Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#1
Had the Whitfield news poked through the letterbox this afternoon. Usually a few interesting bits about the village as to what`s going on. I always browse through it. But, that`s what it should be about, the news of happening`s in Whitfield, NOT a circular for some Marcus to preach on behalf of the Living Well Church, (whatever that is), up here, about God, Darwinism and creationism, which he clearly know`s nothing about from his comment`s. Living well church, is this something new?
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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#2
I looked at the copy the parents got yesterday.. quite a good read normally.. but we mainly read the bit about the expansion.. tried to figure where our house in relation.. and then started plans to move again!!
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
I do not think this expansion will go ahead for some years yet or even ever,and that is good news Whitfield,and if that is the case I would like to think that my UKIP team and myself helped to bring that around.
Alec Sheldon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
- Posts: 1,037
#4
Jenni,
are you the Jenni from Homebase, The Archer and Canterbury Uni.?
Look at the thread that I started last night re Whitfield expansion in "South East plan scrapped."
#5
Dear Vic Matcham,
Please have the good manners to accept that your party UKIP has had nothing to do with the possible delay in the Whitfield development plan. We are not so desperate that we people of Whitfield need to turn to your party for any assistance. We can rely exclusively on the incompetence of Dover District Council and there associated planners!!
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#6
Mr long I have told you this before that I went along to the meeting,s and got up and done some very Straight talking to the D.D.C. and also to the planners,never once did I hear your name, I will stop there but if you would like to meet up with me and I told you this some time ago we can talk about it,if you wish.But the Development I feel will not go ahead now so that is good and the end of the matter.
#7
Vic Matcham,
It is all very well telling me that you went to DDC meetings and you did some straight talking. Incidentally I have no reason to disbelieve you , but what really matters is "WHAT WAS THERE RESPONCE" if any. Were they actually in the same room, asleep, playing poker,what?? did they even bother to open there eyes, far less there ears?? these are the important responces we need.
Not some body banging there political drum like a spoilt child.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#8
I do not like the way you talk,I think it might be a good thing for you and me to have a talk in person or by email but not on the open forum so it is over to you if you would like to meet up with me please email me.The meeting was in public in your own hall with your own local parish council there. and over a whole weekend. Anymore you would like to know about it please aske by email or on the forum.
Guest 670- Registered: 23 Apr 2008
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#9
I live in Whitfield and for the life of me I cannot understand why it is called a 'village' it is like River a suburb of Dover.
I personally don't care how many new houses they build, homes are needed especially social housing, better to have them than a fully fledged hospital which isn't really needed.
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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#10
fame at last.. but for all the wrong reasons i fear..
come on then.. admit how i should know you.. because now you have me worried.. and I shall be at the Western Heights this weekend..
Surely it would be better to be known for Christ Church, then Homebase and never the Archer!!
Have had a read now..and thank goodness.. but still it may rear its head again..
And Dave... what jobs are they presuming to go into? On top of course a PARK and Ride to Canterbury... so that Dover dies again? Ohh good lord!! We could argue about the houses in the district not being used.. certainly not sensibly... with older generation in them instead of being used for families who need them. Or we could talk about places like Buckland Mill being redeveloped.. ohh and the Churchill Hotel... the list is endless.. I am not proposing no housing, i am concerned about sustainable, as it was the housing at Whitfield didnt sell for a while..
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#11
Dave, the more senior citizens up here still refer to Whitfield as a village, and I seem to have caught it. Any other place similar to here, I would never refer to as such. Regarding houses being built up here, it will happen, and you can`t stop it, but please care about how many mate. There`s lot`s of open space and hedgerows still about for your children and future generations to enjoy, and as well as houses being built for people to live in, they`re also built for moneymaking people who don`t give a sh.. about whose environment it is.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Alec Sheldon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
- Posts: 1,037
#12
Jenni,
I think that it is a case of mistaken identity. There was a young lady on this forum called Jenni a while ago who worked in the Archer and at Homebase in the holidays and weekends to pay her way through Canterbury Uni. She lived in Whitfield with her parents.
As a customer of the Archer in those days I got to know her quite well. A lovely girl, I hope that she is doing well.
Alec Sheldon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
- Posts: 1,037
#13
Like Dave 1 I live in Whitfield and have never thought of it as a village and only a suburb of Dover.
It was a village years ago before they built Newlands, Greenfields and Beauxfields and when they built the Council offices and Tescos the village side of it went.
I think that it is a snobbish thing, people like to say that they live in a village even if they don't. Mind you there is a sign approaching Whitfield from Tescos saying "please drive carefully through the village". Strangers must think that they are going to pass through "ye olde village" with a green with cricket played on it and old rustic pubs. Some hopes.
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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#14
Post #12. I'll leave you to answer that one Jenni.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Alec Sheldon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
- Posts: 1,037
#15
Why all the secrecy?
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
- Posts: 778
#16
Alec.. whats was your poison in the Archer so the bimbo of the bar maid can remember you.. yes tis i.. the one and the same!! And getting married in August...
Thats what Ian was chuckling at...
And you must remember my darling little brother Iain.. off to Afghanistan in September..
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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#17
VIC
You realy do make yourself out to be an almighty.
to be fair, you work for the good of Dover/District MAYBE not the way I would do things but never the less you work hard.
But come on vic, theres loads people both individual, or the Whitfield action groupplus many more who have helped to stop the build.
And of course in directly this cobbled together Govt has also reviewed and helped to put it on hold.
So, come on VIC whilst im sure you and your family are proud of all the work you do, others to work hard, many don';t need to post about it.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
#18
Vic, also the White Horse Invicta helped! Read my thread on the Wealden Econpmy.
Kent escaped mass industrialisation once, hopefully we will escape mass immigration!
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
#19
I did not say, they did not,nor did I say I done it,all I said "I done my best to try and get it stoped and that is all I said."
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#20
let us not forget that our new honourable member gave support to the whitfield action group.