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Paul, any land that receives development permission for hundreds of houses increases in value by hundreds of times!
On Farthingloe that would be about 700 houses, on W.H. about 85 houses plus a hotel and conference centre.
Someone today at the meeting mentioned again that land was sold years back by the Prison for a few hundred thousand pounds.
CGI is out to make profits by getting planning permissions on Green Land, in Dover District and in Thannet District. Once they achieved this, the land they own in these two districts would be worth much more than their present £31 million debt to the Israel Discount Bank, without any houses or other buildings on it.
Then they would sell to developers.
DDC, in order to try to get the CGI request associated to the original core strategy, added a Corporate Plan 2012-2016 for Western Heights and Farthingloe to their DDC Website. It states:
"To make land available at Western Heights/Great Farthingloe Farm to enable progress towards the comprehensive proposals for regeneration, linked to the Town Centre, and maximise the tourism potential of this area, enabled and facilitated through a Planning Performance Agreement."
It appears evident that this text has been inserted in order to accommodate the CGI planning proposals even before they were presented to the Local Planning Authority.
This, Paul, as far as I am concerned, is a basis for a public enquiry.
There are people looking into all this with detail. People in DDC Planning, somewhere in some office, have been talking with CGI for years.
It was all stated at today's meeting.