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  People do not buy a house, even a weekend house, with the intention of locking themselves into it. They will be out at the weekend, shopping, eating in restaurants etc. A hotel and conference centre will attract more tourists, as will improved access to the Drop Redoubt and the surrounds.
  
  Dover's population has more than halved in the last 60 years and with it the viability of many shops, pubs, cinema's etc. To make the town attractive to leisure facilities and to encourage a greater variety of shops we need more people. As DDC have foresaken shops and houses in the DTIZ in favour of a car-park (and thus reducing the viability of any future park and ride schemes) the new houses do have to go somewhere. Without a major change in the V.A.T. laws that make it more profitable to build than to restore this will be the case. Unless you can find a benevolent billionaire to donate match funding we need large developments to provide the funds to preserve and restore our heritage.

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