General Discussion
Who is the you? Do you have a particular you in mind or are you speaking to a general you? For what it is worth this particular you thinks along your lines in that if people want lower taxes then it follows that public services will be negatively impacted. If, on the other hand, people want good public services then they have to pay for them. And that means higher taxation. There is ...
Yo! Look what I've just found! http://www.teignbridge.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=37272&p=0 it's a breakdown of recent large developments in the TDC area (and therefore includes Dawlish). If you keep scrolling down you will come across the housing developments in Dawlish and a breakdown of the developer S106 contributions eg how much and on what spent.
Don't suppose you know how many of the 200,000 are made up of overseas students? I only ask as I think overseas students are included in these figures. There is an argument that says they shouldn't be, given as they are here only on a temporary basis. Also, don't forget, they bring money into this country. University/college fees for example and then what they spend when in this country. ...
Putin - quite possibly it is because the ex communist buffer states twixt the west and Russia are now members of the EU and/or NATO that Putin has acted in the way he has in Ukraine. And it did go through my mind as well that if, say, we were to pull out of the EU then an awful lot of expats presently living in other parts of Europe might find coming back to dear ol' Blighty either ...
Well, it could be argued that local authorities are indeed struggling to balance the books. Cut backs in funding from central government plus restrictions on how much they can increase council tax are bound to lead to them struggling. How to raise extra money? Well, one way is by giving permission for new houses to be built. Councils get a certain amount of money from central government ...
On the question of the extra surgery. I've read somewhere (comments made on the emerging local plan I think) that the local NHS have said that the site at Barton surgery is such that, if necesary, it can expand to accommodate more patients. Words to that effect anyway.
and on the subject of farmland and the cost of housing...........here's an extract from a letter in last week's Observer. "...........the real problem is the cost of land and its increase in value when planning permission is granted. Ten acres of farmland worth £8,000 per acre can multiply 80 times with a stroke of the planner's pen. This is lunatic: having created this value the ...
Questions I have asked myself about the new house building have been along these lines: Should this country be as self sufficent as it possible can be? Yes. Should we then be building on green, fertile, food producing, farmland? No Are there then enough brown field sites in areas of housing demand to support the amount of new housing needed? Doubt it. Is there 'spare' housing in parts ...
Network Rail’s report: Network Rail are ongoing with works to reopen the walkways from Dawlish Warren to Dawlish and Teignmouth to Smugglers following the successful line reopening 4th April. Works are now being undertaken around train services, with Network Rail working in available periods to reopen the sea wall areas for the public as soon as possible. Current planned dates for reopening ...
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