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That's a good point. You'd hope that the country park would be a somewhat more attractive proposition than that. I'm hoping for something akin to Stover or Parke - wishful thinking maybe, but we'll see.
Do the powers that be seriously expect visitors will travel to area just to sit in a field, instead of enjoying the beach? Strewth.
But the visitor centre will still have the effect of encouraging people to visit the Warren. Not that I am particularly bothered about that it's just that itstrikes me as being contradictory given what the SANGS is supposed to achieve. Actually I'm all for lots more educational visits to the whole Warren area - geography field trips, marine biology, oceanography, botony etc etc. I've ...
Lynne, the proposed visitor centre is intended to be an educational facility for visitors of all ages and from near and far. It's not going to be a tourist attraction in its own right. At least no-one seems able to name a controversial site for the SANGS in the area. I think everyone understands why the location can't be named until contracts are signed.
Oh thanks for the link to that table of birth dates and retirement age Lynne. I've just check and I'm actually a year better off that I thought I was. So it is 67 for me now, not 68. But you are also quite right, Lynne that this might be changed again. As it may well be for men too - after all their retirement age has also been pushed back beyond 65. By the time I retire, men and women ...
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This business of the SANGS being needed to draw people away from the Warren. Haven't I read somewhere lately that TDC plan on spending money on a new visitors centre at the Warren in order to er.........increase the number of visitors?
There are pros and cons for all four of the sites on the original Options list in the 2013 report, Morty. An open, attractive site, good access and parking would be some of the most important issues, as any new park will be expected to draw visitors away from the Dawlish Warren beaches. A 'diversion' of visitors is part of a strategy to counterbalance those residents living in the new ...
We will just have to wait and see as TDC are being so secretive. 106 money is still money for public use and the public should know up front what TDC plan for their area. But, naturally, Mrs C will disagree with anything I say!
Lynne is correct and has identified the reasons why the changes are inherently unfair, particularly the speeding up of the process. The vast majority of women caught up in this either worked part time, or not at all for periods, whilst they brought up children so did not build up an occupational pension in the same way a man did, but there is no recognition of this by the government.