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Sainsburys roundabout
22 Oct 2015

I really can't see what is confusing people about this.  From the Exeter direction there are 2 usual options  - left into Sainsbury's approach road, or straight on towards Dawlish.  So to turn left you would sit in the left hand lane, which then logically leaves you to sit in the right hand lane if you want to go straight on.  Simple!  And of course if you do want to go all the way round and back ...

Leatash, last few times we've been up to Central London we paid to use public toilets so they are getting extra revenue that way. The only free toilets were private ones like in cafes or museums. Prices ranged from 20p to £1. Even when I was small I remember having to pay to go through a turnstile to get into public toilets in the town I grew up in. Had the same for public toilets in Cumbria a few ...

OurSoul is right that there are no parking charges on the estate, but the original parking notices that were erected on the estate made it clear that there were time limits for parking and over and above that then parking tickets could be issued.  It's the same as parking on a road, for free, up to a limit of say 2 hours, but after that you can be ticketed. You don't need to display a ticket there ...

8 Jul 2015

That's interesting to know User4549. Thanks for posting that.

8 Jul 2015

They probably have to do that as part of their agreement with the person who owns the burger van.  When all the parking issues were being sorted out years ago it was agreed that a Reserved space would be placed where it is for the burger van, this is then leased from the council, so it is paid for and I believe renewed annually (or at least that was the discussion that took place in the general ...

In many, many years from now, when the sea levels rise and the coast of the UK is pushed further inland, the Dawlish Sea Wall will probably still be standing proud as a testament to the sheer amount of concrete poured into it over the last years or so.  It will be fantastic to be able to walk all the way along the sea wall again.  You don't realise how much you will miss something until you can't ...

Teignmouth Hardware store, round near the Brunswick car park maybe?

I would still like to know if anyone has ever actually been given a ticket for parking on the estate and why User 4549 is getting so het up about the issue.

26 Jun 2015

OK so I'm really confused now.  OurSoul asked the original question about the estate name and whether it was a private road.  But then User 4549 is jumping in about FOI requests about the parking.  Again, as someone who works on the estate, I've never heard of anyone actually receiving a fine or parking ticket or whatever.  Happy to be corrected on that, obviously but it seems strange to get so ...

25 Jun 2015

Those main parking notices have been there for quite a few years now. The parking notices went up and the yellow lines were painted after consultation meetings with Teignbridge (and then leader Alan Connett) and business owners/landlords and other interested parties from the estate this was due to the massive problems caused by overcrowded parking on pavements and on every spare square inch of ...