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Even MP Elphicke wrote in a public letter last year that a lot can be done to hold back the bull-dozers in Whitfield, so if he says so, then Paul W's assertions that nothing can be done about it can be quite legitimately contradicted.
I am sure that a parish poll in Whitfield would not cost much, the area being much smaller than Dover, and would be a good basis to stop the urbanisation scheme.
The localism bill, however, which is still not clear, envisages a kind of referendum that is new, and that is legally binding, and goes beyond the parish poll, so a lot can be looked into in this respect.
I am sure that Vic and many others will know how to bring an end to the urbanisation plans in Whitfield!
PaulW's "you can't do anything about it" is just to make people believe they can't, and give up on it. A lot can be done about it, and the campaign to do so should go ahead full-steam: by way of the May elections, a parish poll, a localism bill referendum. Every means feasible under the law!