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I though when I heard the announcement on Sunday about the proposed new housing at Ebbsfleet that it was "old" news.
I was not aware of the plans for the Theme park, hope they build it soon.
John | 17.03.14 - 7:32 a.m. | #
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Hmm, I thought, houses in a quarry on a flood plain. Perfect.
Bet that theme park never gets built.
Sarah | Homepage | 17.03.14 - 8:22 a.m. | #
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...why build a "new town" in the South-East? ...surely it over-crowded as it is? ...why not build it far up North somewhere? ...maybe house prices and profits figure in the maths more than building affordable housing? ...and is 15,000 really good enough? ...is not 150,000 more near the mark of what is required? ...so many questions. but least i not mentioned anything about buses today. :)
E | 17.03.14 - 9:40 a.m. | #
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With Sarah on this one. I mean, all the flooding this winter, and they're planning a town, on a river bank, and in a quarry!!!
So will they be building in adequate flood prevention and minimalisation (sorry) measures? Or will these be skimped as 'too expensive' and future home owners/occupiers left to pay?
Gah!
Bronchitikat | 17.03.14 - 11:13 a.m. | #
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I may be wrong, but I don't think the site for the new "garden city" is the quarry next to Bluewater, I think it's closer to the station. Certainly plans have been mooted for the Bluewater site for some time but with no visible work undertaken.
Waterhouse | 17.03.14 - 11:45 a.m. | #
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The quarry was mentioned in the Radio 4 report on the new 'garden city'. They also said it would be in 'the garden of England'. If Kent is the garden of England, I suppose Dartford is the bit where you put the dustbins.
Sarah | Homepage | 17.03.14 - 12:21 p.m. | #
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DG - I suggest that you relegate your 2001 Ordnance Survey map to the archives of interesting historical works of reference.
Investing in a new 2014 map might well save you much energy and angst in the exploring days ahead.
Petras409 | 17.03.14 - 2:38 p.m. | #
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I love the bleak melancholy of the riverbank around here, which does make for atmospheric photographs... I also seem to have got a similar impression of the populace of this area in the past, too, which adds further to the bleakness and vague sense of misery and despair.
The theme park idea keeps being bandied around this broad area (north and south of the river) - MGM had plans earlier on to build one on Rainham Marshes, but that was prior to HS1. North Kent is hardly Portmeiron, though - a zombie or horror movie theme might work best of all.
Dominic H | 17.03.14 - 4:29 p.m. | #
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It's not often I read one of your posts and am left feeling totally underwhelmed, but Dartford has managed it! I'm glad you went there, so I don't have to!
CornishCockney | 17.03.14 - 11:17 p.m. | #
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Hey, I've been down that way a couple of times in the last month or so.
I also saw the road leading into the new Ingress Park estate and was drawn in to take a closer look. I'd have to say that the palace looks impressive and imposing as you pass by the front of it, but - for the moment at least - it's probably better not to see it from the back.
The thing that surprised me most was finding that Ingress Park wasn't the only new development but was just one of a number springing up in the area.
I was also surprised by the marshes in terms of coming across quite a bit of evidence that this had clearly once been a busy landing point along the riverside. Obviously some major change must have taken place to leave it so desolate and forgotten now.
RogerW | 19.03.14 - 11:34 a.m. | #
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The place is an absolutely dire shit-hole which you have encapsulated rather well.
I would rather sit in a room eating tin foil while people scratched their fingernails down a blackboard than live anywhere there.
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The Gravesend temperature stats are just a foretaste of things to come. This year’s daily measurement of atmospheric CO2 has already reached 400ppm. Last year it didn’t reach that level until May.
Here’s the graph: http://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/
And here’s the brief comment: http://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/comment-on-recent-readings-in-excess-of-400-ppm/
Great Aunt Annie | 20.03.14 - 7:05 a.m. | #
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The "but the site is generally wide open to the elements" hyperlink to the www.mikeseaborne.com page is very much wide open to somewhere none of us need to be. Best deleted without checking, unless you have bullet proof virus checking.
JonF | 07.04.22 - 9:19 a.m. | #
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Hyperlink deleted, thanks.
(I have no idea why)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 07.04.22 - 11:45 a.m. | #
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