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A CONTROVERSIAL new multi-million pound coastal park in Dawlish will be built - but mystery surrounds the exact location. Teignbridge Council has confirmed that an agreement has been reached to buy land at Dawlish to create a public park on the cliffs between Dawlish and Dawlish Warren, as 1,000 new homes are being built on the outskirts of the town. Read more... ...
Lovely weather for the start of Carnival Week, lots of people on the lawn today. Wishing everyone who organised and helped in anyway a very successful week. More pics... http://www.dawlish.com/photo?albumid=1524
The brook along Tucks Plot
This is the relevant extract from the Sainsbury's S106 town centre developer contribution document: £200,000 towards "projects aimed at sustaining the vitality and viability of Dawlish town centre and including works to meet objectives contained in the Town Centre Masterplan dated April 2008 as published by the Dawlish Community Trust". ...
The difference between Teignmouth and Dawlish is that even with a playpark and novelty golf Teignmouth still have a lot of green left for picnicking and kicking the ball around. They simply have much more space than we do in Dawlish. As we saw this week, the fair took up most of the lawn area, which was fine and thoroughly enjoyed by those who attended, so the only space for families was behind ...
Flood prevention measures have been carried out on the Dawlish Warren Road near Cockwood. Network Rail undertook the work as part of its Railway Upgrade Plan which will benefit rail passengers, residents, businesses and road users.In the Victorian era, culverts were placed under the railway in order to divert water misplaced by the construction of the tracks. Read more... ...
I thought I'd read somewhere that the money for this project is only available if it's to be located on the Lawn. I may have misread that of course. I've recently wondered a few times whilst taking young members of my family over to play at the park in Teignmouth, whether residents there complained using similar arguments about green spaces etc when it was first proposed? Whilst we had to ...
Reisdents of the town centre need green open space every bit as much as those residents of the new housing, Morty. Not only that, The Lawn is a very attractiive and vital piece of green infrastructure in its own right, with the space put to a multitude of uses over the summer, boosting trade considerably for our retailers, cafes and food outlets. I have yet to see any data that would show ...
It will indeed. Hopefully in the same vein as other recent improvements to the locality.
Time will tell.