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Just had a walk down by St Gregory's Church and as I came out of the grounds towards Dawlish Water. I was surprised to see about 20ish fairly old people (60-80 ) sitting on chairs in a tight circle behind Newhay Close on the field. My concern was that they were all within arms length of each other and not wearing masks. A few of them had even driven their cars along the footpath and parked on the ...
Happened to be in town yesterday and noticed that the 'For Sale' sign that had gone up back in June is no longer there. So thought I'd click on the estate agents link that I posted above. When I posted that it back in June it gave details and pictures of the property. Just tried the link again - now just a blank page.
Just come across this http://www.camlins.com/projects/shell-cove-dawlish/ which concerns a previous proposed development on the site. If you read the blurb, yet again there is reference to a private beach. From research done by others who have posted their findings on Eyes of Dawlish it seems that there is a private footpath leading to the beach across Shell Cove House grounds that ...
The good old days.
Years ago folk used to fish there at night and access was via the railway tunnel, and there was a time when you could pay to use the footpath to access the cove.
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When I worked for Hiremasters we used to deal with Network Rail, and the access to the beach via the shell cove house site we understood was controlled by the said Network rail. Not once did anyone on the House site question our parking of delivery lorries in the grounds or the Network Rail staff that used to come and collect the equipment from us via the wooden walk way.
From what I can gather it seems the footpath was never a public one. It was, and is, a private footpath on private land. What is being disputed is the ownership of Shell Cove. Is it privately owned or not? This came to a head last weekend when someone from the town accessed the beach via a boat and was told by someone there that the beach was a private one and that they were not allowed ...
But the footpath through that land has been Closed for a long time and it begs the question why? Did the town council agree to the closure of the footpath? Were the necessary notices advertised? I don't ever remember seeing notice of closure to the footpath.
Well said Fred and Deedoodle, you really do both speak the truth about all this. It really is now all about control and it is damm scary!