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Alexander, you have made some excellent points, but sadly, as usual they are seen as tin cans, to be knocked down for a laugh.
Paul-aka-whatever, has made it clear that the WHPS are the clique who are in 'negotiations' with EH and anyone who tries to put forward an alternative strategy to save Dover's National Ancient Monument that is on the 'AT Risk' list, is to be vilified.
As for our councillors and ex-councillors - it would appear from recent postings - they are only interested in taking pot shots at locals who dare to voice other opinions that those that their whips tell them to believe.
When it comes to the Farthingloe Valley, again we get the same negative vibes from those who have saintly pretensions.
In 1994, Eurotunnel Developments Ltd applied for outline planning permission to construct 19,510-square metres of Business Units on what had been the Channel Tunnel Workers Camp site at Farthingloe - for which three-year temporary planning permission was given.
In January 2006, CGP - the previous name for CGI - applied for Full Planning Permission for the same proposal on the same development site. This was granted on 21 April 2006 with the proviso that the development should begin within three years.
Not long after, a short hard-core roadway was laid but nothing else has been done since. However it this hard-core roadway that, it would appear, justifies CGI having permanent planning permission for developing 19,510-square metres of the site for industrial purposes. At the time of writing, this, we have been told, is being looked into by DDC Planning Department.
It is this hardcore road way with the tenuous permission for a 19,510-square metres industrial complex, which CGI are using to justify their massive proposed development that will be the start of a ribbon development along this beautiful Arthurian AONB designated valley.
This violates LPF DM 16, which states that development that would harm the character of the landscape, as identified through the process of landscape character assessment will only be permitted if - It is in accordance with allocations made in Development Plan Documents
As stated many times, this development along with those planned for Western Heights, are NOT in the Approved LDF and by the:
- sheer size of the proposed development,
- its failure to meet a large number of sustainable objectives,
- its failure to incorporate 'any necessary avoidance and mitigation measures'
-its failure to be 'sited to avoid or reduce the harm and/or incorporate design measures to mitigate the impacts to an acceptable level'
It FAILS on every aspect of LDF DM16.
Lorraine
