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Paul, perhaps to your astonishment, I read the front page of the Dover Express dated June 28 2012, which I have hear in front of me:
The headlines: Trust to raise £1.2m to buy cliff-top site.
Here is one part of the article:
"Once bought, it would take an Act of Parliament before the land could be resold or built on."
So yes, quite clearly, one of the concerns of the National Trust does seem to be that this land could otherwise be built upon.
I also noted your misquoting of my words. I haven't stated that DDC would sell it off, nor that they own it, and having read the article last month, am fully aware that it is privately owned.
But the risk is, as I see it, DDC could in the future grant planning permission to developers, who could (after purchasing it from a private owner) sell it with houses built on top to private house buyers for a heap of hundreds of millions.
This is a potential risk, and so the National Trust want to prevent this from coming about. That's how I see it. Hopefully this serves for your misquotes.