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    This is, or certainly should be good, good news for the region but Pauls list creates its own concerns. DHB is heavily represented as they are on the list as well as being on Dover Pride and, I seem to recall, are represented on SEEDA. Notable by their absence are Dover, Deal and Sandwich Town Councils, with the Dover Town Council also being excluded from Dover Pride. A good reason for my reservations would be DHB's own trading figures. While they loudly and frequently exclaim as to how much business they are bringing into the town their own statistics tend to disagree. As we all know the lorry drivers that so often block our roads do not spend money in the town, to the extent that they do not even use the toilets, prefering disposable bottles or the roadside. Over the last ten years the numbers of haulage vehicles using the port has dramatically increased while, over the same period, the numbers of tourist cars has dropped by nearly the same amount and coaches have dropped by nearly 60,000. At the same time deliveries of aggregates has increased and yet the number of vessels entering the port has dropped. A lot more lorries and yet less vessels to take them over the channel. It has to be asked if their proposed new developments will end up as lorry parking space rather than as a benefit to the town. Remembering that they will take no responsability for any traffic until it enters the port how promising is it for them to be so heavily represented among DDC's 'partners' to the exclusion of the towns elected representatives?

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