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Incidentally, today I spoke with a neighbour who is a bus driver, works in Dover and is from Dover, and he told me he had never heard of these proposals to build houses, hotel and conference centre on Western Heights and Farthigloe.
He agreed that these two areas are among the only green areas we have where people can walk free of heavy traffic and pollution.
He was aware of the Whitfield urbanisation plans, but was shocked when I explained that 6,000 new houses there could equate to a population the size of Dover's present population, that they'd be travelling every day to Dover down Barton Road to the shops and wherever, past all the schools along the main road, and up London Road back to Whitfield.
We'd have essentially the same thing going on at Farthingloe and on Western Heights, once developments kicked off there.
And we have been told quite clearly, by Paul S and others, that the ONLY reason they want these urbanisation schemes in the protected areas, is NOT because we need those houses, but because there is a lack of funds to maintain ex-military defences on Western Heights.
While Protect Kent and Lorraine have ably pointed out to us that DDC want these extra houses in order to get New Home Bonus funds, and NOT because we need these new houses.
DDC, as we know, will have a 40% finding cut over a 4 year period, starting from last year. So all in all, we know that these urbanisation schemes have nothing to do with "needing" 9,000+ extra houses over the coming few decades, from Whitfield to Guston to Farthingloe, but with garnering funds needed for entirely different matters.
This just about explains everything!