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  I don't understand the resistance either. In terms of good public relations alone moves to show DHB working with and for the town should give them enormous benefits. Of course DHB are not known for caring about their image, on many occasions they have made it clear that that they 'do not have to' concern themselves with such things as normal planning applications or explain their actions on charges to ferry operators.
  
  They very much give the impression of considering themselves a law unto themselves and have a dreadful reputation of approaching any negotiations with an inbuilt arrogance that earns them no favours. As the closest port to mainland Europe the business will always be there (so little chance of going bankrupt unless they succeed in putting everyones back up so much they are prepared to pay more to avoid them) so the question is how best to manage it for the benefit of both the port and the town. Despite DHB's assertion that their responsibility begins and ends at the harbour gates anyone that has ever been stuck in a queue of port bound traffic knows that the operation affects us all. Maybe ten pounds is a small price to pay to have a say in that.

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