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  Paul, there is no systematic campaign from me to block all developments concerning house-building in and around Dover.
  My reservations apply to building on green land, farm and woodland and protected areas, such as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
  
  My problem with the core strategy is not least the traffic problems in Dover, which would only get worse through mass building of houses.
  
  A reasonable core strategy with reasonable numbers of new houses would be welcome, and also if it addressed the need to create more employment for local people, rather than looking at how to attract tens of thousands more people to settle here in the hope that one day some very big company might hit Dover (Boing? VW? Google? Airbus?)
  
  Currently, the core strategy overlooks the fact that much employment in the already existing production centres in Dover District go to non-British nationals, and therefore non-locals.
  It needs revising big-time, with an examining of conscience: is this right, allowing local people to languish in unemployment while others come over in mass and get the factory jobs?
  
  A core strategy should have a plan regards local employment and should be centred first and foremost on LOCAL people.
  Our Councils are NOT elected to put the interests of others above the interests of the people they are supposed to serve.
  
  To the few: please leave out any "racism" remarks.

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