General Discussion
Please can anyone who knows anyone who lives in Carhaix Way alert them to the fact that Devon County Council Highways department regard CW as a through route from/to Secmaton Lane/Gatehouse area to the A379 Exeter Road. The increase in through traffic will also no doubt be felt by the residents of Pidgely Road. The expression rat run comes to mind. Click on this link to see what Devon ...
12noon - 8pm Friday 16th Oct. Starcross Pavilion, Generals Lane, EX6 8PY http://www.devonlife.co.uk/out-about/events/starcross_and_cockwood_tidal_defence_scheme_public_exhibition_1_4255656
To paraphrase a certain 1970s/80s tennis player - They Cannot Be Serious! Heavy plant traffic using Secmaton Lane to go to/from those building sites? Have the people at DCC Highways Department seen the width of the lane?
I keep being told by those who went to this 'consultation' that there was no means by which comments about what is being proposed could be left at the time. No recording of who visited and how they could be contacted. In fact no written records of any kind were made. Is that right? In which case can I urge all those who have comments to make on these proposals to do so directly to TDC ...
And why was this, whatever you want to call it, held in the busy reception area of the leisure centre when literally just down the road is the Red Rock Centre, a community building remember(!), whose ground floor is no longer used? Surely the ground floor of the Red Rock would have been so much more of an appropriate location for such a public event?
There is a town council meeting this coming Wednesday. Item 14 on the agenda concerns the town council's response to this consultation. http://www.dawlish.gov.uk/edit/uploads/1608.pdf It will be interesting to see what the town council has to say.
I was out of town when the 'consultation' took place. However, I have asked some who attended what they thought of it. Lots of words beginning with 'f' (eg fiasco, futile, farcical). And the letters page of this week's Gazette seems to confirm that impression.
Any chance you could do a similar 'for posterity' photo shoot over Secmaton/Gatehouse way?
click on this link for details of planning application http://gis.teignbridge.gov.uk/TeignbridgePlanningOnline/Results.aspx?Type=Application&Refval=15/02428/MAJ
Looks like it will be a Cavanna development. http://www.cavannahomes.co.uk/developments/dawlish
