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  Sid
  
  You summed it up correctly.
  
  The order of events was that the powers that be made a decision to put it in the middle of the town then a sham of expensive public consultations and a lot of money spent getting a full design before a further decision (without consultation) to put it in the most awkward out of the way situation with bad access on a site that should be housiing land instead of green fields.
  
  It wasnt a minority that saw the light - 30000 petition, a public rally of over 1500 and at every consultation meeting the majority of the public shouting for Whitfield on an area ready and zoned for industrial where even Nadim Aziz stated that 50% of the population of Dover went shopping to each week. To where the bus station has be relocated and where the new Grammar schools will go as well a the new sports centre.
  
  You are quite right that the hospital should serve the district as parking is crucial and expansion must be considered.
  
  The decisions about delay and argument are ridiculous as no-one in Authority is taking ANY notice of the people but acting on their own agendas.
  
  At one meeting when it was pointed out that the new Clinic at maison dieu was to have inadequate parking a DDC rep said that patients should walk or catch a bus to it!! He patently doesnt live in the real world.
  
  Its all a farce intended to give Dover a second class result and no doubt the change of venue has little to do with flood risk but more to do with the PCT having misspent the funds elsewhere - or if not why is there no consultation about this location.
  
  A proper location with space to grow acessible to all the district and linked to Deal and aylesham as well as good links to Ashford is so obvious one can only ask why. Did you see how gridloccked Dover can be - even a helicopter cant land there!
  
  The decision makers should be held to account as extortionate sums have been wasted.

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