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Santa cycle ride organised by Braking Wind.  Bob at Braking Wind Cycles usually organises an annual Santa Ride and some of you might like to join him. It is a casual and  fun affair with an easy ride.Everybody turning up to ride will be responsible for themselves!  It is not a Sustrans/Destination Dawlish event, but it will be a good opportunity for people to find out what is happening in the area ...

Perhaps when cars get splashed with sewage on the A379, and/or Sainsbury's gets affected perhaps then do you think more folk might start caring about it?

5 Dec 2015

Not, strictly speaking a DA2 planning application but as it is a near as dammit one  I thought I would post about this planning app. on this thread. It is on the TDC Planning Committee agenda on 15th December. 15/02018/MAJ, Land at Secmaton Lane, Dawlish - Approval of reserved matters for six flats and eight dwellings with associated parking and ancillary areas pursuant to ...

5 Dec 2015

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-35001707

Sewage issues in Secmaton Lane covered by BBC spotlight on lunchtime news today. May do same coverage again on early eveing news?

I’ve just been reading an article in a housing magazine which says that housing associations could exempt hundreds of thousands of homes from Right to Buy. Last week, 5 housing associations launched a RtB pilot scheme. Apparently the landlords (ie housing associations) are free to decide which properties to exempt from RtB and those included in this exemption will include homes built under a ...

There is a town council planning committee meeting on Thursday 10th December. Amongst other planning apps being considered is this one: PARISH: DAWLISH WARD: Dawlish Central and North East APPLICATION REF: 15/02700/MAJ OFFICER: Ian Perry DECISION LEVEL: DEL LOCATION: Land at Langdon PROPOSAL: Outline application for phased development of up to 200 dwellings, 3 hectares of ...

An extract from our MP's column in the latest edition of the Gazette. ".........I met up with officers from Teignbridge Council to talk through the implications of the Autumn Statement and the Housing and Planning Bill...................The biggest changes and challenges for the council come from the Housing and Planning Bill which lays down guidelines requiring councils to promote starter ...

So, we could have a hike in council tax to pay for social care. (see below for what George Osborne said about this in his Autumn Statement). " the health service cannot function effectively without good social care. The truth we need to confront is this: many local authorities are not going to be able to meet growing social care needs unless they have new sources of funding. That, in ...

So.......we could have an increase in house prices (caused by BtL landlords purchasing before April 2016 deadline.) This would increase costs for those others, non BtL landlords, wishing to buy a home. And we could have an increase in market rents caused by BtL landlords passing on the extra stamp duty costs they will incur after the April 2016 deadline to their tenants. This will increase ...