General Discussion
and this letter is in today's Gazette: Dying on its feet… Wednesday, 08 February 2012 Mr T Davies, of Charlton House, Eastcliff Road, Dawlish, writes: Having been to the revitalise Teignbridge exhibition in The Strand and hearing a lot of objections to the scheme, I felt angry enough to put pen to paper for the other side. I have lived in the Dawlish area for about ten years, moving from ...
For info: this link should give you the recommendations found in the Portas report which suggests ways of how high streets and town centres can be revived. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/dec/13/mary-portas-report-recommendations I particularly like number 23 which talks of a public register of high street landlords. Would be very interesting to know who owns what in Dawlish Town Centre ...
Isn't Teignmouth scheduled to be graced with an out of town supermarket sometime in the non too distant future? (Morrisons I think it is at Broadmeadow). Will be interesting to see the impact on Teignmouth town shops when that happens but even more interesting to see the impact on the co-op (both stores).
PS: As well as the Amberline Coast Regeneration Study there was also an earlier report commissioned in 2007/8 by Dawlish Community Trust which concentrated solely on the regeneration of the town centre (as opposed to parish and surrounding areas which the Amberline Coast Regeneration Study is concerned with). This link should take you to the Yellowbook/Dawlish Community Trust 2008 Dawlish Town ...
Hows about in the first instance asking ourselves what it is that would be needed to make each one of us go into Dawlish town centre more often. For example here's an off the top of my head analysis of my situation. 1. Distance from the town centre shops . I live about a 20/25 minute walk from the town centre. Not a problem when the weather is nice - hell to do when it is raining, cold etc. ...
Right then - so as it seems that the 'powers that be' are taking an interest here's how we can help things along. One of the criteria for submitting a bid to be a Portas Pilot is for the bid to contain innovative ideas as to how the town centre could be revitalised and.........for those ideas to be such that they could be replicated in other places. Tall order? Phew! I should say so. Haven't ...
Here's a suggested list of who to lobby. Our MP - Anne-Marie Morris annemarie.morris.mp@parliament.uk Leader of Teignbridge District Council - Cllr Jeremy Christophers - jeremy.christophers@teignbridge.gov.uk TDC Portfolio Holder for Housing and Planning - Cllr Philip Vogel - philip.vogel@teignbridge.gov.uk Teignbridge District Councillor for Dawlish, Rosalind Prowse - Rosalind holds the ...
MP has been copied into all my e-mails. So I imagine she is aware of this scheme come competition (and if she wasn't, she is now!). Have now been told by a Dawlish district councillor that TDC have been alerted. I mentioned above the Amberline Coast Dawlish Regeneration Proposals. For those interested you should find a link to these via the Dawlish Town Council website. ...
But that tight deadline (30th March 2012 for applications) applies to everywhere not just Dawlish. I just feel that if the motivation is there (by the local powers that be as well as the likes of me and you) then the time and energy could be found for an application to be submitted by that tight deadline. Anyone know of any amateur film/video makers?
Here is another link about this. http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/regeneration/2082143 If you look towards the bottom where it says Notes to Editors you can see that the scheme is open to all sizes and locations of communities - cities to villages - including coastal towns. Dawlish does have a plan - sort of - what with the future of the Strand being decided in the next few days and the ...
