Cassandra
If you look at Michael Clayson's posting on Facebook in answer to people living next to the site, you will see that Network Rail has been told by the Government to get the trains running again; that is the priority, everything else is secondary.
People are being stopped from going down there for their own safety but also because there are properties which are empty and vulnerable. Unfortunately, there are some scum around who take advantage of peoples' misfortune for their own gain, as witness events in Somerset and Surrey. Also there has been the business of diesel being pilfered from the car park at Dawlish Warren. I for one would ...
Fair play to Dawlish Town Council, who opposed the application for a number of reasons. Will Mr. Stone now go & live on Benefit Street, take up employment as a Big Issue seller or will we have to make a collection to keep him living in the manner to which he has become accustomed?
What freebies? Haven't people paid in all their working lives i.e. tax, National Insurance and Graduated Pension (which is something most people tend to forget). Having administered people's wages for most of my working life I can testify that under PAYE people pay a great deal of money to the Government, and this is all before the imposition of indirect taxation. And better-off pensioners still ...
Thank you, Michael. I'm sure this will be of help to anyone in this situation. I'm just astounded to think that someone at the council didn't have the wit to relax the red tape just for a bit in what is surely a one-off emergency.
Is it true, as I have heard, that Teignbridge won't let families evacuated from the sea front take advantage of the offer from Lady's Mile to put them up in caravans for the duration because it contravenes their (Lady's Mile) planning regulations. If so, what a disgrace; can't they just forget about their bureaucracy and red tape for once in what is a very stressful situation for all concerned.
OF -did you really expect anything else? It's just a measure of the lengths people will go to to get their own way. I trust the council won't let him get away with it (ironic laugh).
Thanks for alerting us to this, OF. I was under the impression that things agreed 40 years ago are now somewhat out of date but it seems that Mr. Stone is still living in the past.
Have you given up that job working at the chip shop, Elvis?
Well Old Fart and Elvis Presley we must be quite near neighbours and yes, our power was off. When I rang the helpline the girl said there were no losses in the Dawlish area and to check the fuses, which we did. After a while a girl from Torquay rang and said there were a few properties off and they would send round an engineer. He got here about half an hour later but by that time we were back ...
