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  I am sorry to say that the DDC planning committee may well get a list of planning applications but when it comes to their meetings the officers only give them four or five from the whole area to consider. Each of these comes with a ream of notes from the officers, so much so that I expect most of the councillors have enough to do reading them without looking up the ones that didn't make the agenda.
  
  One example; a planning application went through for a block of nine flats on a small space in Aycliffe, DTC objected, as did some local residents and it was rejected. The applicant appealed and lost on the basis of a poor quality of life for prospective residents. A new plan was later submitted to squeeze a block of seven flats and a pair of semi-detatched houses on the same sight. DTC once again objected and yet DDC officers approved it without submitting it to the committee of councillors, despite the previous history of the site.
  
  DDC does lack vision. The developers of the DTIZ failed to deliver on previous plans and yet DDC stuck with them until we now get offered 15 shops, a massive car-park and a wall to further disengage the town from the seafront. Does anyone have any difficulty in finding 15 empty shops in the town?
  There are other developers out there offering far more imaginative proposals for Dover, and other towns, and yet DDC has stuck with the one that only promises them an increase in parking revenue.

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