Lynne
If you click on this link and look at the photo to the upper right hand side you will see the location of this proposed housing development. https://www.hensfordpark.co.uk/ Look at the inner circle at about the one/ two o'clock mark. See those white buildings? That's Langdon Hospital. The darker shade is the location of Gatehouse Farm, Secmaton Farm and the Persimmon sites. Already ...
This is on the agenda at the next Dawlish town council planning committee meeting being held on Thursday 10th November
https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/struggling-to-make-ends-meet-570600
22/01923/OUT | Outline application for a exceptions site with 4 First Homes (approval sought for access and scale) | Land Adjacent To Sutton Close Dawlish Devon EX7 0DS Web Link: https://publicaccess.teignbridge.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?active
See page 7 latest issue of Dawlish Gazette.
Oh and........even if the link road were to be completely in situ linking the Gatehouse end with the Sainsbury's roundabout end I understand that construction traffic would not be compelled to use it. Ergo lots of construction traffic could still be using the Elm Grove area when Gatehouse Farm and Secmaton Farm get developed.
Ellen is now at The Manor House every Thursday morning. So if you have any news and views that you'd like to share with her do please pop in and have a chat.
Saw some Dawlish faces at the Exeter march and rally yesterday. Go Dawlish!
I've been told that this is known as a 'speculative development'. It's a way of being able to build on land that hasn't been identified for development (see my first post above). Interesting read here from the Campaign For The Protection of Rural England (CPRE) concerning this issue. https://www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LandZpromotersZbriefingZ2018.pdf Here's an ...
Just imagine all those nurses and doctors, for example, who are presently stuck at home making dinners and the such like when they could be back working in the NHS if we only had but decent child care provision in this country.
