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  The first thing I noticed was the wall. A very decorative wall, with its guard towers disguised as pillars and its nice expanses of sharp flint; scale me at your peril. A nice clear statement to passing motorists, "this is Dover now bog off".
  
  Sure enough, there in the corner is the telephone mast base cleverly designed to represent a hotel. In the other corner a riverside café with a landscaped area (a note tells us that it can be used as overflow parking - I was worried for a moment there that we were going to be stuck with a green space).
  
  The rest is a car park, but not just any car park, a car park with 15 (yes a whole 15) retail spaces. The accompanying artists impression show us how people can wander at will across this expanse of parking because obviously there will never be cars driving around looking for spaces.
  
  Of course, everyone is so sick of the sight of Burlington house they will accept any half-hearted effort that sees it demolished and say, "let the DDC parking revenue"; sorry I meant, "let the regeneration begin".
  
  Had I not seen what other developers envisage for areas of Dover and what other towns have done with their seafront areas I am sure I could fall for the "best we can get" line. I have said it before and will almost certainly say it again, "Dover deserves the best and not just the best it can get".

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