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  I completely agree with Ross on this one.
  
  I am also puzzled by Sue's reference to a Town Centre Manager and/or Chamber of Commerce. Business people are very independently minded and while they will often want and need the kind of support/advice a Chamber (or TCM) can provide they will not be told how to run their own businesses. They will open their shops and restaurants when they believe the demand is there.
  
  Dover town businesses, and retailers in particular, certainly need support and a voice that they do not have at the moment, ever since the demise of TCM. What a business support organisation cannot do is to get shops open at times what they dont want to open and certainly cannot whistle up the trade to make them want to do so. It can make a difference though, in the long term, in contributing towards a vibrant and growing local economy, but the economic fundamentals need to be in place and there are bodies with much more influence and money to help with that than any business support body.
  
  There is progress, by the way, in putting something in place for Dover Town to support town centre businesses.

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