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For what it is worth it seems that the town councillors who sit on Dawlish Town Council's planning committee agree with you. When the first application was submitted earlier this year, to build four houses on this site, DTC's planning committee recommended refusal. Amongst the reasons they put forward were these: "Road safety concerns due to additional pressure on the existing constrained road ...
Oh, so the fact that cars and lorries regularly drive on the pavement past peoples' front doors to pass each other on the hill is not a concern to them then. One day we will get someone to monitor the air quality on the hill, especially when we have been subjected to lorries reversing up to access the building site.
Thing is, thing is, that Devon County Council Highways department don't see that the extra traffic generated by another 4 houses in the vicinity would cause any extra problems. Highway and traffic issues were not a reason why planning permission was refused for the previous application. If DCC Highways department don't think there will be any problem then what locals think is, and let's be ...
It still does nothing to address the highways problem which has been well-known and acknowledged by our council for about 50 years. There are people who are afraid to let their children walk to school on their own down Badlake Hill because of the situation with heavy goods lorries passing within inches on a road with no pavements in places and narrow access at the bottom of the hill. Sometimes you ...
Very recently a planning application to build four houses in the garden of 23 Badlake Hill was rejected because it would be overdevelopment of the site and would create loss of privacy to house nos 1-6 Church View, Weech Road. See https://dawlish.com/thread/details/47734 Another planning application has now been submitted, again for four houses, which claims to address and resolve the issues ...
Words of inspiration from Dawlish-based psychotherapist and life coach Jody Merelle. Just before I sat down to write these words I had a really uplifting call with a colleague. She was on her way home following a particularly stressful meeting and had stopped at a coffee shop Read more... ...
Father Christmas will be touring the town centre by tractor and stopping by the Bandstand in Dawlish between 11.15 and 12.00 this Saturday 18th December for photos and to hand out sweets. Merry Christmas!
Sunday afternoon we have a treat for the children Father Christmas will be visiting between 3pm and 4.30pm to deliver some presents. Come and join us for a drink and a mince pie and some family festive fun.
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