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Anyone know what the Conservative line is on the playpark proposal? I ask as I can't see anything referring to the playpark in their election literature.

18 Mar 2019

Confirmed: The £68,195 and 41 pence (@November of last year) left of the £200,000 Sainsbury S106 money has been allocated by TDC towards funding a play park on the lawn in Dawlish.

16 Mar 2019

Well, well. Would you Adam and Eve it. Just had a Lib Dem Focus delivered and lo and behold there is a bit in it about the future of the lawn.  It says that detailed designs will be presented for further public approval before any final application is made.

16 Mar 2019

@The Observer re your post above dated 15th March. @ November 2018 there was £68,195 and 41 pence left of the just over £200,000 S106 Sainsbury money.  This money has to be spent by 4th March 2021. If not spent by that time then any money left over has to be returned to Sainsbury's.

How is this new job being funded? From the minutes of last week's (6th March) Dawlish Town Council meeting: PROPOSED EVENTS, PROJECTS AND TOURISM OFFICER Members considered the draft job description for the proposed Events, Projects and Tourism Officer. The Finance & General Purposes Committee had considered the item at its meeting on 28 February and had made a recommendation to the ...

See below extract from minutes of full Dawlish Town Council meeting held last week (6th March). A letter had been received from Teignbridge’s Planning Department regards the preliminary enquiry to the suggestion of siting a playpark near to the Tourist Information Centre on The Lawn. The response was such that if the height was no more than 4m and curtilage was less than 200 cubic metres ...

15 Mar 2019

Thanks. I'll ask one of our district councillors for an explanation then.

15 Mar 2019

@maki1 - is this £75k (S106) money the amount that is presently left from the £200,000 S106 money that Sainsbury's handed over to TDC to be spent on things related to Dawlish town centre as part of the planning permission granted back in 2008/9?

15 Mar 2019

Town Council Elections 2019 Town & District Elections – Thursday, 2 May 2019 Your chance to have YOUR say! Elections to fill 16 vacancies on Dawlish Town Council and 5 vacancies for Teignbridge District Councillors representing Dawlish will take place from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Thursday, 2 May 2019. Dawlish Town Council The Town Council consists of three Wards, electing 16 ...

14 Mar 2019

There are local elections on May 2nd both to the town council and to Teignbridge District Council. Election material has already been coming through my letterbox. I've raised the issue of the play park on the lawn on the title of this thread because although it is a contentious issue I have not heard much about it of late. As far as I am aware the wind is blowing in the direction of there ...