General Discussion
Hate to tell you this Flo but I don't doubt for one moment that the houses to be built will be mostly for the open market with a few affordable (whatever 'affordable' means) dwellings thrown in. According to TDC any new housing in Dawlish should be 30% affordable. Anyone who thinks the developers are going to produce that amount is living in cloud cuckoo land. Although there is an amount of ...
@flo - yes i've often thought the very same. probably just doing enough to keep the planners and the planning consent happy. thought they were to be holiday lets. if so, they won't be in a nice rural location for much longer will they? soon they'll be surrounded by builders and all the noise and dirt that will bring. then shortly after that even more houses, and houses, and houses, and houses, ...
Agree with you about the town - the lawn deffo needs something to get people to go into the town. No doubt though that what that should be will be a huge topic of debate. Re the new plan & housing. You on the Steering Group then dbad or has someone been showing you something they shouldn't have? Actually there is a huge hint at where the new houses will more than likely go if you look at the ...
Yes, I have to say I have heard all sorts of stories alleging all sorts of things concerning the buying and selling of land (including James's Plantation) and Andrew Goodridge. Must admit I was a bit confused at the look on his face in the picture in the paper as much as I was by the article. I got the impression that he wasn't happy that this would be his last harvest. In which case, I thought to ...
I've just e-mailed our MP about all of this. Strongly urge others who have similar concerns to do the same. Here is her e-mail address. annemarie.morris.mp@parliament.uk
and here's another link that contains some interesting points http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2011/sep/11/the-big-issue-greenfield-development
Let me pose a hypothetical question: Let us suppose, just for the sake of argument, that via a referendum a local community rejects its proposed neighbourhood plan. What then? In the absence of such a plan would the presumption in favour of development come into play?
Thank you for that link - I was already aware of it and had been taking a look. "gives carte blanche to developers to build whatever they wish wherever they wish" was me paraphrasing the extract below which is taken from the link you have given. Presumption in favour of sustainable development (the presumption ) The presumption is a new policy designed to ensure that the planning system as a ...
'Powers that be' being honest? That's a new one! Why should this lot be any different from the others that have gone before them? Don't make me laugh. Progress eh? Well it all depends on how you define that word. If you think it is progress that national planning policy should, bottom line, basically give carte blanche to developers to build whatever they wish wherever they wish provided they can ...
If you take a look at the letters' page (page 8) of this week's Dawlish Post (that's the freebie that gets delivered to all the doors in Dawlish) you will see there is an attempt to reproduce two letters concerning Mr Goodridge's cornfield. Unfortunately the letters are not reproduced in full. However, if you click on this link you can find the letters in their entirety. ...
