Unleashing the Potential of Dover’s Gateway
The Master Plan for Dover Town Centre is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to define how the borough will remake its town centre and provide a new image for itself and a higher quality of life for all of its residents.
I believe cities are places where the strongest forces of change are at work and where there is the greatest need to address issues of liveability, function and growth.
In bringing forward such an ambitious strategy for positive change in the Dover Town Centre, we understand the following series of critical, inter-related issues and opportunities must be considered, resolved and realised:
Creating a Sense of Place and the Improving the Environment
Improving Accessibility
Promoting and Fostering Commercial Delivery
Phasing
The phasing of the regeneration of Dover has to start with the town centre. To study and analyse the potential opportunities that are feasible as described above. Creating a landmark building in the town centre will bring the focus back to the town centre and will give people a reason to visit. Together with improved accessibility to the sea site and connecting the Town centre with the sea. The town centre can than be reconnected with Dover’s historic and landscape assets.
The infrastructure has to be improved, to create the opportunity for the Town centre to allow the regeneration to take place. By rerouting the primary traffic flows around the town, the pressure that is created by the current traffic will be released and will create room for new development.
After the town centre has been successfully regenerated, the impact of this will spill over to the neighbourhoods and expansion spaces will be required to allow Dover to grow.
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