Dover Pride
¥ Securing strategic involvement
in the Dover Priory Station
Interreg-funded project
¥ Generating a positive
message for change through
urban renaissance
Nine catalytic projects will help
to achieve the vision and deliver
the transformational actions of
improving skills, raising economic
activity, improving infrastructure
and education-led regeneration.
Projects
Dover Waterfront is set to become
a thriving, lively and popular
destination with the potential
development of a new marina, hotel,
residential, commercial, retail and
leisure uses. This mixed use site
will sit alongside the planned £300
million Port of Dover expension
It is estimated that the current
projects will provide around £500
million of investment, creating
and safeguarding over 5,500 jobs,
as well as creating many new
businesses and developing over
15,000 square metres of commercial
space. Other benefits include
creating over 800 new residential
units, reclaiming over 35 hectares
of brownfield land and upskilling
over 6,000 local people.
The Dover Pride Regeneration
Partnership has already achieved
the following:
¥ Successful lobbying of the
government for a prompt
planning decision on the
White Cliffs Business Park
¥ Successful lobbying of the
government for early action
on the Dover Town Investment
Zone, a town centre site
¥ Securing significant investment
from SEEDA and English
Partnerships for Dover
Town Centre
¥ Successful lobbying of
government departments to
secure the extension of the
High Speed Rail Link from
London to Dover, and reject
the application for an Open
Prison at Connaught Barracks
The regeneration of the town is being orchestrated by Dover
Pride, the multi-agency regeneration partnership for Dover.
The partnership is committed to secure long term regeneration
of the town by combining work from key agencies and
stakeholders to drive forward a broad range of projects while
also renewing a sense of pride in the community.
Dover Waterfront
is set to become
a thriving, lively and
popular destination
Cannon Street
Dover Sea Sports centre

public spaces and improve
orientation around the town.
This strategy provides the
physical linkage between all
the major projects and will be
transformational for the town.
The first of these projects to
start is Dover Priory Station. The
station interior has already been
modernised to provide improved
facilities in readiness for the High
Speed Link coming to Dover in 2009,
and the work around the station
is being planned. The station
approach will become a high quality,
pedestrian orientated environment,
fitting for an international gateway.
Dover Sea Sports Centre will be
a centre of national significance
for a range of sea sports, delivering
training and development
opportunities. This landmark building
in its superb seafront location was
completed in Spring 2008.
Connaught Barracks will be a mixed
used development of the highest
quality design and environmental
standards. This environmentally
sustainable residential-led
redevelopment scheme is located to
the north of Dover town centre and
adjacent to Dover Castle. Connaught
Barracks covers an area of 56
hectares, of which 12.5 ha is suitable
for the development of up to 500
new homes. The remaining land
includes large areas of open space
and an English Heritage Scheduled
Ancient Monument, Fort Burgoyne.
These projects will help ensure
that by 2035 Dover will be one of
the most prosperous towns on the
south coast, characterised by a
highly skilled and enterprising
community that is proud of its town,
its port and its heritage.
Contact:
Dover Pride Programme Team
Tel: 01304 872162
www.doverpride.org.uk
plan for the Western Docks, due
for completion in 2013 and
already home to DoverÕs two
cruise terminals.
Dover Town Investment zone in
the St JamesÕ area is a major urban
renewal programme, led by Dover
District Council, to turn a run
down town centre site into a large,
retail led, mixed use development
comprising food and non-food retail,
residential, hotel and restaurant
uses. It is hoped that this complex
site will be developed by 2010.
Buckland Mill, led by SEEDA, will
include conversion of the existing
mill buildings and listed house
alongside an extensive residential
development of Eco Homes,
excellent houses and apartments,
community facilities and
employment provision. The River
Dour runs through the centre of
this site and has been opened up
to provide a riverside walk both for
residents and those passing through
the area. This development should
be completed by 2012.
White Cliffs Business Park is
currently undergoing construction
to provide 130,000 sq m of new
commercial space. The business
park will provide a prime business
location with the advantage of
excellent links to the continent.
South Kent College, DoverÕs further
education college, the Police and
PCT are all located in Mid Town.
Close to the main shopping area
and with the River Dour running
through the heart of the site, Mid
Town has potential to become a
vibrant riverside mixed-use location.
Led by Kent County Council
on behalf of the Dover Pride
partnership, the Public Realm
Strategy has identified nine key
sites around the town that could be
enhanced to provide better quality
Dover Waterfront
future