Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,798
It is so easy to do, even I can managed to copy and paste, the following was on her FB page.....
'Parklets'
After I saw them in place I ask for a meeting with the KCC department concerned to discuss them. The money was supplied by the Active Travel Fund, a government initiative.
The are two sets in place and another one going in today near Iceland, I have asked that the remaining two sets are held back for now
After the meeting I was sent the answer below to help clarify. Any comments or views regarding this should be sent to Transport Innovations at KCC or on twitter @KentSchoolRun or online at
www.kent.gov.uk
""They parklets are currently unfinished.
We are looking forward to beginning engagement with local groups/artists/schools in the coming weeks as lockdown gets easier and hope that we will be able to invite design ideas and begin collating these so that the final designs can be chosen by Dover’s community, and implemented
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,926
' ................... hope that we will be able to invite design ideas and begin collating these so that the final designs can be chosen by Dover’s community, and implemented'
Here's mine fwiw.
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,741
They just need graffiti now to brighten them up.
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 433
That’s already in the pipeline as they’re described as not yet finished but will be done so in conjunction with local artists!
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,002
Jan Higgins wrote:""We are looking forward to beginning engagement with local groups/artists/schools in the coming weeks...
As so often in nominally democratic systems, the horse follows the cart into a ditch.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,002
Button wrote:I'd find a loo of much more benefit than a parklet - seriously.
No doubt many would. But, as far as I can tell, the fund doesn't allow for it. The schemes are designed to 'lock in' certain 'green' behaviours that our wise leaders claim to have observed since they locked us up and closed us down: reduced car use, more cycling, more walking. The prevention of the spectacle of high numbers of folk hopping about town with crossed legs and full bladders and no means of quick relief isn't a cause the ideologues will carry a flag for.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,798
From Pauline's FB post........"The money was supplied by the Active Travel Fund, a government initiative."
I would like to know what these parklet seats and planter monstrosities have to do with the above fund unless they are planted with Triffids plants and seats do not usually raise up and travel.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,002
They are to force you to behave in a manner that's acceptable to the authorities.
A recent scheme in Westgate-on-Sea included 'changes to the parking bays, to encourage walking and cycling... using parklets, planters and bolted down bollards (delineators) to reallocate road space.' This was done 'to promote social distancing and increase walking and cycling opportunities.'
The scheme was eventually upended after intervention from 'local KCC members, the town council and the local MP.' But the local authorities will continue to impose them as they 'give us the opportunity to lock in some of positive travel patterns we have seen during the pandemic' [KCC's grammatical error, not mine].
https://www.kent.gov.uk/roads-and-travel/road-projects/in-progress-road-projects/emergency-active-travel-fund-schemes/highway-emergency-active-travel-fund-projects#tab-65'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 344
For £90k they could surely have afforded to paint them.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,858
It brings me back to
Who's running these councils
The elected members
Or
Unelected officers?
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,926
"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,858
Officers then
As we have still to hear from our elected cllrs
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,798
Keith Sansum1 wrote:Officers then
As we have still to hear from our elected cllrs
Does Pauline's comment not count, I thought she was a councillor.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,018
Keith Pauline has posted a response .She is a KCC Councillor
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,858
Can I ask where please
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,018
Turn to the previous post Jan kndky copied and posted it .
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,018
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,858
So I was correct its the unelected officers making the decisions
Why bother voting
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,478
The chippy up from the Town Hall looks like its been turned into residential property, whilst next door the Marmaris has presumably changed hands and is now the Marina BBQ Meze Bar.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,858
Long 20 years ahead
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