Robert Vickery
@Margaret Swift "those of us who remain neutral". I don't see anything remotely neutral in your postings as a Town Councillor when you have challenged everything about the current proposals and got your airing before the scheme is put on public display. You were the only one of sixteen councillors who may not have supported the resolution to prepare a bid for Coastal Communities funding. I saw ...
@FredBassett My understanding is that the Local Government Act 1974 created the new 'three-tier' system of local government and the land transfers between authorities were without cost. i.e. the land was transferred free of charge by Act of Parliament. I remember that it took a couple of years for Town Clerks and Valuers to find the original deeds, if they had them, to complete the legal ...
@Mrs C i think you ignore the attraction of dawlish warren as a holiday destination where dogs can be with their families. if you deny dog owners the fun of running their dogs on defined parts of the beach, then the holiday-makers will go and stay elsewhere. the only problem is with people who ignore the signs.
"It has been stated that the whole idea of the Cultural Arts Pavillion is to attract more large events to the town". Well, I don't know where, but certainly not the claim of the proposers. One of the key points of the proposal is to encourage a range of events, performances, recitals, of varying scale so that the stage area is able to offer a greater range of entertainment than one large party ...
Today''s Gazette carries the story on, but why? The Birmingham man who negotiated the deal with Brunel to have a lower path was dead before the railway opened. That length of wall has collapsed on other occasions and Network Rail now want to make it as strong as the rest of it. They will also most likely extend the concrete footing that they put in some years ago from Red Rock almost to the ...
It is encouraging that some people see the better aspects of the town, so thanks for your comment. The Brook is under the management of Teignbridge District Council and they are limited in when they can work in it by (a) fish spawning and (b) anything disturbing the water quality that may affect the Bathing Water monitoring of the beaches that are regularly carried out. Last year's very wet ...
Could be they were having their AGM and all attendants were there?
@roberta sorry, a factual correction needed, i am afraid. the consultations managed by dcc showed a preference for removing the wall. the safety engineers insisted on a footpath to stop vehicles careering straight down a planted bank. although some people asked for echelon parking on the lawn side it was not workable without massive pruning of roots and tree surgery of overhanging branches of ...
Bang on the ball, Howard. The 'foyer' can be used creatively through video and other tele-media to illustrate such themes on the press of a button. It's there to offer visitors a taste of Dawlish and a better appreciation of the opportunities for their own enjoyment. When the performance stage (i.e.bandstand) is not in use the folding/sliding glazed front will allow it to be joined to the foyer ...
@Lynne As a grey voter I hoped you might have printed some of the supportive letters too. Come on Dawlish-don't-want-it, where is your invective to rival Prince Charles 'monstrous carbuncle'? Perhaps when Margaret Fountain finds her reading glasses she will find a decent modern structure that might even be more enjoyable than the present municipal barn that spoils the Lawn. One point of the ...
