Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,806
Ross Miller wrote:I understand there have been a number of conversations between Love Dover & the planning officers which has meant the plans have had to be revised as LoveDover are very keen to get this absolutely right at the first time of submission.
If that is the reason fair enough but considering LoveDover acquired the property about six months ago that means a hell of a lot of meetings or they just sat on their asset for ages and did nothing.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Went into Greggs earlier and for the second time this week they had only one person serving at peak period, normally there are three and all kept busy. A few of us waited for a bit then gave up.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,941
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,485
Dover's isn't on the list to be closed.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
A Folkestone based estate agent is taking over the unit at the front of the Charlton Centre which previously sold military memorabilia and stuff.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,941
Fortunately we already have a Dover Town Centre and Waterfront Project Advisory Group. Here's the minutes of their last meeting! (They are not allowed to meet again unless they all undertake both drug and alcohol testing apparently)
http://moderngov.dover.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx?ID=9483 … Unicorns anyone?
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,028
Credit where it's due; despite the attraction of 20-odd storeys of scaffolding, it seems Councillor Rix spoke well.
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,232
More high class hotels and shops?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Not many people in town this morning with the bitterly cold wind blowing the snow into people's faces, I wouldn't recommend anyone going out in it. Snow is settling on the hills behind me.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
There was talk a month or two back of someone wanting to take over the former Co-op building but as of today the estate agent's sign is still up, with its proximity to St James I find it surprising.
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,232
howard mcsweeney1 wrote:There was talk a month or two back of someone wanting to take over the former Co-op building but as of today the estate agent's sign is still up, with its proximity to St James I find it surprising.
With the amount of empty units in St James that's hardly surprising, let's just hope once it's fully open the remaining units will look more attractive to prospective tenants.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,860
not looking but suppose have to remain positive
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Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,741
Coopers veg shop opposite the town hall has been shut for a few weeks now with what was left in the window display slowly withering away.When i passed by this morning i noticed that someone has removed the cabbages and left the rest.How strange.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
I have notised that poppys have appeard on lamp posts from the market square to the town hall.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Centenary year of the Armistice Brian, I think our local British Legion branch are responsible for the poppies.
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Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,696
An interesting view on the high street and shops in general from Paula Nickolds CEO of John Lewis
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,941
Absolutely. Which is why building a load of sheds selling 'stuff' like at DTIZ is so far behind the curve as to be out of sight I would suggest. Just look what's happening in the USA:-
http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/12/news/companies/mall-closing/index.html "We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Guest 2418- Registered: 14 Dec 2017
- Posts: 37
Been happening for a while now in the states. Malls are failing all over the place and main streets are returning as the hubs of community. The DTIZ sheds just seem very bleak to me and I would have preferred the money being spent on our high street.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,941
PaulineQuick wrote: I would have preferred the money being spent on our high street.
On what? Just look at the failure of the Mary Portas spending (£1.2m of taxpayers' cash seeing an increase in empty shopping outlets
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/may/29/high-streets-shrink-mary-portas).
I can't think of one successful High Street in the country which is successful 'because' of council spending, they are usually successful with a mixture of demographics, urban environment, physical geography, zeitgeist and pure damn luck.
'Shopping' and the experience of going shopping is a lot more than merely 'shops'.
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Guest 2210- Registered: 16 Aug 2017
- Posts: 53
i agree that the shed part of the development is a let down and looks out of place. I do however hope that the development as a whole can be a huge help to the high street. It's been run down for so long and only held together by the fact the shops had no where else to go. Now they can relocate to St James. The empty units hopefully can be redeveloped into flats which is badly needed.
The mix of what's going into the new shopping area is reasonable and may work. A cinema, gym and coffee shop will bring in a wide range of people.
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