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  Barry
  
  How can the "jobs first/homes first" thing not be an issue? I accept that you're all for this development from a business perspective, but to simply deny it as an issue is burying ones head in the sand. Of course it's an issue, perhaps the most pertinent issue surrounding the debate: without realistic employment opportunities, who's going to buy a house in the area? Without a realistic sales forecast, what developer is going to build massive numbers of new houses?
  
  There are better ways to signal that Dover is open for business than to build a new town - like, for example, getting some businesses here that would offer jobs in the numbers that warrant such a huge development and destroying our beautiful countryside. I agree it's a chicken & egg situation, but it most definitely is an issue.

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