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Alexander - you have used quotes from it before. I can find them on this forum, but have too much else to do at the moment to undertake the search. I think that pretty much everyone else will accept that you have done so.
I do not know how you can possibly not understand, not only have I provided the full text of the constitution but also a summary of the pertinent points in answer to your specific questions in my earliier post.
Membership = people who own membership shares of DPPT
Board members = Directors either nominated and elected by the Membership of DPPT (4) or ex oficio directors selected by Dover Town Council (1), Dover District Council (1), Kent County Council (1), the sitting MP and ex oficio nominee of Dover District Chamber of Commerce.
Chairman = Person elected to that position by the members of the Board from among their own number.
The £50m seed funding for regeneration will not be managed directly by the DPPT but by a separate company (current working title Regenco) formed for the purpose of working with local, district and regional government, to invest in regeneration projects. Long term strategy for investment will be determined by the DPPT and Regenco will have to meet investment and revenue KPIs set by the DPPT.
As I have previously explained, the £50m is seed funding, it is designed to be a sufficiently large amount to attract significant match funding and additional external partnership funding to create a meaningful regeneration agenda for Dover and the surrounding area. Projects will be identified according to investment criteria laid down in advance by DPPT and in cooperation with relevant local, district, regional and national authorities. This money and the succeeding distributions of profits from port operations have not and will not be divided up so crudely as saying x amount of money is for Dover, y amount of money is for Deal and z amount is for Sandwich, what a ridiculous idea; a project developed in Dover Town that creates 300 long term jobs, provides training for 40 young people a year and reduces congestion will be of benefit to Dover, Deal, Sandwich and the surrounding villages in both monetary and physical terms for example.
A key objective for DPPT is to see that Dover Town is reconnected with its seafront, achieving this may, or may not, incorporate the creation of a road tunnel along all or part of Town Wall street. At the moment we have looked at conceptual plans and built a cost model for achieving the objective, but until the future of the port has been decided, it is a fruitless waste of money to proceed to commitment stage on any such project.
Regeneration suggestions from the membership of DPPT would be welcomed and examined. If you are not a member of an organisation, then you can hardly expect to have any influence whatsoever over the how, where or why it spends the money under its control.
Your normal rights to object to everything are unaffected by membership or non-membership of DPPT. The local authorities still exist, as do their officers, the DPPT is not some supra agency authority. The DPPT is a charitable organisation which has no more power to do anything than any other charity or body corporate or private. All physical regeneration projects sponsored by the DPPT through Regenco will still have to comply with and pass through the same planning permission laws and system as anyone else's request for planning permission have to.
Just a few questions, there is a significant development happenning right now that is just part of Dover's regeneration story and which will bring approx. 3000 people per annum into Dover by 2014 from outside for extended periods staying at local hotels. It will also provide training and education for local secondary school kids, did you vote for it? did you elect anyone to the board of directors of the company that is doing it? did you have any say whatsoever in its inception, planning, or development? No, you didn't is the short answer. Local Government and the District Council are not using any of their money on the project either and yet, it is happenning. It is planned and funded by a community interest not for profit, has made relevant planning applications, been through the planning system and achieved approval, it will provide benefit to Dover and the surrounding area and all without any input from yourself. The project is Dover's new Maritime Training Centre and it is massively good news for our town and District achieved through the commitment and altruism of a private individual heading up a separate private, family owned, business.