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  Developers rule the roost not just at Dover District Council.
  
  The Planning Department Officers at DDC do not take kindly to the committee not agreeing with their recommendations.
  
  History proves the Officers will continue to push and persuade that their recommendation should be approved.
  
  Normally the committee finally approve the recommendation.Officers work on the strong opinion that their use of all the gobbledegook at their disposal will confuse/mesmerize the majority of the committee who,to say the least,lack knowledge of all the gobbledegook so the Officers must be right.............................Wrong................
  
  On the Sholden application the committee were concerned over several issues including possible flooding.
  
  eg..The Officers were given absolute evidence that the Maison Dieu Hospital site was on a Flood Plain.
  
  They totally ignored the facts and for three long long years delayed the planning process and continued to try to prove they were right, including convincing the Scutiny Committee on two occasions even after the Government inspector had deemed the site could not be used for a Hospital.Even to this day they would say to me that the Hospital should be built on Maison Dieu.
  
  Rest assured the Planning Officers will not give up trying to convince the committee to follow their advice/instructions!!!!
  
  The Developers will as usual be pushing and persuading!! the Officers to let them build. ( checkout Whitfield first build and affordable housing allocation ) They are very persuasive!!!
  
  Its wait and see time!!!.........................Sholden is not safe yet!!!!
  
  The Planning regulations need reform but not the Coalition way and Planning Departments in local Authorities need total root and branch change including their attitude and control of committees.

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