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Paul, you mentioned a cost for repairs on the Western Heights sites of £20 million pounds.
You implied this does not include the cost of a mega war-memorial on the same Heights and of a massive car park "somewhere outside Dover".
You do not state how long it would take before the next £20 million is needed again for more repairs, after 10 years or so.
If we followed your advice, we would become bankrupt town No1 in Britain.
In North Camp, where I lived, the Army didn't go about repairing old houses, they just knocked them down and built new ones.
Western Heights is full of disused military installations. These cannot be repaired other than at great cost.
In terms of costs, what you want to do would be the equivalent, in the olden days, to building a town wall around a major town. These are ex-military defences, Paul, they are too costly to maintain, and any developer would require enormous returns by way of building-rights for doing even superficial work on them.
Our Country is bust, we're being damned to financial deprivation, and when people here in Dover talk of regeneration, they hardly mean miles of old military underground moats and tunnels.
We already have the DTIZ area to regenerate, we have maintenance works at the Castle when required, there is the question of T2, Eastern Docks needs maintaining every so often... WHERE IS ALL THE MONEY???
Our unemployment rate here in East Kent is on the rampage!
Many people can't keep up with the rent or the mortgage, and are on payday loans.