The true facts are even stranger.
Caesar, hoping to move here, had initially got in touch with the planning department at Dubris District Council and Highways at Maidstone.
His initial plan involved the development of a large fort with triumphal arch (which was eventually built at Richborough) as well as an estate of 2000 villas at Whitfieldium and a number of other developments in nearby Dealium, all centrally heated, with an indoor lavatorium and each with parking space for 1.6 chariots.
Under a Section 106 agreement he was willing to both straighten and indeed pave a number of local roads to offset the increase in traffic.
Initially he was told that the proposed fort was 'out of the question' as it was not on the 'local 10 year plan of AD60' , was on far too large a scale and any employment was going to be given mostly to battle hardened professional centurions of the Roman Empire rather than illiterate and uncivilised local labour.
Local opposition to the Dubris development was based on the fact that that none of the villas would be 'affordable' although the planning department suggested that if he put a number of hovels to be rented out to locals within the development DDC 'might come to an arrangement'.
In Dealium the local preservation society suggested that the proposed villas would be 'out of keeping with the historic architecture of the sea front'. i.e. a row of mud huts and that they were the wrong colour of building.
He transferred his application to Thanet, where, as it traditional, he handed over a Brownian Envelopus at the Masonicum Hallus and all was well.
Nudgus, nudgus, vinkio, vinkio.
The rest is history.
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