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Sid.
There are people looking at the bigger picture and that forms part (most) of the future regeneration plans for Dover, but what Dover Town needs now, is ground-floor support - like tidying up the run-down dilapidated buildings around the Town, marketing and promoting the Town to a wider audience, more than just to Dover people.
Brightening up the Town with hanging baskets - the black flower-tubs I had replanted in the early part of the new year, now look very jaded and need refreshing/replanting.
Who is going to do this ? I did when I had the job, but I doubt if the current incumbent will do so; I doubt his boss will let him.
Litter, safe-shopping, new signs to the Town etc. I had a whole range of initiatives that I was working on - all at what I consider the ground-floor; of course helping the businesses on a day to day basis, on a range of things, from marketing to business rates and from fire-risk assessments to finding tenants for empty offices/business space etc. etc.
More and more shops are closing because none of them feel there is any help with their own business, or the Town, which is in fact, sadly, the case, there isn't anyone who really cares, cares enough to put themselves out, not just a 9 to 2pm guy.
None of the above is sour-grapes - sad ones maybe, but not sour.
Roger
