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Andrew Garrett and Vic, I'll have to make a combined reply as you each brought up similar views but with a few different issues attached.
Firstly, 500 signatures were gathered in a petition that had only 2 hours time to be done, as allowed by Kent Highways.
A door to door petition by way of post-free return leaflets to a specific address, for example the Community Secretary, could well have tens of thousands of signatures.
The 500 figure is just a 2 hour sample done in two streets of Dover.
Secondly, DPPT got 1,000 signatures of membership, according to their own statements, in a 2 year period.
There is a very big difference there compared to 2 hours!
Thirdly, as Andrew G. perhaps would like to turn the cards around on the table and give wrong impressions of what I and others here have been stating, no-one in the pro-Western Heights group (Lara etc.), and myself included, has suggested that Londoners should not be allowed to move to Dover.
The issue is, we have plenty of accommodations in Dover on the housing estate market, to be sold or rented, and people can make a decision to buy or rent a house here if they qualify in whatsoever way, financially or whatever, by choosing among the AVAILABLE accommodations.
BUT, many people in Dover do not want settlements being built on Western Heights and in Farthingloe for WHOMSOEVER to move into, be they Dovorians, Londoners, Eskimos, and no matter what ethnic background they have.
PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF THIS ANDREW GARRET - it is not an ethnic issue, but an issue concerning PROTECTED AREAS, namely AONB (Farthingloe) and SAM (Western Heights).