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Reluctantly posting on a political thread - DPPT is a community interest organisation. It was incorporated on 23rd August 2010, which meant that it made its first corporate submission on the consultation over the port during the consultation period called for by the government in July/August 2010.
For the first consultation period in Feb/March 2010, DPPT was unincorporated. But as has been said many times, both in writing and verbally, on this forum, in the press and at public meetings, the concept, ideas and thinking behind DPPT were born out of the first consultation period, out of what the public and other stakeholders expressed during that consultation and from submissions made by many individuals (including me) and stakeholder groups.
DPPT was born out of consultation and informed by the latest international thinking around port ownership and governance, the implementation of best practice in port-city relationships and the knowledge that a community cooperative type organisation could constitute to be fully accountable to the local community, prevent sale and on-sale of the port and yet gain access to the private capital markets to fund investment for growth and development in a way that we were told neither a Trust port or a Local Government body can.
As DPPT is a democratic organisation, is partaking fully in the Democratic and consultative process, is apolitical (I can't believe that, despite people of all political colours and none being openly and publicly involved in DPPT from grass roots to Board level, a reasonable person could still be suggesting that DPPT is a politically motivated or controlled organisation) and has actively, through a free and open democratic vote, sought the opinion of the population with regard to the future of the port, I really look forward to your legal and constitutional challenges Alex. Your supporting documentation will doubtless make very interesting reading matter. as do many of your posts.
