Well there you go.
The De Bradelei was of course being set up by DHB just at the same time as DDC were turning down an application to build the incredibly sucessful McArthurGlen Design Outlet at Whitfield which would have been in direct competition with it (Home to 82 international brands at up to 60% less, this retail business is aiming high; their aim is to not only delight the local community with world-class designer goods, but also visitors from London and near Europe - as their publicity puts it). This would have brought hundreds of jobs and hundreds of thousands of visitors to the Dover area.
Instead McArthurGlen went to Ashford.
Yet another example of the lame-brain butchers, bakers and candlestick makers (and remember, Dover's idea of a successful businessman is someone who hasn't quite gone bankrupt recently) who make up our elected members, showed their complete ignorance in understanding what is good for the district, or indeed how 'retail' is changing.
Not that it has anything to do with the above but the Chief Executive of Dover District Council at the time was John Moir who left shortly afterwards to take up a post as a member of Dover Harbour Board.
