Margaret Swift
@MC if I remember correctly, in the Council meeting last August the Mayor offered me his place on the already established town centre working group, which is convened and chaired by TDC. I accepted the kind offer as I wanted to be involved in the work but that group has not met since that time and indeed has not met since February or March last year.
I too voted in favour of awarding the grant to the carnival for many of the reasons stated on this thread. But additionally, I believe in giving everyone a last chance and this, for me, is the 'do or die' year. The Carnival has been awarded money towards the cost of running the carnival and now need to prove to the people of Dawlish and DTC that they can deliver a high quality product in a ...
I think we all need to remember that the expert opinion of the planning officer was that, despite all the objections, he was minded to approve the planning application for the Woodlouse. So..........we may well yet end up with that monstrosity being built on our lawn if the planning officer gets his own way...........and they usually do!!
Hi Lynne, the councillors were Mary Lowther and myself as we are two of the councillors for that ward. At the meeting in December, one of the local residents attended on behalf of all residents and did an excellent job explaining exactly what the problems were and how they affected people's lives. He held SWW and the EA to account very well and is keeping a watching brief to ensure they do as they ...
There she goes again, nothing useful to say!
Thanks for the update Lynne. It really does beggar belief that there now appears to be so little correlation between planning consent and what is actually built and provided. We really are going to need some strong district Councillors over the next few years who are fully prepared to stand up and speak out for Dawlish.
Let us all know what they say Lynne.
@Dorian , you are a disgrace to this site and a thoroughly disgusting person. I am eternally grateful you are not one of my supporters.
I will respond to BV's post simply to say that if I had been at the meeting I would have made the same comment as I did on this thread. I would have gone on to say that our country is littered with the dreadful mistakes made by planners and architects. My reference was mainly about my home city of Manchester, where the mistakes were particularly bad and are well documented, but other areas such as ...
Go back to my original post, I never used the word all! Ah, the nuances of language!
