortunately I think it will be many years before it even starts to get back to being the nice road it used to be.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
I don't envisage any improvement in the foreseeable future as there is not the political will, DDC are not interested in a landlord licencing system.
One B & B does a great job in trying circumstances.
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Guest 1792- Registered: 2 Jul 2016
- Posts: 111
DDC should be made to sort this slum area out ,Last winter my m8 was harassed by our foreign guests early 1 morning going to work ,4 surrounded him jostling and pushing him into the road ,,He put a complaint into the Police but they were more interested what he d done to get harassed & the attitude was do t walk down the rd so early !
Guest 1792- Registered: 2 Jul 2016
- Posts: 111
DDC should be made to sort this slum area out ,Last winter my m8 was harassed by our foreign guests early 1 morning going to work ,4 surrounded him jostling and pushing him into the road ,,He put a complaint into the Police but they were more interested what he d done to get harassed & the attitude was don t walk down the rd so early !
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Our local police are very week and do nothing ,even outside their own Police office in Dover ,there is drugs being pass on and drinking beer by the gents on the seat there .And I have seen them just walk by and say nothing.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
When I was a town cllr for up there ,I said at a public meeting at their own planing commitee at D,D,C, you must not build flats in Folkestone rd they are big homes for our own familys to rent or buy. Not for one or two bed room flats,
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,701
Lets put this into some sort of perspective; it is a small part of Folkestone Road that is a problem, namely from the railway bridge up to Winchelsea Road on the North side & from Clarendon to the new Doctors Surgery on the South Side.
From Clare House/Winchelsea onwards it is a pleasant street with mostly well kept houses and gardens
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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A few years back Kent politicians sorry I meant police came up with the idea of exclusion zones or something similar whereby young people thought to be causing a nuisance were taken home or in more serious cases arrested. Folkestone Road was included in the initiative and I can only guess why.
A mate of mine finishes his shift in the early hours and comes home on his motor cycle and to quote him "never see them during the day but after dark they come out like vampires".
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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post 14 you are wrong you need to go up there and have a good look
Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
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I travel Folkestone Road 5 days a week twice a day, when were you last there Vic?
Also I have a number of friends who live on the stretch past Winchelsea Road and they along with their neighbours take great care of their properties and gardens...
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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In fairness to the good burghers of Winchelsea Street there are are not many turnings in town where an armchair is provided for us decrepit ones to rest halfway up the slope.
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Judith Roberts- Registered: 15 May 2012
- Posts: 637
Folkestone Rd in part is pretty grim, but generally it is looking better than it did a few years ago. If they developed the Westmount site with quality 3 and 4 bed family homes that might help the area improve. There are far too many flats in Dover. Families more or less have to move out to Whitfield to get a good size modern home. I love period properties, but a lot of people want modern homes built to modern building regs, garages and plenty of parking.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
post 17 most days and just going up there now you need to look at most house,s up to Belgrave rd Some owner house,s and B&B do keep the house and gardens looking nice but are let down by the rest .
