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· Dawlish: 'Britain's bossiest town' to review signs BBC News - 16 minutes ago These are external links and will open in a new window A town is to review its "oppressive" signage after a scathing review from a tourist who said he felt "bombarded by notices". A ... Does this Devon town have the most signposts in Britain? THE Herald - 1 day ago · Dawlish: Is this Britain's ...
Caught the Sky news coverage on this. Perhaps, as the newscaster suggested, all these signs should become Dawlish's USP (unique selling point). Tourists might queue to have their photos taken beside/in front of these infamous signs. And like said in an earlier posting, if these signs generate more tourists then perhaps that's how the town centre economy can be boosted.
Just done something I rarely do, bought a Murdoch newspaper, in this case The Times. Dawlish and its signage is the lead story on page 7. The Times coverage is then continued on its leader page (35) with a satirical skit. @ZIGGY - given The Times has a paywall are you able to post the page 35 leader piece on here as well as the page 7 article?(which you have already done, above.)
And look out for Sky News today 1.45pm
A little birdy's told me that the mayor of Dawlish was/is on BBC radio Devon this morning talking about this.
BBC Spotlight southwest also carried a feature on this last night. I looked at my partner and said "It must be a slow news night. This story was doing the rounds in Dawlish 2/3 weeks ago. " Then I thought - "Hang on a minute - perhaps all this free publicity concerning the town will entice visitors to come here to see all these unnecessary signs. Job done then in terms of getting more ...
Because the meeting wouldn't be quorate due to not enough councillors being able to attend due to illness and work committments.
To return to the substantive topic of this thread - the application for a fast food trailer to be sited at the Marine Garage site - I have just noticed that the town council's planning meeting due to take place this evening and at which this planning application was due to be discussed - has been cancelled.
From the minutes of the July meeting of the town council's Finance and General Purposes Committee Members agreed that funding should be secured first as there would be no point progressing further with the project only to discover at a later date that funding could not be obtained. a) RESOLVED – by majority that the £91,531.83 Section 106 money and the £33,000 CIL Teignbridge ...
Are you talking about the millenium money? https://www.dawlish.com/thread/details/2031
