Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
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As I understand it the original owners (Godden Trust) rebuffed all offers from DDC to buy the building or take any action to preserve said painting or stabilise/repair the building; subsequently they sold the building to Schreiber who was much more prepared to negotiate with DDC & subsequently agreed the sale of all his buildings around the underpass.
To be fair to DDC the overpainting of the Banksy coupled with the deplorable state of the building meant it was/is unsaveable so their proposal to engage Factum Arte strikes me as the only realistic option.
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Which is a bit of a shame.
I thought it was meant to be amusing but ephemeral - a bit like our membership of the EU - rather than part and parcel of the multi-millionaire Banksy industry.
'Ars Brevis, Vita Longa' and all that.
Now if we only had Hurst's Verity Statue on the end of the new marina arm ..........................
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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Apparently the demolition company have been told they can keep whatever parts of the Banksy they can salvage.
Sounds like a good deal for the town.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/one-wrong-move-and-it-could-be-lost-forever-293696/PatrickS
- Location: Marine Parade, Dover
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All that’s left of the Banksy wall
Karlos- Location: Dover
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I noticed yesterday that the Godden arcade building has now gone.
I wonder it will become another town centre site like Buckland Mill, Stembrook, the old leisure centre, Cherry Tree scrapyard, etc that will lay unused, probably forever.
Dover History Pages- Registered: 12 Dec 2020
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Karlos wrote:I noticed yesterday that the Godden arcade building has now gone.
I wonder it will become another town centre site like Buckland Mill, Stembrook, the old leisure centre, Cherry Tree scrapyard, etc that will lay unused, probably forever.
Why? It has a large amount of ring-fenced funding for the project
https://www.dover.gov.uk/Planning/Regeneration/Creative-Centre-Underpass/Creative-Centre-Underpass.aspxKarlos- Location: Dover
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Ringfenced forever?
In the link it says the creative centre will be completed Spring 2024. How likely is that?
Are there even any definite plans yet?
Matey
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
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Well, whatever the eventual plans are, it looks better now than it has for twenty years! It was an awful view for visitors driving by it. Anything will be better than that, surely.
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
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Dover History Pages wrote:
Nothing currently planned for the arcade site, cable car base station anyone?
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Keith Sansum1
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Think the cable car had very divided opinions
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Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
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So probably eventually open about 2030 just as AI personal tutoring makes education campuses a thing of the past
alexiatrade- Registered: 10 Oct 2018
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Very interesting and intriguing the Market Square has been mentioned....it now sits completed as an "improvement".....Well is it? and what is it? Millions it has cost.......................for any purpose?
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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Anything happening with this?
https://www.dover.gov.uk/Planning/Regeneration/PDF/Dover-Creative-Centre-engagement-panels-
PROOF-v3.pdf
How long will it be before the Creative Centre is completed?
It is anticipated that the Creative Centre will be completed by the end of Spring 2024.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Let's hope it's not expensive project that comes to nothing
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