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  I have raised the issue of the high street and it's 'neither one thing or another' existance before. Paul you may be able to look at the layout of the town as possessing the same mass/layout but it's the post war inconsistancies that provide some of the most awkward points. Behind Rooks being a classic example. As well as that, by saying the plan has not changed since 1800 just exposes how unfit for purpose it probably is. Dover, like most towns, did not have the benefit of Inigo Jones or Ebeneeza Howard to produce a wonderfully planned town in it's industrial booms. Most places however used the post war years (and even up to more recent years eg Portsmouth) to change for purpose, using town planning effectively. We still have the organic pre-war town with extra infrastucture problems tacked on....not good and not addressed.
  
  Yes I'd like to see a functioning market square but it's a balance of definition and usage not just one or the other. Andrew, I cannot help but feel you see my negativity as non-productive. My negativity is to the current and not to the prospect of a better town. How clinging to twee concepts of the past is fresh I'm not sure? I would dearly love to see some imagination applied to our town. It's interesting you mention the market hall something that I would almost define as an arcade and fits very well with the 'market square as piazza' idea. However it is the absense of that kind of element, along with the roads, that really stops the market square having any real feel!

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