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Representation No 2
A democratic vote for Dovers Community seems a good solution to prevent Dover,s ports and harbour and promenade being taken from the town and sold into private ownership.
For this reason it would be advantageous to request a law of democracy enabling British citizens to take part in the decisions proposed and made in their local areas,including the right to contest proposals, present other proposals and call for a local public vote.
It would be right that Dover harbour and Dover,s ports, being national sovereign territory with adjacent sovereign waters(the harbour),be recognized officially as integral part of Dover,and administered by the Dover Town Council or Dover District Council.
I further propose that a new port-service toll be introduced by way of which every heavy commercial goods vehicle transiting through Dover,s two ports-except those passing through for charity purposes_pay fifty pounds in return for the port -service and transit that Dover supplies by way of any of its ports.Of this sum, I propose that five pounds be for the Dover Town Council,fifteen pounds for the Dover District Council,fifteen pounds for Kent County Council and fifteen pounds for the national Treasury.
The port-service toll would be added to any existing expenses that commercial freight vehicles already have to pay to transit through Dovers docks.
The new port-service toll, which would be very advantageous to local economy and could be applied in all British ports if a new national law is requested by the people, would be similar to motorway and tunnel tolls that are exacted in many countries in Europe, and therefore could not be considered as unfair towards trade and commerce. It would be a fair compensation for using British commercial ports ,each of which belongs to the town and district of its location,not being the private property of private pwners.
If adequate port revenues were to be paid into the respective treasuries of local and national Goverment,it would be to the greater benefit of the public. The proposed sum of fifty pounds per heavy goods vehicle would be too fractional to have an effect on retail prices,corresponding on average to about quarter of a pence per kilogramme of transported products,depending on the amount of freight being transported.
One heavy goods vehicle can in fact carry more than twenty tonnes of freight.Each day,thousands of heavy goods vehicles transit through Dover,s Streets in order to use the docks. As a result,some of the streets have been practicallyboarded and shut down to local housing ans business,depriving Dover,s community of the use of part of the town.
There is no way you have a mandate to carry this project.