General Discussion
With reference to my post dated 8th November concerning how the playpark will be funded. See below extract from the minutes of the town council meeting held earlier this month (7th November). Dawlish does not currently have a Neighbourhood Plan. NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN Members considered a report which requested the appointment of a consultant to work alongside the Neighbourhood Plan Steering ...
Councillor Wrigley ..............”We have re-started the meetings of the Lawn Working Group and are moving towards getting all the permissions that we need to proceed. It is with regret that we have not been able to meet the timescale for the GWR funding, but I would like to remind the council that this is approximately 10% of the required total, and there is still funding allocated from section ...
Thank goodness for the person who has (past 12 months?) recorded the town council meetings and then puts the video on Youtube. I agree that minutes (and newspaper reports for that matter) don't necessarily give the full 'flavour' of a meeting. Although both may give different versions of the same thing and with different styles of English. If people are unable to attend in person then a ...
The last time a reporter from the local press attended a Dawlish Town Council meeting was back in the summer. There was a Dawlish Town Council meeting again last night and again there was no-one there from the press. So how are the citizens of Dawlish supposed to know what is going on if their only source of information is from the local press? It seems last night's council meeting had ...
As far as I am aware (and remember I am not a councillor so I only know what is in the public arena) funding will come from: 1. Whatever is left of the Sainsbury £200,000 S106 money (and this has to be spent by October 2020) 2. Whatever can be sourced from anywhere else eg GWR 3. The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) contributions that those building the new houses have to give to TDC. ...
There is now a thread running on Eyes of Dawlish discussion fb about this matter and the town council meeting last night. If you can access the thread you might want to take a look. We hear a lot about town centres, across the country, becoming run down/having empty shops and the like. Why this is may be due to various factors but no doubt online shopping and out of town shopping malls with ...
The playpark - costs To state the obvious this will depend on how big and what equipment it would have but to give an idea; Play equipment lasts about 10 years. It also has to be maintained, repaired etc. The previous large playpark design was costed at £250,000. So to use that £250,000 figure: Approx cost for annual maintenance: £5,000 (=£50,000 over ten year period) ...
The playpark and money I believe the GWR funding (which has now been lost) was just shy of £20,000. I believe the project for which it was intended (the playpark) had to be completed by April 2019. The town council, earlier this year, agreed to pay a sum of £4,000 to consultants in order to try and find more funding for the proposed playpark. There is still some money from the £200,000 ...
Some may remember that back in August there was a public consultation concerning the future of the lawn (including playpark). A report was given to the 5/9/18 town council meeting with regard to this consultation. Click on the link below and scroll down to agenda item 82 to read more. https://www.dawlish.gov.uk/edit/uploads/2500_354720916.pdf
Note this agenda item scheduled for next week’s town council meeting. 17. GWR Playpark Funding – to note that due to the Playpark on The Lawn not being completed by 31 March 2019, the funding is to be reallocated to other projects by GWR Town council meeting agenda here: https://www.dawlish.gov.uk/edit/uploads/2526_145600155.pdf
