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You have to remember that a quarter of your council tax goes to pay pensions of council employees in addition Teignbridge is on record to reduce black bin collections from two weekly to three weekly.  Council tax going up by likely 4.99% again and services going down.

That makes £4,000,000 extra paid in during the last 5 years that's were our money goes, Gordon Brown and Ed Balls killed final salary schemes when they robbed them of millions but all the time civil service, Council employees and NHS workers pensions are gold plated.

I wonder what Farm Developments Ltd will make of this decision.

If it is not taken up it can become another block of flats for Teign Housing just like the ones across the road.

Lynne you would need to look at the accounts for each of the years following to find if a payment was made, as to the road I believe this was a farm track and not a public road.

The whole thing is another DCC mess up, when the cycle path was put in along the A379 that stopped there being enough space for traffic lights at the junction of Elm Grove Road and the A379. I have always thought that in this day and age of computers that a set of three way lights with pedestrian option for all traffic at stop in all directions could be put in. That would allow the removal of the ...

Excellent submittion but will TDC hide behind "but the goverment have told us to build this number" as per usual.

In addition to the wholesale destruction of farm land most of it grade 1 there will be the unrelenting pressure to build a by pass around Starcross and Kenton taking away yet more farmland and in the process possibly releasing yet more land for housing development. I also think it is about time that the goverment put into law that councils can set by law the percentage of affordable for each and ...

Or it will change to a block of flats and be counted as affordable or part rent part buy. That's what happened on the Redrow site.

1263 the reserves are mainly held for protection of the pension fund. Teignbridge accounts showed I think three years ago that they managed to find an extra 1 million pounds to pay into the staff pension fund, this was at a time when they were closing toilets and cutting services.

Yes not bad council tax up £8 a month, pension up £12 a month so £4 left for inflation increases.   What happened to the extra revenue due from all the extra houses, oh sorry forgot thats to top up pension and bonuses as they have all had a hard year working from home.

On the other hand how much would it cost if they did not use the Wavewalker, and how long would it take.

I have just had to pay £150 before I have even seen the dentist as a private patient. Seems they are all on the same now.

@Lynne sorry but 13 people costing 1.3 million pounds economies can be made locally, and remember thats only tdc what about dcc

@Lynne your comments on stockton and gatehouse hill traffic using carhaix is exactly the reason that secmaton lane was closed off to vehicle traffic, and as an aside remember that it takes on average 10 lorry movements to build a house thats 10 in and 10 out. so for 484 houses at gatehouse thats a total of of 9680 lorry movements during the building either along elm grove road or carhaix way.  ...

Think about the train driver who is probably traumatised and may lose his job.

According to the letter in the Gazette this week it was due to health reasons.

@Margaret Swift better for wind farms to be at sea than all over our country side.

Signs posted in sandy lane recycling states that if you leave recycling outside of the container (because its full) then this will be treated as fly tipping and if caught you will be prosecuted. It states that you should take it to another recycling point and also phone the council to report that the container is full. Why not ask the council employee who collects the money from the parking ...

Employers have to reconcile their deductions and payments made to HMRC when they submit end of the year returns. It is HMRC that posts these figures to the employee account, not the persons employer.

Been taking them for 11 years ever since had stents put in, no problems except that I suffered from a lack of energy. Did a lot of research and found out that statins deplete the body of the enzyme q10. With age the body produces less anyway so I take co-enzyme q10 100mg capsules every morning and have not had any problems. I did clear it with my gp and he showed interest in the research and ...

Thanks for that, I was thinking of switching to EE as the Vodafone signal in a lot of Dawlish is terrible and in my home I have to rely on a Vodafone sure signal piece of kit.. Seems that the area has expanded on housing but not in mobile infrastructure, that seems to be a common theme with all utilities in this area.

Wasn’t Exminster set at 35% affordable and did I not read recently that the developer “Bovis” had agreed with TDC that it would now be 10%. That’s Bovis of the famed Facebook site Bovis Homes Victims Group. A group made up of over 1000 people complaining about the shoddy houses that Bovis have built. Have a look at the following link ...

Chance that there are going to be no buses as the Exeter drivers have voted to strike as they are upset at relocation of the depot to matford.

@UPWITHIT Are you able to post a link to the Covenant for the Manor please.

@Lynne sorry missed that bit in da2, i thought that littleleigh had been removed due to access issues, but it seems that it was refused because of the design being out of character with the area. that could be interesting when it comes to secmaton lane fronted by bungalows but with houses either side. oh well thats for 2017 or later.

So will we the residents of Teignbridge be forking out for a builders cockup, but then the residents of Carhaix must be grateful as they wont like it when they get heavy constuction traffic using Carhaix as a short cut to the Gatehouse building site because the link road will not be built first.

Having used the bus to Exeter for the last two days I can confirm that the buses are used extensively after 5:00 pm. The problem over low usage seems to revolve around the very poor timekeeping of the route 2 buses. In the trip up to Exeter on Monday I counted 7 buses coming the other way, they are supposed to be 20 minutes apart but at least 4 buses were only 5 minutes apart so one of the two ...

The goverment must arrange its own independent count of passenger numbers throughout the year, but I still say that CC must continue the existing timetable

It is the right of every citizen to inspect and question the accounts of the local council. From what I have seen so far TDC seems to be putting the rights of its employees before the needs of the residents of Teignbridge.

Wonder who owned the land, their very rich now.

Documents gone But i've got a copy or two. How long before I get contacted by the TDC gestapo telling me to destroy it.  Makes good reading

So still no link road first, the whole mess is just one big F*** up by TDC and there has to be a clear out of the incompetents that work there starting with the Chief Executive.

@Gary Taylor yes by all means listen to the residents and from what flo is saying they would prefer the lanherne route rather than a crossing of the exeter road. once across the road they still have no easy route to town and lights at this point will result in traffic backing up around idesleigh. the words from tdc about "alternative onroad options" frighten me, does this mean a cycle lane around ...

Yes Lynne we new it was coming just waiting to read the appeal documents and then we can start with our objections, after all this could be a way for others to avoid the link road.

Maybe that's why SWW have been after Strongvox to make so many changes to the drainage system up there besides the problems with the pumping station.

@Morty Vicker when have i said that i do not want houses built near me, what i want is for the right type of houses built with connections to infrastructure that is fit for purpose and following the original teignbridge local plan from a link road that is built first in order to stop heavy construction traffic driving through residential estates and past schools or down single track lanes.

According to SWW the problem was a blockage after cleaning the pumps at Shutterton pumping station and is not a broken pipe.

@leatash by my very approximate calculation and from knowledge gained in the building industry the profit before taxes for the gatehouse site will be between 15 and 18 million pounds, taxes of course can be legally avoided in many ways.

@Barbarawils68 the reason dcc & tdc allowed the building of the 3 and 10  in the lane was i believe a sweetner prior to the local plan being agreed. in 2004 a planning application for one additional house in secmaton rise was turned down by both tdc and dcc on the grounds that the lane could not support anymore traffic. this decision to refuse was upheald on appeal in bristol, when we used this ...