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Having returned from la Grande Nation where I paid my tobacco tax, and witnessed delays on the crossings owing to high winds, I got home late tonight.
We had to wait 1 hour 30 minutes on the Pride of Burgundy in the harbour while the Pride of Canterbury was waiting to clear berth 9. All grievances were forgotten and the crew forgiven when the P/O courtesy bus suddenly drove on the ship to the relief of the foot passengers.
My basic review of the situation is as follows:
There seem to be new planning permission laws that allow local councils more powers in planning, But even then, these regulations are so complex and occupy so many pages, I can't find it easy to sift through them; add to that the thousands of CGI pages now online.
The CGI representative specifically said thousands, not hundreds.
My opinion is, if DDC can manage to revoke the present protection statuses (they are more than one) on Farthigloe and W.H., they will open up a precedent to continue planning and building in those two areas in future times; thus the planning projects as at present proposed could easily be added to, albeit through new developers, regardless what CGI might say now, even if in bona fida.
As a logical consequence, and following the logic that, if you can conquer the Roman Empire, you can conquer the whole world, the next thing would be, that DDC could one day revoke any protection status anywhere in Dover, and build along Eastern Heights from the Castle area all the way to St. Margret's lighthouse!
And build flats in Connaught Park, and a hotel in Pencester Gardens.
This is my real concern, that once we open the door to Pandora, it will never stop till the bitter end!
And if other councils in England and Wales follow the example of DDC on Western Heights and Farthingloe, some might do similar things in other parts of our country, revoking the protection status of areas in favour of planning.
So we might one day find flats along Hadrian's Wall and a conference centre inside the circle of Stone Henge.
I reiterate that, what we are doing now at Braddon, defending protected areas, is the decisive battle for saving England and Wales (which have a common law) from losing our common natural and historical Heritage, which otherwise will be certainly sacrificed to speculators and developers from Dover to Cornwall and from Kent to Cumbria.
If, however, we succeed in blocking the planned revoking of the protected status of our western areas of Dover, then this will serve as a precedent to block future plans to desecrate England's Heritage in other areas too.
If anyone on this Forum sees the light in this, then come over and support us!
