Religious revival at Sandwach?

• Captain Haddock

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  23 March 2025     10:49386950
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  'One unlikely hive of religious fervour is Discovery Park Estates, a vast life sciences hub near Sandwich, Kent, owned by members of the Schreiber family. Dover district council is pursuing Discovery Park for £1m, challenging the company’s designation of 60 of its units as faith rooms. A spokesperson for Discovery Park said the sum in dispute was much less than £1m and that it was only leasing 18 rooms to faith groups at present. The company said it had provided evidence to the council of the buildings being used for religious worship'
  
  Article (Observer 23/3) here :-
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/23/ye-of-little-faith-the-tax-loophole-that-turns-old-pubs-into-places-of-worship
  "We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Button

  • Location: Dover
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  23 March 2025     11:52386951
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  I'll get on my knees and pray
  We don't get fooled again
  (Not my real name.)
• Karlos

  • Location: Dover
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  23 March 2025     12:20386953
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  Was mentioned on here somewhere last month.
  https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sandwich/news/kent-science-park-in-1m-business-rates-dispute-as-it-claims-319980/
• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
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  23 March 2025     16:03386954
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  Maybe time the money grabbing Chancellor realised every religious group or obscure faith should pay tax on all money that comes through their doors however it arrives and leave the disabled, ill and old alone.
  
  Most religious groups cry poverty while sitting on valuable real estate or contents that the majority of us never use or even see.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  it is time we realised
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• Weird Granny Slater

  • Location: Dover
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  I think we all know what 'faith' means in this context, and it isn't the one that was once seen retreating from Dover beach.
  'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus