General Discussion
Seeing as it was reported by several groups and media outlets that '77% of Dawlish residents voted in favour of the play park on The Lawn' . That being well over 10,000 residents in Dawlish, although all residents of Teignbridge were also allowed to contribute to the questionaire, 77% of 10,000 is, I wonder, under a 1,000 ... I think not. lies, damned lies and statistics.
Typical local council initiative to just pass the buck for over half a year and say Oh! it's not my problem its their's. Good old tax/rate payers money being well spent, I think not. You could put 10 bins at the location and it still would not stop those commiting this lazy act of littering. How about getting a 'working group' of criminals from one of our districts jails to go and clean it ...
In my opinion the last thing on the council and Lawn groups mind will be a cost effective, practical and pleasing to the eye band stand. Call me cynical, but I would not be surpised if the 1,2,3,4,5 and 6th thing on their mind is a very expensive, ill thought out playpark for a minority of people to use seldomly during the summer months on The Lawn. Use the play park near the Manor House and ...
Change the record Mond.
The new link road should have been paid for out of the pockets of the developer's who are the only one's who will profit from the homes that will now be built. I blame the planning department who should have enforced that the planning approval for the new homes would only be signed off once the link road had been constructed by and/or on behalf of the developer's using their own money. As ...
How about the new 'Lawn group' could get rid of the ridiculously ineffective prohibition notices from around The Lawn. They are totally ineffective for the purpose they were installed for and the police do NOTHING when the actions of certain people contravene them. All it does is broadcast to visitors that The Lawn and surrounding area of Dawlish are not the place to enjoy a spot of peace and ...