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Andrew you said the post was brilliant I think that is not the right word for that post, the word that comes to me is SAD it is so sad that we have come to this and alot of what is wrote in both the letters are right I also born in What I now call DOVOR been here all my life apart from my time in the army and working away and the town has never been so bad as it is today and I CAN NOT SEE IT GETING ANY BETTER FOR SOME TIME YET, I am only talking about the town all around it in the district it is very nice apart from the rubbish left about. DOVOR has lost its I.D. we are not a community any longer and that this just one of the problems and there are lots more we need more good family homes and stop building all the one bed room flats like the ones now going up all around the town, Events do help to get the public out and talking to each other.
Also the council must help to keep the town cleaner than it is they must get owners of the closed shops to keep them painted and clean and some of them do have the funds to do it, like the M/ Charitys in London Rd the council can use the law to do this,so do they not do so.The District council do have a cllr of empty propertys what is he or she doing about it.
It would help if more of the public went to meetings and send more letters asking more questions and did not take a no for an answer make bth the councils more answerable to the public after all it is our funding, but will this happen in our town I can not see it.The policing of our town both day and night is poor even very poor again it is our funding paying for it all, antisocial is still very high go down thw town at nights do see police walking around it is a no to that. Do you fill safe walking around at night it is a no to that to.
I read in the Dover District COUNCIL AT YOUR SERVICE NEWSLETTER, Building a BRIGHT fUTURE, WELL I am sorry to say after years telling us where is it.I do think we have the right council in place at the district but they show us the goods they keep talking about.
I have in front of me at this time the policing of Kent and reading it makes me fill good in what they tell us But in the real world it is not true yes the police on the beat are doing the best they can
but there is still alot more that can be done. I wrote a letter some time ago to Mr fULLER who is the ChiefConstable of the Kent police say he should call it a day and go when he first came to Kent and I was at that meeting he went on to say as from now it will be Zero tolerance to criminals and anti- social behaviour that has not happen he is the Captain of the ship the butt stops with him so again it is time for him to go, he is a great P.R., person but what we need is agood old fashion copper with the good old ways of dealing with it all, and there are still some about in the U.K. and they are doing well.
And I fill very sorry for the person that Andrew is posting about and she is not the only one that feels that way.
Vic matcham
