Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,892
'Hoops Dover will be within 350 yards of London Road between Beaconsfield Road and Cherry Tree Avenue.
That stretch has four pizza shops, four Chinese takeaways, one tandoori restaurant, one fish and chip shop, a bakery, and a kebab shop'.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/13th-food-outlet-on-kents-takeaway-alley-to-open-within-wee-301508/"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
- Posts: 446
Good luck to him.. better then an empty shop…
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,845
It really does make you wonder if these outlets can make a living .
Although quite a few of those on London road have survived
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,016
New dentist in high St, NHS to ,so not all bad news in the high st
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 429
Frankly I would rather see empty shops than all these dreadful fast food places. No wonder our nation is so unhealthy and obese. As a regular user of the Leisure Centre I’m appalled by the young people who are storing up health problems in later life because of their size. Knee and hip replacements because of the excess weight on joints. I’ve been overweight but have addressed the problem and now feel so much fitter.
I know I’ll be shouted down but unhealthy eating habits cannot continue. We need to look at how the Japanese deal with the problem- all employers have to provide daily exercise classes for their workers.
I await the outcry against my post……..
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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not from me sir
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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Looks like the rest are with you to sir
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,845
I can see where your coming from Arthur .
Empty shops better though?
Not sure I go that far .
Looks an eyesore
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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Absolute madness - Folkestone have actually used Town Planners and Traffic Engineers to design a town centre which is is welcoming and pleasant to navigate.
Not for them a squirty hoopy thing surrounded by alkies, a latter day milk float with a number of seats driving the wrong way down Pencester and an underpass to the sea smelling of urine and failure and filled with diesel fumes.
Suprised that Folkestone was found to be the best place to live in the South East? Not really!
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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They also have a person backing them
who has over a billion pounds in the bank.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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victor matcham wrote:They also have a person backing them
who has over a billion pounds in the bank.
'The council’s project is being funded by £20 million of Levelling Up cash from the government.'
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/news/new-bridge-and-20mph-limits-how-20m-is-being-spent-transf-303621/victor matcham likes this
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,009
Good for them! What is the definition of 'levelling-up' anyway?
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,989
The term 'to level-up', according to the WGS Dictionary of Historical and Contemporary Cant, means:
'to present large-scale, fully taxpayer- (or magic money tree-) funded, hyper-real, utopian PR exercises designed to lead the gullible into believing that the reality they live in isn't the crumbling liberal dystopia they think it is, and to provide "enhancement opportunities" for the various politicians, councillors, lobbyists, designers, building contractors, accountants, marketing executives and special interest groups involved'.
Admittedly, this is from the 2023 edition, so some things may have changed.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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Dover does not have that kind of cash, but I do not think Dover looks that bad ,yes room for improvements but there will always be that.I still think ,THAT MOST of the Dover public are good folk and very helpfull to us older ones opening doors picking up shopping bags etc so Dover is OK.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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victor matcham wrote:Dover does not have that kind of cash:
Meh!
The Dover Fastrack project will be funded by:
£22.9 million grant from Homes England (awarded to Dover District Council through the Housing Infrastructure Fund designed to help stimulate new housing growth in Whitfield and at the former Connaught Barracks site)
£1.42 million from Dover District Council
£9.5 million from the Department for Transport's Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas (ZEBRA) scheme (secured by KCC, the funding is for electric buses and the required charging infrastructure for the existing Fastrack Kent Thameside services and the proposed Dover Fastrack service).
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Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
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I know this is a dreadful thing to say but It will give me immense satisfaction if Dover Priory station is unable to operate the high speed link because it will render this ridiculous road pointless. No fast trains, no point in the bus link.
We keep being told it will allow residents from Whitfield to shop in Dover…….has anyone really looked at Dover town shops recently?
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Woman gets OBE for being reasonably sucessful a long time ago and conning people into thinking she knew something about retail and town planning by proclaiming the bleeding obvious before going firstly bust and then mad, ending up giving gave Ted talks on what she calls “the kindness economy”.
"I am delighted that Mary Portas has produced such a clear vision of how we can create vibrant and diverse town centres and breathe life back into our high streets". David Cameron.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a795f2fe5274a2acd18c4a6/2081646.pdf
(Note to self - Well done on restraining yourself from saying that perhaps the problem with her marriage was the way her ex-wife couldn't hold her liquor)
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,845
Strange that it's coming out now that only 10% of levelling up funding has Been spent
It appears it costs councils £30.009 to apply
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,989
victor matcham wrote:MOST of the Dover public are good folk and very helpfull to us older ones opening doors picking up shopping bags etc...
Elementary, VM; an open door more easily allows the person picking up your shopping bag to run off with your munchies.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,016
Never happen to me.