General Discussion
And on top of the mess this is causing can it really be true that the Strand is closing for resurfacing. At the same time!
I think that if you forget to fill in your name while posting, the system default setting is 'anon' so there's probably a lot of people all lumped under that one title.
Bob Sinkerson should not be pushed off these boards by a grumpy small minded minority who have no undestanding of the word 'debate'.
Stay with it, Bob!
Lost under a lot of the cheap and cheerful, but not irretrievably so, is a distinguished architectural history. Just check out Pevsner. So we're starting with a lot going for us, not just 'any old resort'.
Guba Guba said: 'Most of the tourist stay at the Warren not a place the more discerning visitor would want to stay'. I think he puts his finger here on the potential conflict to be found between the 'cheap and cheerful' Warren, and Dawlish itself, which is now gearing up for Regeneration, which effectively means moving upmarket. Given that many of Dawlish Town's visitors are those at the Warren ...
Support this 100% even if I would never use it; we must never give away these traditional rights or we'll be trampled all over.
I think the answer to this is that most people in Dawlish drive to Newton or Exeter supermarkets to do their shopping. So the small firms in direct competition with supermarkets have bitten the dust, those able to find a valuable niche e.g. the deli in the Strand have, and will, survive.
Can't honestly see that it's changed much in the last three years for good or bad; perhaps you have?
Some of the High Street flats already have residents; others have signs in the window advertising 'to let'. So why the scare stories saying they've all been given to foreigners? They appear to be accessible on the open market.