General Discussion
Am I the only one who thinks that Dawlish could do with a rest from all this? Everyone could take some time out to reflect on their own thoughts and perhaps more importantly the opinions of people who disagreed with them. There are elections next year, Peter and Ann Large, Pete Cross, Val Mawhood and Bernard can then stand for election and take on the workload of being a town councillor. ...
Just to be clear, Air Show and Carnival got exactly the same financial support from the Town Council this year. We try to be even handed. Our grant to Carnival was specifically to overhaul the float. Obviously, I'm personally not happy about recent events. Who would be?
@ZIGGY . I've had an email to say the work has been done. Will try to find time today or tomorrow to walk it again, but sounds like it is ok now. Thanks for highlighting this
@Carer "there will be 2 portaloos up at lea mount from first thing saturday morning." hope that helps
County Councillor has requested that the vegetation is cut back on this path, hopefully before Air Show !
Only if the Air Show have organised this. It's not a service Teignbridge would supply I will ask and post the reply I get
It was confirmed to me that it was Devon County responsibility, and I was promised that the local service team would be asked to sort it Thanks for the prompt, I will follow it up Always willing to think the best, it may be that they have logged it as a task to do before Air Show Day as the path will be well used. But, I will chase it up Michael
@Mcjrpc Teignbridge said that there were key documentation deadlines for the Carlton Theatre project in Teignmouth. These fell during the time period for bidding to CCF and they could not take officers off this project to write a bid for Dawlish.
Yes Lynne Exactly right. The opportunity for Dawlish to get some serious government money is here now. Teignbridge opted not to follow up this chance because it was too busy on other projects, and the Town Council stepped forward to ensure that we didn't lose out by default.
If your analysis is correct Lynne, all the more reason for the Town Council to ensure that we move forward to put in applications rather than sit around waiting for things to happen. You wouldn't believe the amount of work it requires to make a government funding application, and faced with Teignbridge not making any bids it has fallen to town councillors, most particularly Bob Vickery, to put ...
