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Some of you might or might not wish to read the letter I have just got from the Dept For Transport ,even some of you might have had the same letter,anyway.
Dear Mr Matcham
Port of Dover.
Following your comments on the proposal by Dover Harbour Board,I am writing to inform you that the decision Minister,the Rt Hon Simons Burns MP,has reached a decision.
After careful consideration of the degree to which the transfer scheme proposed by Dover Harbour Board met the Secretary of State for Transfer Guidance Note concerning procedure for the sale of trust ports,which was published in August 2011,the Minister decided not to confirm the transfer scheme from the Board.
The Minister concluded that the transfer scheme proposed would not ensure a sufficient level of enduring community participation in the port.He also concluded that so far as the Board made the application in order to able to optain the additional finance necessary to undertake the proposed redevelopment of the Western Docks,there were other options available to secure that development.
Yours sincerely Erum Mussa. Policy Advisor.
So the way I read it there will be no sell off of the port and the plan for the P/P is dead just like D.H.B. plan, and now it will be up to the D.H.B. to get loans etc to redevelopment the port when they think they need to,and that could be some years ahead yet. So they will get the time to get the funding needed to take the port forward.And that is what will happen,and the port and its 400years is safe within the R/Charter,as I and others have said it would be.