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What a very odd comparison to make; Dawlish, Totnes and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Is there some relevance, I'm presuming you once lived in Tower Hamlets.
This is Dawlish, not Totnes. Some Councillors have strange ideas. The Lawn should be left for the recreation of locals and visitors.
Infrastructure spending hasn't ceased, the railways seem to be doing quite well out of it (admittedly not down here!). Crossrail has a £16bn budget, and the HS2 railway, when it gets started, is estimated to be costing £32bn. Hardly loose change, by anyone's standards. And of course, there was that £9bn jamboree in London last year, which kept quite a lot builders occupied for a few years.
We pay around £53 million per day into the EU coffers. All the money that comes back in the form of grants and subsidies is just our own money being returned, so why don't we just cut out the EU middleman and keep it here in the first place? And as Britian is a net contributor we are paying out far more than we get back.
What is taking place on the The Lawn is nothing less than an environmental crime.
I wonder if the Co-op will be quite so confident about revenues once Morrisons has been open for a few months.
As Ziggy says, very convenient. Rather too convenient in my opinion.
@FredBassett Do you know for a fact the Councillors were at a jolly last night and were all hungover this morning, or are you just making that up?
As did the Co-op, until Sainsburys came into town.
I am very disappointed to read that the bridge is going to be painted grey, what could be more boring?! This is a seaside town, it should be bright and welcoming, Torquay has managed to put a bit of colour into its bridge, so why can't we? I suppose the grey colour will at least complement the equally dull viaduct bridge.