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Haven't they got more productive things to do with their time, how about cutting back overgrown grass verges bushes etc that the council no longer cares about or is that against climate change too?
CONCERNED residents from Teignmouth and Dawlish took part in an on-street sit-in for a second week running. Read more... https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/peacefully-getting-the-message-across-548159
This might be naive of me, but couldn't the local council tell all the developers concerned that unless they get their act together so that the road is joined up satisfactorily, they will not adopt the road or take on any responsibility for the maintenance thereof?
Seems it's not only Dawlish that has a new road/new housing development problem. Have just read an article concerning Cullompton. Very similar issue there as here in Dawlish with the Gatehouse/Secmaton/Persimmon housing development and the Gatehouse Farm/Sainsbury Roundabout link road. Here's an extract from the article. As you can see, as with Dawlish, the site is divided into three parts- ...
Good info. Thanks webmaster.
Bumping this up
I have found a newspaper article from November 2019 concerning the potential flood/sea level circa 2050 in the Exe estuary area if sea levels continue to rise. The article shows that land to the west of Dawlish Warren (Secmaton/Langdon/Shutterton) at being at risk from rising sea levels., This area already has had new houses built, and is also where it is planned that even more new houses ...
Geoffrey Cox, who runs four highly rated and award-winning care homes in Devon, including Sefton Hall at Dawlish TRUST urgently needs to be repaired between the government and the care industry after the ‘scandalously wrong’ decision to discharge patients untested for Covid into care homes at the start of the pandemic. Read more... ...
A Dawlish woman who has just returned from six years living abroad has opened a tea room in memory of her mother. Owner Carley Holmes named the new venture after her mother who used to have a hairdressing salon in the town Read more... ...
Appeal has been lodged.