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That is the reason, Gary, why from Feb. 2010 in my first representation I proposed clearly to the DfT the Port of Dover be transferred to the Local Community, as a local asset, proposing that this transfer - free of charge!!! - be made to one or more of the local Councils.
What some people seem to misinterpret, is the idea of "council". By council, I mean a local unity within the national State.
Whereas the State represents all the citizens of the Country, the Council unit represents all the citizens/inhabitants/residents of that particular local administrative area.
Unfortunately, some people keep thinking that by "council" i mean "the councillors and some officers - period".
In fact I mean the WHOLE local Community!
The fact is, Gary, when I made this proposal in my first representation in February/March 2010, I was probably the only person to have presented such a request out of all the representations presented. Namely, that the Port of Dover be transferred - free of charge - to the local Community. And I always maintained this stance in all following phases of the public consultation, in all my successive representations.
DPPT did not exist in Feb/March 2010, they only came into existence in August 2010, and so I cannot be expected to change my representation and adapt it to DPPT's views, who made their first appearance well after my first representation.