Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
That is a fact .
At a public meeting last night I got up and asked the DHB this"The the plan of a P/P of Dover port is it now dead and will the port remain a trust port for ever.?
And it is a yes to that we was told the port will now move ahead with its plans and giving more support to the town it will stay a trust port and will remain so,
Is that not what I and others have been saying for many years never never was it going to be any other way.
The P/P port plan as I said years ago was dead before it got a foot off the ground,
So one must aske why did the Town Council use £1000s of public money in supporting it, because that is what they done it was town cllrs that were going around asking the public to support it.
It was the town council that funded the vote in the town wards for that plan with only getting back 5000votes out of 28000 then saying they had the support to move ahead with the plan,and asking members of the public for £10 each to help fund the plan .
So will they now get back that £10 I think that might be a NO to that have the planners still got that amount put by?.
The one good thing out of that plan it might have got the D.H.B.thinking more about the town.
But as the rules was then they could not help the town anymore ways then it was,
But now we will see the setup of the D.H.B. working with the D.D.C. more on how and what the port can do for the town by working with each other.
The persons behind the plan of the P/P of Dover did not do it for any gain for themselves it was to try and help the town and they worked hard in trying to do that.
But I do not understand why they was thinking they were going to win.
I do not have much Gray matter in the head but even I could see it was never going to happen as I have said for years look at Black and white not the colours first.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#2
it was stated at the outset that should the dppt not come into being that any remaining money left over from the tenners would go to a charity/charities in the district.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
That's ok I did not put in £10 my self and would not have aske for it back anyway .
But the post was not about that in main thinking over that again maybe I should not have put that in.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#4
Must say nothing coming back from members behind the fallen plan of the p/p of Dover so thy must now agree with myself.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#5
Sorry Vic, I was out visiting Sue on the sea front, supporting someone who has the b*lls to start a new business in Dover.
The DPPT is not dead, far from it. Remember that all we have so far from the minister and DHB is words. We remain on the sidelines with the aim of keeping the DHB honest, and to make sure that those words are turned into deeds. While not all we wanted has been achieved, we did set out to stop the port from being flogged off to Johnny Foreigner, and to change its aims and objects to benefit the town. I think we have achieved both, the first for the time being - unless the Ports Act is repealed, the threat of sale under a future government still exists - and we shall remain there to ensure the second is delivered. The one thing we did not achieve was to deliver the port into local community ownership in perpetuity. We shall work on that. It's been 5 years so far, we don't care if it takes another 20. Regarding the £10, all of us on the DPPT have spent far more than that in getting us to where we are today.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#6
So you did not get what you set out to get, you can dress it up in anyway you wish but I do not care.
It will stay a Royal Trust port run by the D.H.B. that is what I said would happen years ago and told that to the MP Mr Wiggins and you in your drinking bunker under the path in Castle st.Right from day one.