Dawlish News
Cofton Country Holidays, Dawlish Warren, have asked planners to approve proposals to provide an area for pitching tents exclusively for use by visitors arriving by public transport. The proposal site would be an asset to the local area in creating a carbon neutral holiday destination this plugging a gap that exists in the Dawlish Warren area for tenting and camp sites. During the last ten ...
Fire appliances from Dawlish, Teignmouth and Torquay were mobilised to a report of a roof on fire in East Cliff Close in Dawlish. Upon arrival the incident commander requested a further two fire appliances as the roof well alight. Two appliances were subsequently mobilised from Teignmouth and Torquay together with an Incident Command Unit from Totnes and an aerial ladder platform from Torquay. ...
Business leaders have warned residents in a South Devon town to "use us or lose us" as a regeneration project gets underway. The £1.5 million scheme to rejuvenate Dawlish Strand will start later this month in an attempt to reverse the decline in the town. The joint initiative between several local authorities has been developed over the past two and a half years with public consultations ...
The £1.5m regeneration scheme for The Strand gets under way on January 21st. The scheme will include widening the pavement, new street furniture, lighting and parking along one side of the road only. The scheme is being jointly financed by Devon County Council, Teignbridge Council and Dawlish Town Council. The stone wall between The Strand and Lawn will be removed, the concrete shelter ...
A Plymouth-based train driver has won a European transport photography competition for his stunning photograph of a passenger train in Dawlish. Chris Hopkins of CrossCountry has won the Arriva Photo of the Year 2012 award for his dramatic image of a Voyager 220 at Coryton Cove. His image of the CrossCountry train nestled in between the magnificent red cliffs of Dawlish was judged alongside ...
New plastic Dawlish station footbridge opened and immediately listed! Newton Abbot MP Anne Marie Morris has officially opened the UK’s first Grade II listed plastic footbridge at Dawlish Station. She cut a ribbon across the steps to the new footbridge off the main platform at the seaside station on the south coast of Devon. The footbridge was part of a £1m improvement project which saw the ...
£25 in cash was found in Marine Parade and handed in to the Police Office in Brunswick Place. Later the same day a wallet containing more than £130 cash was also handed in. The wallet was found in the Strand by two Dawlish teenagers, despite the claims by two men stood nearby that they thought it belonged to a friend. The girls were not convinced and the wallet was eventually handed over to ...
Two of Dawlish pubs the Lansdowne and the South Devon Inn will soon be offering a cool new drink endorsed by the police. It is hoped by offering water to drink between sessions will help to reduce the effects of over-indulging and its associated habits of anti-social behaviour, violent crime and domestic abuse. 47 dispensers in the county have been paid for by nearly £12,000 funding by ...
Work will go on during Christmas to stabilise cliffs along the railway line between Dawlish and Teignmouth. Rail bosses confirmed it will be done when trains are not running along the vulnerable stretch of the line and services will not be affected Protective fencing, installed ten years ago has buckled under the weight of mud and rocks brought down after several days of heavy rain. It is ...
Composite Advantage LLC’s FiberSPAN™ fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) bridge deck was selected for Boston’s largest pedestrian and cyclist bridge project to date. Steel footbridge replaced with composite at UK railway station The railway station in the English seaside town of Dawlish has seen a corroded steel footbridge replaced with composite. This is the first composite bridge installed at a ...
