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  I sat down in front of the viewing screen this morning and enjoyed a croissant with my daughter. Watched a bit of music and saw a full diary of events happening. It is a good device for promoting the town and events. I really can't see any negatives (although I would have personally prefered it in the park!)
  
  However I will say although it may, in time, attract a few more leisure establishments to the market square it will never do much to improve the urban quality of the market square. Dover market square will never be like a piazza and even does a fairly poor job at being a market square. I had some friends stay at the weekend and we took a stroll down to the regatta to clear our heads. They pointed out the lack of place provided by the market square, and lets face it, it doesn't really have the feel of a market square....it merely possesses that title. They also remarked on the absolute lack of dialogue between the seafront and town, something we are all aware of. They then concluded that Dover planning department must be a little questionable in competence, using the Woolworths building as a good descriptor of this!

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