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There is no furore. All it is is that there are few people who are unhappy about this, and it's the same old people who are always unhappy about everything that's ever proposed to improve Dawlish.
Is there anywhere in Devon where there is a marina the size of, and with the facilities of (ie shops, restaurants, cinemas) along the lines of Port Solent and Brighton Marina? https://www.portsolent.com/ http://www.brightonmarina.co.uk/
The famous black swans in Dawlish cannot stop breeding as there are yet more swans on the way. See more... http://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/more-famous-black-swans-way-421506
Proposals for a harbour have been put forward the idea was to extend the sea wall at boat cove and have summer moorings folk with boats have money was the thinking the idea never got past the drawing board.
You are missing the point which is.......... that there was no explicit place on the consultation questionnaire for those who did not wish to have the play park built at all to be able to register that view. And even if it turned out to be only one person who felt that way - the question still needed to have been asked. It wasn't. And this is what the furore is all about. And ...
The people of Dawlish dont give a monkeys its a handfull of folk who voted the strange thing is it was about the same numbers who voted for the Strand. Folk are to busy making ends meat working all hours they dont care about a play park its of no importance to the vast majority of folk in this town. I estimate less than 20 people care passionately about the building of this play park. I made a ...
And all our councillors can come up with is a playpark on the lawn, simply copying Paignton and Teignmouth! Not one of them has a creative thought or bone in their bodies!
Perhaps we could organise our own consultation to find out what the people of Dawlish really want! I remember the first draft of questions for the 'slug' on the lawn, they were so loaded it took my breath away! Were the questions for the survey on the playpark put before the full council for approval?
This is well-known behaviour on the part of pied wagtails and also other small birds. They believe that there is safety in numbers and so roost together to foil hawks and owls and other predators. You can see them in trees in town centres like Torquay and cities such as Exeter where they also have the benefit of it being a few degrees warmer than the countryside.
For many years (and this may interest twitchers) I have watched Pied Wagtails do something I did not know about. When it is time for them to go to bed, they fly close into their roosting site many at a time, sometimes I have seen upto about thirty. They then fly into a tree abit closer to where they sleep, about five or six at a time and then with a cheep from one of them, they bury ...