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Devon CEO pay rise
1263
1263
26 Jul 2022

It seems that the Devon council passed a vote to increase the salary of its new chief executive to 200k a year.This is the council that are seemingly £40 odd million in debt.The reason for the increase is the usual waffle about can't attach the right people on £175k/year. Would love to know how the dawlish/Teignbridge councillors on Devon council voted on this one.... Crisis what crisis ...

https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/press-release/634/more-than-23000-uk-applicants-for-nursing-courses-rejected-last-year-even-as-covid-ravaged-britain

Lynne
Lynne
26 Jul 2022

and then add in the numbers who, whilst on the payroll, are not actually at work due to sickness (stress/Covid etc). And another thing - if some of those vacancies are being filled by temporary agency staff then how much is that costing the NHS?

Bin tax
BOO HOO
BOO HOO
26 Jul 2022

One thing you can guarantee as the years trundle on is the council taxes will continue to increase and the services decline. Whilst, in my opinion, councillor's wages and benefits will more than likely increase. No different to the m.p's who are professionals at manipulating the truth to get their own way and then doing the complete opposite when they have what they want. Been going on for ...

According to this newspaper report https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/hundreds-health-jobs-need-filling-7378160&nbsp ; there are 713 NHS job vacancies within 30 miles of Newton Abbot, 347 of which are in Exeter and Torbay. 170 are in the Exeter area 177 are in Torbay

Decision: Resolved that this Council recommends refusal on the grounds that: ·         The Committee has severe concerns regards the link road alignment from this site to the adjoining application site 21/02674 (see image below and ‘X’ marker), ·         The Committee has concerns regards which application (22/01067/MAJ or 22/01042/MAJ) covers the link road access from Gatehouse ...

Resolved that this Council recommends refusal on the grounds that: ·         The site does not conform with the DA2 Supplementary Planning Document in that that the western boundary path appears incomplete, ·         The proposed link road appears to narrow when connecting with application site 22/01042/MAJ and does not appear to adhere to ‘avenue’ specifications; and ...

Decision: In light of the concerns the Committee has with applications 22/01067/MAJ and 22/01042/MAJ, particularly the link road alignment, it was resolved that this Council continues to request that should the Planning Officer be minded to approve the application, the Town Council Planning Committee requests that the application is called-in to the Teignbridge Planning Committee for ...

I was just trawling through previous threads looking for something completely different when I came across this posting by me which I had totally forgotten about. I'll try and find out what the outcome was. (the links on the post no longer work by the way). Do we have enough pre school child care provision in Dawlish? 58 Views 1 Posts New subject ...

Decision: Resolved that this Council has no objection to the application subject to satisfactory completion to surface of access road (Pine Tree Close).