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Paul
Thanks. I don't believe I said anything about Whitfield - you know how I feel about that, I think! - but I was referring to the DTIZ..... I know there's more about that than the Encyclopaedia Britannica, but essentially the point I was trying to put across in my addled way was that the DTIZ is foundering in its own history. There seem to be so many entrenched opinions, reports, rumours, counter rumours and plain lies that I believe we not only need to start over, we need to do so with people who seem to have some very valid forward-thinking ideas about them. That's how I see it, and your point that Thanet has four times the poulation of Dover is all well and good, but I see that as precisely the sort of stumbling block that would be presented as a reason to prevent any decent development.
And, you say that Westwood is killing the town centres, presumably as an analogy against a similar development at Whitfield doing the same to Dover town centre; have you seen the town centre recently? The town centre is slowly dying as it is.
What I'd like to see is a development in the DTIZ area that is on a more modest scale than Westwood Cross that would stimulate Dover town centre rather than a massive development at Whitfield that would kill it, and I believe there are people in the town that could bring it about.
Just for clarity's sake, Paul, I take it that you mean the Folkestone town centre development being an economic and planning setback is referring to the devlopment being a setback for Dover on the grounds that we cannot compete with it?