The Hobbs Parker Blogs

New Avaya systems have been installed by the company into Estuary View Medical Centre and Kent International Airport (KIA) at Manston.

Estuary View is one of a new breed of ‘super surgeries’ which opened recently in Whitstable and is an innovative, integrated healthcare facility offering many services usually associated with hospital outpatient and diagnostic departments.

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It has to be a sure bet. Arena Leisure, owners of seven racecourses nationwide, have undertaken a unique partnership with Marriott Hotels at Lingfield Park Racecourse to open the country’s first-ever hotel, conference centre, golf, spa, leisure and racecourse venue. Doors open for business in May 2010.

As you can imagine from such a high-end partnership, the Lingfield Park Marriott Hotel & Country Club looks set to be a glittering and highly successful enterprise. The mission statement for their guests is ‘At Your Service’ and in order to fulfil this ambition, Arena Leisure and Marriott have contracted a Kent based company, Hobbs Parker Telecom, to fit the resort with the ultimate telecommunications package.

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We all know someone who has traded in their battered old banger under the government’s scrappage scheme and is now driving around in a shiny new car, happy at the thought of ‘saving’ £2,000.

According to government reports, the scheme has been a huge success, pumping nearly £400 million into the beleaguered car industry and removing over 370,000 fume-polluting cars from the environment.

But the scheme has had other affects too, not least in the second-hand car market.  Suddenly there’s a real shortage of quality used cars and a dearth of the old run-arounds that were perfect for newly qualified and first-time drivers.

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Hobbs Parker announce a new breed of home buyer attracted to Ashford:

Estate agents traditionally expect the home-buying market to pick up in spring and as Britain emerges from recession the early signs for 2010 in Ashford and the surrounding areas are good.

The new High Speed 1 train link to London – starting to be known locally as ‘The Bullet’ - is already a massive attraction for potential commuters, but Ashford based estate agents, Hobbs Parker, have found their books filling with a new demographic of buyer.  A buyer not generally seen in the South East before: Londoners who currently live ‘north of the river’ and plenty from the East End too.

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I recently attended a briefing in London on the future of the planning system, in the context of the recently published Conservative Green Paper (“Open Source Planning”).

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