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  I used to run a shop in the De Hahn funded Old High Street/Creative Quarter and know many of the people who were down there. Sadly all that money has not meant high quality and timely delivery of works, nor anything other than p**s poor delivery of support/services to their tenants. In fact they are so poor that the majority of their tenants have either moved on to other locations in Folkestone, or gone bust, or shifted to other methods/avenues of selling their wares.
  
  Folkestone is not a model we should be looking to emulate
  
  It works in parts due mostly to having
  a larger popultaion
  a much larger middle class
  
  Its local authority is not fundamentally any better or worse than ours when it comes to service and support delivery.
  
  Dover needs to look to its own strengths and weaknesses and build on the former and eliminate the latter.
  
  We cannot rapidly change our demographic mix, but with the right use of planning controls & the right encouragement to business etc. we can make a start.
  We need to emphasise the Castle, Western Heights, White Cliffs, Roman Painted House etc.
  We need to reconnect the town to its seafront by as soon as possible putting in one or more land bridges across Townwall Street
  We need to create a sense of civic pride amongst Dovorians and talk the place up

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