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  It's all about demographics. How many fast food outlets are in Deal or Sandwich?
  
  DDC/DTC can have all the Dover centric attractions/events and improved street scene in the world but if they don't attract the demographic, retailers will make their choice. Blaming on-line shopping is an easy excuse but doesn't tell the full story.
  
  Councils should encapsulate these demographics but what we have is a District Council which isolates Dover from the rest of the district through its policies. Public transport across the district is woeful and car parking charges are over priced.
  
  The demographic we want to attract in Dover therefore drives to Westwood Cross and its free parking.
  
  DDC are currently promoting their plans for the new Deal Leisure centre which looks almost identical to the Whitfield Leisure centre. So the notion of a "district" leisure centre has gone out of the window because rather than building fast transport links across the district we once again have tunnel vision policies like a fast track bus service to new builds which we don't need based on actual birth rates which continue to decline every year.

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