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Roger, I'm aware that the core strategy is over a 25-30 year period.
However, to plan 6,000 houses at Whitfield on farm and woodland, 1 mile from Dover, means planning to double Dover's population.
Add to that the brown field sites in Dover and elsewhere in the district that are being built on for housing, such as Crabble corn mill and the castle area, and then add Western Heights and Farthingloe, and the many empty houses in Dover, and I think we can start talking of a three-fold population increase over the next few decades, especially if the present CGI plan were to be added to with even more housing in a few years, or ten years, time.
Roger, people who have spoken with me at these meetings all disagree with the DDC core strategy, noting that the building of so many houses do NOT bring jobs, nowhere near the figures people try to spin over to us, but bring ever more people who will be looking for work!
They also point out that there are no new developments of factories to employ people, only housing, housing, housing. And we already have a high unemployment rate in East Kent.
Finally, Roger, you wrote about children not having to live with their parents.
Unemployed children are likely to live with their parents, Roger, and even children who are not unemployed but can't afford a mortgage or the rent, or who have already been home-evicted for being unable to continue to pay the mortgage.
Many adults in Britain return to their parents after home-eviction, often after their marriage has broken up through financial problems and bailiffs knocking on the door.
Sorry Roger, but these extra houses are ONLY for the wealthy, and you have stated on the Forum in the past that you wish for Londoners to come and settle here in Dover, Londoners with a good salary.
Of-course, Roger, these people have children, who would then be looking for work in Dover.
It is only you, Roger, who keeps telling me that I am for a backwards Dover, a ruined Dover. The people I talk with tell me the opposite.
And finally, the Defend Kent representative explained what we all know, except Roger: that workers building houses are just about all migrant workers, from elsewhere in Britain or from other countries, who then move on after the building is done.