I believe that our Leader has caved in after much pressure from a former Chairperson who lives in River, and Dover District Council is about to start running in-house a much needed 'Clothing Emporium for Ladies of a Certain Age'.
This has necessarily been kept secret from run-of-the-mill councillors (due to the inevitable need for commercial confidentiality
) and was only decided at a special meeting of the Commercial Property Advisory group (Snargate Street Division) last week, who have been convinced of the viability of the project, after seeing extensive plans illustrated on the back of a fag packet. They will of course be adjusting Dover's development strategy to reflect this development once they have a strategy.
When I asked whether the rumour that the council was planning to turn the much abused Stembrook Street toilets into a 'much needed' bowling alley,ice rink or department store (see mad correspondence in Dover Express passim) earlier in the week, a council spokesman said that he was unable to comment as he had been ordered that since 25 May he had been told to say that no-one was allowed to know anything due to the General Data Protection Regulation and that if anyone complained he had been told to say it had been imposed by the EU, his hands were tied and that I shoudn't ask too many questions as 'the council knows where you live - Deal is short of a much needed cinema and we're quite good with CPOs, if you get my drift'.
