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    Very interesting post Andrew. I understand the frustration people must be feeling up there in Whitfield. To be faced with an influx of urbanisation is a horrible prospect.

    So although I am in harmony with you there as I myself have stated in the past I deplore the prospect of Dover turning into a kind of 'new town'...a sort of Milton Keynes by the sea. Anyone ever been to Milton Keynes? I have.

    But let me act as Devil's Advocate for a minute on behalf of the DDC. Wasn't it a dictum from central government that something like 30,000 homes have to be built in the region. Dover and I suppose primarily Whitfield has been earmarked for 14,000 as I understand it. Judging by what Paul Watkins said in the past they (the DDC) see this as a route to prosperity. People coming to live here needing more jobs, needing more shops, needing more schools, needing more infrastructure and no doubt all paid for by central government. All these new homes with 30,000 or 40,000 inhabitants will spend money shopping in Dover, will have enough spending power to warrant bowling alleys and cinemas opening.

    Of course Im not a spokesperson for DDC but I reckon something akin to the above would be their spin on it.

    The downside is that the character of Dover will change forever. Green fields turning into housing estates, and Whitfield destroyed as the residents know and love it and so on.

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