Changes at Dartmouth?

[Joe_Cole]

I see in the paper that the Government is proposing to shut the Naval College at Dartmouth. I wonder what effect that will have on my favourite destination?

Joe

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[snowleopard]

you can bet that their facilities won't be released for civilian use! when did the MOD last give anything back?

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[Talbot]

HMS Vernon in Portsmouth was a historic anti-submarine school with a long and illustrious history. It also had good access to the harbour.

It is now Gunwharf shopping centre, and was going to be one of the entrances to the tunnel for the light railway that would have linked Portsmouth, Gosport and Fareham if the Government had not decided that it was an area with too many non-labour supporters, so they cancelled the project

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[pcv]

Hope they give the land back to the people of Devon, and with luck Ill be able to get out off old mill creek without getting run down by trainee's in launches.
But it would be sad I know lots of people who been through the collage and all speak highly of it. MDL would be able to expand though.

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[longjohnsilver]

Would make a great hotel/upmarket appartments and marina.

Personally I think it's a blot on the landscape and would bulldoze it down and turn it into a much needed multi storey car park.

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[Nickel]

Have they cancelled that light rialway link? I thought it was one of the best ideas around!

That'd be why they cancelled it no doubt!

<hr width=100% size=1>Nickel

Being paranoid simply means - having all the facts.

 

[Talbot]

<<Have they cancelled that light railway link?>>

announced today, government lackey also dropped a small clanger by starting to talk about congestion charging. So this government that has forced the councils to allow enormous amount of building on the Gosport peninsular, and not allowed any extra work on the only transport system (the roads) seems to think that they will solve the resulting congestion by introducing charging - that is about on par with a lot of their other well researched decisions /forums/images/icons/crazy.gif

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[milltech]

All those empty yellow mooring buoys may finally be made available to everyone who has been looking at them on every visit with a mixture of envy and anger.


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http://www.on-line-marine.com

 

[Neraida]

I just think it's a bit worrying that "they" are considering training our Naval Officers at the Combined Forces Facility at Shrivenham, in Wiltshire. Can't seem to place the coastline of Wiltshire??

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[StugeronSteve]

There are plans to open a state of the art shore side facility in a Calshot beach hut, this will be the main operating base for the new training fleet of tethered pedalos.



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[pessimist]

Probably safer - if the don't go to sea they can't collide with anything. Australia for instance.

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[pragmatist]

Have you noticed the odd shape of those yellow buoys ? We put it down to naval parking expertise !

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[mirabriani]

Having heard the news today of armed forces cut backs, that might not be
too far from the truth.
Briani

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[Joe_Cole]

I hope that the Harbour Authority retains the buoys and that they don't let the Marina companies get their hands on any space that's freed up on the water.

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[milltech]

Yes I think I'd agree with that, although the Harbour Authority is hardly pushing for deification themselves. As I recall the Navy has a nice bit of harbour frontage beyond the hotel that could be "marin-erd"

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http://www.on-line-marine.com

 

[maxi]

Yes, the government that refuses to give us any credible public transport system has binned the light railway link, but not before allowing it to go through the formative stages that have cost Hampshire ratepayers £10m.
Authority without responsibility is a wonderful thing.

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[cgull]

Perhaps Urban Splash could make lots of expensive apartments out of the college!

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[poter]

Hate to say this but Urban Splash is already there...
Check out the new development on the Dart Marina....all housing.
It will be cheap as well just like the Marina - £10 for a two hour stop!

Just a point, why would anyone stop in Dartmouth, when up River just beyond the Anchor stone there is another world, Dittisham.

poter.

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