Revival of the British seaside

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• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  14 May 2016     09:14313612
  #1      
  Whilst Hastings builds a new pier to attract visitors, Dover dismantles their one.
  
  
  http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/may/14/once-more-on-to-the-beach-how-britains-seaside-towns-bounced-back
• Guest 698

  • Registered: 28 May 2010
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  14 May 2016     09:32313613
  #2      
  I would like to see a new T-shaped promenade pier opposite the RCPYC. There used to be a short one in Victorian times, but much further to the east.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• Guest 649

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  14 May 2016     09:34313614
  #3      
  Give it a rest mate Dover has a very long free pier ,and they are not taking the pier down it will have a new use,and then open again with a food outlet to eat and have a cup of tea.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  14 May 2016     09:49313615
  #4      
  I seem to remember DHB issuing an artist's impression of a narrow T shaped pier supposed to replace the doomed one but no planning application of course.
• Guest 977

  • Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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  14 May 2016     10:17313618
  #5      
   Vic Matcham wrote:

  Give it a rest mate Dover has a very long free pier ,and they are not taking the pier down it will have a new use, and then open again with a food outlet to eat and have a cup of tea.

  
  
  It's time for you to "give it a rest" in claiming the pier will reopen. Take a look at these artists impressions from the DHB website and tell us where the public will be able to access your reopened PoW pier - it's not going to happen. There will be a Marina Curve but no details of that have yet emerged, though hopefully they will take notice of the success of the reopened Folkestone Harbour and make something decent out of it.
  
  The T-shaped pier Howard refers to is the new outer wall to the marina, it will be just a walkway with one of the upturned boat shelters at the end of it.
  
  

  

  
  
  

  
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• Guest 649

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  14 May 2016     10:54313621
  #6      
  Time will tell I am right.
• Reginald Barrington

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 17 Dec 2014
  • Posts: 3,261
  14 May 2016     16:32313626
  #7      
  Vic you are not a stupid man so why are you acting like an idiot, even a blind man can see there is no pier, please stop telling everyone to leave/drop/stop going on about it. You've said your piece so allow others to express theirs.
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  Arte et Marte
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  14 May 2016     16:45313627
  #8      
  This is the drawing I referred to in post 4.
  
  
  

  
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• Guest 649

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  15 May 2016     07:36313629
  #9      
  post seven sorry but I will keep going as long as the others do about it.
• Sue Nicholas

  • Location: river
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  15 May 2016     07:56313631
  #10      
  Richard Christian from DHB gave a very good presentation re the future development of the docks at the River Parish Council AGM..From the drawings the pier will be much shorter and curved and as Ray and Howard state completely different to what has been in the past .
• Guest 1735

  • Registered: 26 Apr 2016
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  15 May 2016     08:11313632
  #11      
  Already was a cafe on the pier Anything & something the ppl of Dover likes gets taken away from them by petty bureaucrats
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• Guest 649

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  15 May 2016     08:15313633
  #12      
  All I said that the pier will reopen with a eating outlet and I standby with what I have said.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  15 May 2016     08:51313634
  #13      
  Best to tell Tim Waggott so that he can change his plans accordingly.
• Guest 649

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  15 May 2016     08:55313635
  #14      
  No need for any of that I have already had a talk to him and other members of the D,H,B.some time ago.
• Guest 977

  • Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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  15 May 2016     09:35313638
  #15      
  It's fairly obvious he took no notice.
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• Guest 649

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  15 May 2016     11:48313641
  #16      
  Can not see any point in carrying on with this,
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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  15 May 2016     15:04313648
  #17      
  prince of wales pier is closed permantly vic.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  15 May 2016     15:19313652
  #18      
  What happens in two weeks time when the "Disney Magic" sets sail? There is no decent vantage point to see it.
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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  15 May 2016     15:41313655
  #19      
  exactly howard.
• Guest 649

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  15 May 2016     18:54313660
  #20      
  Go to the other pier and stand near it.

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