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  Thank you Bern and Jan.
  
  I agree there is no need or case for complacency; the trouble with the run-down buildings in Dover are that they are privately-owned and in a number of instances, the owners live abroard and are difficult to contact and even more so to get a reply or action from them.
  
  The building (or rather non-existant building) that Philip refers to was the old crypt where a fire killed 7 or so people back in the middle 70s.
  
  Why that (and the surrounding area) has been left to deteriorate as it has I have no idea. I know that landlords/developers were reluctant to talk to DDC and the planners some years ago because they were always coming up against a brick wall. Now the attitude has changed and there is a planning application in for that.
  
  Section 215 of the Town and Country Planning 1990 should have been invoked years ago and I don't know why it wasn't - other than lack of resources (human and financial) and there's even less of both now.
  
  The trouble is that this particular area, as Philip has pointed out ,is very visible, visible to thousands of people passing through Dover and sadly, I'm sure that is exactly what they do and only come to Dover for a ferry or a cruise.
  
  Chasing up the developers to determine if there are any unnecessary delays to their application(s).
  
  There is so much more to say, but that's enough for this post.
  
  
  
  
  Roger

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