howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I always expected it to be sold for housing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Confusing for the public with KCC owning a hospital and the NHS owning a street full of houses, nevertheless a good result in the end.
http://www.dover-express.co.uk/Dementia-village-Dover-Randolph-Road-homes-near/story-29319577-detail/story.htmlSue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I have read the report in the Dover Expresss re the forthcoming sale of the former Buckland hospital site.There are comments from our MP.Now. I may appear ,dim but he is suggesting the site is contaminated (there are a few around our district),so is not suitable for housing so why would it be for an in bed facility?
There is a plan for more housing in St Radigunds so that is why the new Health facility should have been built elsewhere as with the industrial site located nearby and large Lorries unable to travel under the railway bridge ,the planners have got it wrong.
If the Health facility had gone in town we perhaps would have the facilities required.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I don't think the idea from KCC is a good one.If they wanted homes for people suffering from dementia there must be better sites .For those quick to pick on River ,I mean elsewhere in the District.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
I doubt there is another location in the district with so many empty houses together.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,256
There's only about 10 houses not very many, the rest of the street is virtually all young families who will be concerned, there's a footpath from over the valley lots of Astor and Grammar students use it, perhaps not the best environment for dementia sufferers.
Arte et Marte
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Precisley Reg .Not the best location.Allow young families to live there until they can move up the ladder.Looking over.a Health facility and a building site is not compatible to dementia sufferers .
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,256
The old nurses housing would make a better location more privacy and security and space for communal gardens, meeting/gathering areas and shop facilities also less escape routes
Arte et Marte
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Yes you are correct much nicer with gardens etc .
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Do we know what is planned for the former nurses quarters?
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
The most contaminated part of the whole site is the section directly fronting Cooombe Valley Rd- ? Xray in main building excluded.
The building included the former boiler house & laundry areas.
Reckon they are marketing a most difficult development area.
Local people have been sold down the river on the site by direct sale.
Goes against ALL previous discussions.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,538
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
I bet the building will be forgotten about and in a few years put on the market again.