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Actually, how to bring more trade to the town centre is to have glorious days like today when the kids are on holiday from school. The town is buzzing with people.

Diana Mond
Diana Mond
25 Oct 2017

Mildly amusing at best. However Roma Everest (who’d have guessed that she’s friends with Sheila Thomas?????!) clearly had the ironymeter switched off when she wrote about dinosaurs and people looking to make names for themselves...

The precedent was set locally when Richard Weekes was granted permission to build a house in the middle of his supposedly precious farmland. This Leo Michaels chap however seems to be a nasty piece of work. I’m not sure though that planning decisions can be based on a persons character.

majorp
majorp
25 Oct 2017

I don't suppose any of the councillors thought about obtaning a mental health report on this person before they granted the go ahead. Like the "TheObserver" has said, "will he go after the right one?"

TheObserver
TheObserver
25 Oct 2017

I'm not sure what to make it of this...I mean this guy shoots someone with a crossbow, and shoots the wrong person...when he's out will he go after the right one? Not nice to think about. I hope that having one conversion on the land does now open up the permission for more to be built. Then we live in the land and time where any green space is worthy of a house...sadly.

Well yes it was quite a humerous post, I have to agree. However it is also quite true.... what is the need to make it into fortress? None I say! And I would happily pay to thrown bakers buns at people. I'm in favour of green open spaces, gardens, features etc in Dawlish. Yes plain and simple does not make money, I'll be the first to accept, but its the tranquill and simpleness that sells Dawlish. ...

Lynne
Lynne
25 Oct 2017

Do read the lead letter in today's Gazette (Put 'em in the stocks). I think it's hilarious.

That’ll fix it Tuesday, 24 October 2017  By dawlishnewspapers.co.uk in Local People The first Fix Fest SKILLED volunteers are lining up to help at the second Dawlish Fix Fest. A professional electrician and others with skills including digital repairs, welding, bike repairs, clothing and textiles and IT issues will be at the event which takes place on Saturday, October 28 at ...

This decision makes me feel uncomfortable.

Dawlish News
Dawlish News
24 Oct 2017

Planners have given the go ahead to convert a barn at a farm in Dawlish with a long and complicated planning history into a home. Although part of the barn is used as a home, there is a current Enforcement Notice requiring the cessation of its residential use. The application is complicated further by the fact that the land owner, Leo Michaels, had recently admitted causing grievous ...