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Thanks Ross.
The Town and District Councils do work to gether behind the scenes, to a certain extent, but I do feel there is a lack of respect from either side - perhaps that lack of respect or trust is because both councils are opposed politically - District is Conservative, Town is Labour.
Publicly they will both tell you they are working well together, but if that were true, there would be much more co-operation and progress I'm sure.
Howard
You are right, there is very slow progress, if any, on the toilets issue; when I was the Dover Chamber's Business Support Manager, I did speak about me talking to the appropriate businesses about them allowing the public to use their loos for a fee, but this was never agreed by them.
As mentioned on other threads, I had progressed the section 215 legislation while at the Chamber too, going right to the top - but with no success or acceptance by DDC.
The two Chambers - Dover and Channel Chamber have shown a complete lack of understanding about Town Centre and/or retail support, both have told me that membership money, rather than actual support, is most important - of course membership is important as without membership you have no voice, but it isn't the most important.
I don't think Channel Chamber have any actual or physical presence in Dover any more, after they stopped paying me (dismissed through lack of affordability - I had done my job on work-placement), they did not replace me.
I totally agree that the collective good (of Dover) should be the over-riding factor for any one or set up, working for Dover: party politics, or even Chamber politics shouldn't even come into it.
Roger