General Discussion
Don't suppose anyone copied the text by any chance? @Barbarawils68 ?
I have referred on other threads to the Housing and Planning Bill that is presently going through parliament. On Tuesday, certain aspects of it were debated in the House of Commons. Our MP, Anne Marie Morris, spoke on the issue of Community Right of Appeal and Sustainable Drainage Systems (after all we do have a flooding/drainage issue in Dawlish, do we not?). Click on this link to read what ...
It has been suggested to me that we could have had a really really radical solution to the cycling path/hair pin bend issue which could have been....... To close down Lanhearne and then use the whole site (including where the allotments used to be) to really widen the road and at the same time put in a cycle path.
NPPF has sections in it about viability. And the present Government is not exactly pro Affordable/social rented housing. If you put viability reasons and legislation that is effectively anti affordable/social rented housing together then, I believe, developers will find way after way of wriggling out of providing affordable rental housing. There is lots of stuff going on in parliament ...
Ooooo........er........ Other landowners/developers had better take note then.
Yes it will be a shame but........ I do not know the people who organised it but I have often thought about the huge amount of pressure they must have been under with regard to it all. I know I wouldn't want that and perhaps, now, neither do they?
Is this used for anything anymore or is it just standing empty?
Number of new homes due to be built in Dawlish over the next years is circa 1000. On DA2 (that's the area northwest of Secmaton Lane, made up mainly but not exclusively of, Gatehouse Farm, Secmaton Farm and Langdon (NHS)) 25% of housing is scheduled to be affordable. 25% of 1000 = 250. Not that far off the 227 figure that you quote. BUT the affordables will not be built all at once. ...
and here is the same info again but perhaps more clearly worded? What is an affordable home? The government defines it as a home for people “whose needs are not met by the market”. Largely, it includes homes that are not part of the private market. Social rent – homes owned by local authorities and housing associations, charging roughly 40pc to 60pc of market prices ...
If all this wasn't so potentially serious and dangerous it would be hilarious. It strikes me there's some kind of weird and wonderful 'Alice in Wonderland' logic going on here. (the road is narrow in some places already therefore it is okay if we make it narrower in other places as well). Where's me whacky baccy?
