Development Dover Town Council
31st August 2024 / 29th September 2024 by Editorial Team
Oh Dear ! The developers constructing on the steep area by the allotments on Folkestone Road have decided to go way beyond the planning application conditions. This is a development by Enzo’s Homes. Why would these developer get the idea that planning conditions don’t matter ? Is it due to the announcements about pleasing developers […]
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Development News
11th May 2024 / 11th May 2024 by Editorial Team
What was especially sickening in news of Elphicke’s defection to Labour, was to hear that Elphicke ‘has been offered a role advising Labour on housing’ (BBC-SE TV 6pm). So self-interest from Elphicke, a new low in UK politics. Her welcome from Keir Starmer doesn’t reflect well on the Labour front bench either. Green Party MP […]
Development
20th July 2023 / 20th July 2023 by Editorial Team
Dover & Deal Green Party congratulate Friends of Betteshanger following their campaign against a planning application from Quinn Estates for Betteshanger Country Park. We share their statement here: On 13th July 2023, Dover Planning Committee rejected the application by Quinn Estates to build a luxury Hotel on Betteshanger Country Park. They are to be congratulated […]
27th February 2023 / 4th March 2023 by Editorial Team
Letter published in Dover Express 23 Feb 2023: Protecting farmland and food security matters in these tough times. Cutting fuel poverty by making all the homes within our existing East Kent towns healthy and cheap-to-heat matters just as much. We Green campaigners did a door-to-door survey before Christmas in Sholden’s older and newer streets and […]
12th October 2022 by Editorial Team
We desperately need investment in our local communities to insulate our homes and workplaces, to provide local jobs for local people, to provide clean and cheap renewable energy and to recover our depleted nature and weakening food systems. Our areas have crumbling services, from social care to local public transport. Locally agreed investment priorities, with […]
12th July 2022 / 6th August 2022 by Editorial Team
In March 2021, Dover and Deal Green Party put in a comprehensive 15 page response to the new local plan, suggesting a number of ways that it could become a Local Plan better able to resolve social injustices, better able to protect and restore a depleted natural environment, and become a Plan with genuine 'climate […]
29th October 2021 / 20th March 2022 by Editorial Team
The Royal Institute for Foreign Affairs, Chatham House issued a risk assessment on 14 Sept 2021 which makes grim reading. They say our world is currently on course for worse levels of global climate disturbance than were targeted, (2.7 to 3degrees of warming), with only 1% chance of meeting 1.5 degrees warming targeted by UN […]
25th August 2021 / 20th March 2022 by Editorial Team
By Cllr Mike Eddy, Deal Town Council, Walmer Council For those following Dover District Council’s Planning Committee decisions, a brief article in the latest Private Eye (no. 1554 for 20 August to 2 September, page 15) will make interesting reading. The bulk of the article concerns planning applications made by Gladmans in Wiltshire and nearby […]
22nd April 2021 / 20th March 2022 by Editorial Team
Dover and Deal Green Party was contacted by residents of Mongeham on Sun 18th April about a plan to install an airstrip on farmland between Mongeham and Northbourne. We looked into it and could see how the claims that this was a project for zero carbon electric planes was a twist on the real story. […]
1st August 2020 / 3rd September 2020 by Editorial Team
On 24 July, news of Conservative Central Govt plans to impose 4 huge clearance lorry parks on East Kent was leaked to the public. One of the sites, which plans to cater for 1200 HGVs, is WhiteCliffs Business Park, Whitfield. Another is Manston airport, to cater for 5800 vehicles. Both will have a huge impact […]
13th April 2020 / 3rd September 2020 by Editorial Team
Introduction by Peter Cutler: Recently Quinn Estates has acquired Betteshanger Park (country park + sustainable park) from the Education Commissioners through a fire sale caused by the mismanagement of Hadlow College. The result is the end of a viable publicly funded scheme (140,000 trees and shrubs planted) and the transfer of resources to the private […]
23rd March 2019 / 13th April 2020 by Editorial Team
Dover District Council (DDC) should use all its planning powers to ensure: more trees are planted there are electric car points for all new houses buildings are as far as possible insulated to the highest standards buildings are carbon neutral. DDC should resist any pressure from developers to build fast to lower standards. We will take […]
3rd November 2018 / 13th April 2020 by Editorial Team
Social housing, that is, homes that people can rent at a fair price, either from public or private owners, is different from affordable housing (a larger category including home ownership for people who can get a mortgage). The amount of social housing has dropped dramatically since the 1980’s when the Conservative government forced councils to […]
