Dawlish News
ajor £220,000 improvement works are set to be carried out at Dawlish Warren car park. While the works are carried out, sections of the car park will be closed periodically for the safety of the public and traders. Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/major-improvements-planned-dawlish-warren-1506635
To Lynne: I wrongly, it seems, thought that the Council was involved in determining what businesses open on The Strand. Mea culpa. It should have been the Planning Commission, I guess. So replace that with my naming the Council in my post - the concept is the same. We now have 9-soon-to-be-10 cafes, 4 barber shops and how many charity shops on the street. Services are dwindling at an amazing rate. ...
A lot of the older people who live in Dawlish will soon be marooned in their homes if all the shops disappear. For a great many of them, the only face to face interaction with other people is when they go shopping, to the post office, bank, etc. It can't be any good for their mental and physical health to be stuck indoors without any reason to go out or place to go to. @leatash we may be ...
More and more folk now do vast amounts of shopping online you just have to look at the amount of food and parcel delivery vehicles in and around Dawlish on a daily basis. I recently needed a new pair of walking boots i buy the same make from the same retailer and as with most things the boots are manufactured in China a well known brand sold by lots of major retailers. This time i have purchased ...
I agree that not everyone has computer access or knowledge and even if they do it doesn't follow that they do online banking. But, it seems that many do. Hence the drop in face to face transactions. It is the old adage. If you don't use it, you'll lose it. Why is a commercial decision taken by the bank anything to do with the council? (and which council are we talking about here? town council? ...
What is a disgrace is that the closing of the last bank in town will be a great stress on those people who depend on being able to bank face to face. Everyone does not have computer access or knowledge. Lots of people need to access CASH in an amount that the Co-op or other ATMs cannot deal with. Where is the council on this? Why didn't they do something to prevent this from happening? Why are ...
It has been bought by a family-owned hotel chain for about £1.3 million and they plan to spend well over another £1 million on a phased upgrade. Kerian Barnes, the operations director of Starboard Hotels, forecast the Cliffden on the Dawlish Road would be good for local businesses. Read more... ...
Purchasing health care for people living in Torbay and the surrounding area cost £13 million more than the budget set by NHS England last year. The South Devon and Torbay CCG represents 32 GP practices and buys health care for people living in an area stretching from Dawlish, southwards nearly to Kingsbridge, and inland to Dartmoor. Read more... ...
I saw drinking going on outside of Seabreeze the other night. Does this mean the licence WAS granted?
Teignmouth hospital could close as part of a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ opportunity to create a new health centre in the town. Routine physio services and out-patient appointments would move to the new building, with more specialist needs being met in Dawlish or Newton Abbot Read more... https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/teignmouth-hospital-could-close-amid-1484190