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  Many thanks to all who have posted.
  
  Folkestone Road has been a major issue and it is pleasing to see how it is improving.
  
  It is said over 800 properties are empty in Dover although it may be that some are occupied but no rates being paid. I understand "The empty properties" statistics are compiled from rates payments and in a nearby Kent Council it was established that a fair percentage of "empty" properties when visited were in fact "multi" occupied and not paying rates.
  
  With the need for family homes the Council should concentrate on oposing one-bed flats and seek to get some of the empty houses for families. The track record for the one bed flats is that people living in them have scant regard to gardens etc and create a further eyesore as the owners are too greedy taking the rents and do not bother with the external cleanliness which the council are not interested in as the mess (often dumped white goods etc) is on private land.
  
  If many of these properties were forced to tidy up gardens etc then our wonderful town would soon regain some of its past attractiveness. It is again the question of how many have pride.

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