Dawlish News
More than 100 people in Dawlish are waiting for allotments to become available. There are just 27 plots up for grabs. The lease on the Browns Brook site is due to expire in 2012. The town council will be giving an update at next month's meeting and warns new agreements could increase the current of £38 paid in rent. Anyone got a vacant piece of garden?
Residents of Clovelly Rise, Dawlish have sent letters and photos to Dawlish Town Council complaining about trees which were felled to improve coastal views. The matter will be discussed at the council meeting tomorrow to find out who carried out the work and whether permission was sought.
A fire at a home in Dawlish left a total of 13 residents homeless. The fire broke out in a ground floor flat of the four-storey property in West Cliff. Firefighters rescued a married couple from a first floor balcony of the Victorian listed building. Paramedics treated five residents at the scene, one for a foot injury and four for smoke inhalation. Firefighters from Dawlish, Teignmouth and ...
The council-owned Park Road building will end up costing electors £250,000 despite it lying unused for the last 12 months. Furious residents say they want an opology and have designed a placard bearing the image of a white elephant and handed it over to the council's finance and general purposes committe. The council bought the premises at 34 Park Road, Dawlish in February 2010 at the price of ...
A couple who bought the property 18 months ago for £1.7million are facing life on the edge after their garden crashed into the sea. The house in Dawlish, Devon was built by Nick Skilton, managering directon of Wessex Products. He was granted planning permission in 2005 for a four bedroom house with a glass sprial staircase and indoor pool despite its apparently percarious postion. In 2007 it ...
Network Rail has invested more than £8.5m over the last 10 years to protect the railway line along the Dawlish and Teignmouth coast line. Climate change experts have warned that sea levels could rise making the line more difficult to protect. An alternative line would cost about £100m and would pass through Okehampton, Tavistock and Plymouth. Anne Marie Morris conserative MP for Newton Abbot ...
Spending cuts of £54 million by Devon County Council will affect every home in the country. Dawlish recycling centre will close in March as part of the £2.1 million cut on waste disposal. The nearest recycling centre will be Exeter or Newton Abbot which will be introducing new charges to recycle. It is also feared the conservative plan to cut youth work may have an effect on the new Red Rock ...
After years of planning Sainsbury's has confirmed construction work on its multi-million pound store at Shutterton will start soon. It's hoping to be trading by autumn.Nine months later new business units will be available for tenants bringing with them prospect of desirable new jobs. It is thought between the shop and units more than 200 post could be created. Jim Woolcott, Sainsbury's new store ...
A Dawlish man who went missing 25 years ago was never found. Police have re-opened an investigation into his disappearance. 24 year old Martyn Tucker lived in Exeter Road at the time he went missing, he also ran the Marine Stores with his wife. Martyn was last seen at around 11.30pm at the Gresham Arms pub in Commercial Road, now called the Laffin Pig. It is beleived he may have walked along the ...
Three pets that were found dead beside their smashed-up hutch in the garden of a Dawlish home are being investigated by the RSPCA and the police. The rabbit and two guinea pigs were left for three days while the owner visited family. The RSPCA believes the animals may have been strangled, or suffocated or may have died of fright. Three boys aged about 14 or 15 were seen to go into the garden ...
