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  I am sure that I have mentioned before that there have in the past been offers for parts of the site, and I am sure that with the proper work in contacting potential investors such offers could be sought again. My personal dislike of such monolithic and community destructive organisations aside, I do think that there are also a lot of planning and design issues with this proposal that could do with addressing. If, as DDC's oft repeated mantra would have us all believe, a cheap supermarket is all that is on offer (and you can be sure they have stopped looking) then at the very least a design should have been sought that would be more conducive to attracting visitors into the town. The present design presents visitors with a large white slab, that you know will bear a large corporate logo, that effectively walls off the town. This plan does include a small number of smaller retail outlets to let that will be hidden away around the back. In order to salvage something of benefit to the town I would have prefered to see a more open design that could have been more attractive from the main road and shown that there was a selection of outlets available. How difficult would it have been to insist on a design that made more use of us being the gateway to Britain rather than a cold, remourseless interpretation of the White Cliffs? If we did have to wait another fifty years I for one can certainly think of some more attractive options for the site than just leaving it as it is.

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