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Alexander, your support is most welcome and appreciated and like you, I too support the preservation of the Napoleonic and OTHER defences on the Heights, but to allow cavalier development ... NO
This appears to be endorsed by Dover District Council's Local Development Framework (LDF) and the chapter on Green Infrastructure (GI). The report recognises that Western Heights and Farthingloe play an important part in Dover's GI as they are at the southern tip of the North Downs.
Further, DDC states that one of their GI Projects is to recreate the rolling landscape associated with Historic Dover, and on the accompanying map (Fig 6.1), a solid green line enclosed these areas, adding that:
'They are of ecological value ... containing sub optimal habitats that can act as buffer areas that link to the wider East Kent GI Network and provide migration corridors, particularly with increased pressures from climate change.'
Earlier in the report (5.7), it says that:
'The level of development planned for Dover is likely to exacerbate recreational pressure on the White Cliffs, which is a designated site, as well as Kearsney Abbey and Russell Gardens. Sites that may help to relieve this pressure include Connaught Park, Pencester Gardens and Samphire Hoe. A further opportunity is to encourage and improve access to GI to the west of Dover, including WESTERN HEIGHTS ...'
The report also discusses unmanaged growth (cavalier housing development) saying that such developments may also put pressure on Local Wildlife Sites at Old Park Hill, Connaught
Barracks, Gorse Hill, WESTERN HEIGHTS, Long Hill and Buckland Valley. (As advised by KWT)
In fact, DDC gives the unmistakable impression that they are proud of their Green Infrastructure strategy, which raises the point:
Why is there such an overwhelming need by some to violate this worthy strategy by implicitly endorsing the proposed CGI developments and by continually wailing, 'wait and see what they really are?'
Lorraine