I think I ought to claim copyright on this
as I originally suggested the truck park scenario to Andrew a year or two ago, to his obvious horror
I have never though there was some organised conspiracy to effect the entruckment of the town centre, just that a gradual migration up to Whitfield could be the town's long term fate and that the port is starting to swallow up the town.
And that DDC needs to understand what is happening and realise that every development at Whitfield sucks life out of Dover even more. What I believe we will get is a typically English fudge where both Whitfield (at Dover's expense) and the town are developed, with Whitfield eventually winning.
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