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  What has Dover actually got? The port and a castle, to put it bluntly. Getting visitors through Dover is easy enough - it's getting them to visit Dover itself that seems to be the problem. We need to rejuvinate the town centre so that visitors don't bypass the town just to visit the castle or head off to the continent. The DTIZ is a start, if it ever gets beyond knocking a few things down, and this will produce some local employment - but it is all taking so long to come to fruition. Getting retailers into the town would help but I feel that the sky-high business rates here are not doing the town any favours in that respect.
  
  Improving the retail prospects of the town will help unemployment but not by much I fear. So we need to be looking at getting some light industry into the area, or something that will employ local people on a bigger scale, bring a bit more prosperity to the town and its current inhabitants. A prosperous town will attract more people to come to live and work here - and then we can start to think about building new homes.

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