Lynne's Posts

Yesterday's fixfest was well attended with over 40 fixes provided by highly skilled volunteer fixers. The organisers hope to do something similar again in the autumn.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/housing-benefit-axed-18-21-year-olds-dwp-damian-green_uk_58b99db8e4b0d2821b4dcc6e

more info here (and note there is something 'special' for those within two years of passing their driving test). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39118523

Someone contacted me earlier today expressing concern that Sandy Lane Playing fields would now be under threat of development given that Dawlish is to have a new country park. For info this is what I replied and what I understand the situation to be. The country park has to be an additional green space to that which already exists so it is no threat to Sandy Lane playing fields. Sandy Lane Playing ...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/20/bovis-to-pay-7m-to-compensate-customers-angry-at-poorly-built-homes

Okay .....so.....this is how I think this new park could be accessed on foot coming from the Dawlish end. Walk up to Sainsbury's then down through the new Redrow estate towards the Warren. At some point there should be a place for pedestrians to cross over Shutterton Lane to/from the Redrow estate to/from the new countryside park. But I agree that there should be a walkway of some kind running ...

BTW - there was a planning meeting at TDC last Tuesday where the planning application for 409 or so new dwellings at Gatehouse Farm was passed. This development should have had a 25% Affordable Housing requirement. It was agreed however that it should have 17.5%. And of course the developers can always go back to TDC planners sometime in the future and plead that even that amount should be reduced ...

Any info on what form of transport (private or public) these commuters use?

http://news.sky.com/story/brexit-bill-how-did-your-mp-vote-on-the-article-50-trigger-10752756

Well I guess there might be given the English climate. (What lovely weather we have today.......)

This building work (you can't miss it if you are travelling on the A379) is to build a car park for the new community park (SANGS). I thought to put this message on here given as the following remark was overheard in Sainsbury's this morning "Do you know what that building work is all about up by St. Mary's cottages, right by the main road?" "Yes, it's another lot of houses being built". IT IS ...

This is what it says at section 3.9 of the Devon Home Choice policy document 3.9 No local connection to Devon 3.9.1 Applicants who have no local connection to Devon will have their application placed in either: - The Low housing need band (D) if they are assessed as having a housing need (whether this be high, medium or low need), or - The No housing need band (E) if they are assessed as having no ...

I've held off from posting about this before as I didn't want to add to the anti cycle lobby but............I was in town yesterday and how narrow the main road now is immediately outside Bailey's (can't remember its new name) where the coaches drop off and pick up was very apparent. How a bus or a lorry or other large vehicle will be able to go along that road if a coach or coaches are parked up ...

And it seems that the issue of public money and the royal family is not only an issue that has gone through my mind. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2942401/Majority-Britons-want-stop-funding-minor-royals-Prince-Andrew-Sophie-Wessex.html

Apologies - yes I know i'm banging on about state pensions again but when you get to a certain age boring things like pensions suddenly become very important. Take a look at this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38654321 I had no idea that a grandparent, aged below his or her state pension age, who looks after a grandchild could claim this caring towards their state pension amount. So if you ...

http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/stokes-greengrocers-to-close-shops-in-exeter-dawlish-and-paignton/story-30055726-detail/story.html

@Paul - no worries then about this exercise starting ww3.

Yes I've read about liable land having to be registered by the Church (by 2013 I think it was) but..........some mess up in the law means that even if the Cof E didn't meet that 2013 deadline then land not registered by that time can still be liable. This explains why I have heard that those buying houses are now strongly advised by their solicitor to take out chancel repair liability insurance. ...

*!**!!!*** newspapers! This was decided at the August meeting not the September one. Planning reference 16/01246/MAJ If anyone is interested in what the committee decided and why, this link should take you to the minutes of the August TDC Planning Committee http://docimages.teignbridge.gov.uk/Planning/lg/GFPlanningDocuments.page

And today Rick Parfitt of Status Quo has died as well.

This link should take you to the new timetable https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and-offers/south-west/exeter-area-timetable-changes-from-3-january-2017 and this to the petition concerning the new timetable. https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/don-t-stop-the-2-bus-from-hopping-maintain-the-2-bus-service-at-three-buses-an-hour

This will represent a 1.4% pay rise. It will take effect from April 2017. Earlier this year they had a pay rise of 1.3%. Two years ago they had a 10% pay hike. Public sector workers such as nurses, firefighters, teachers, police have been limited to 1% pay rises for four years.

Can we agree that both NATO (formed late 1940s) and the embyronic EU (Common Market formed mid/late 1950s * between France, West Germany, Italy and the Benelux countries) were created as a reaction to WWII and its aftermath. * but note that  i n 1951, the Treaty of Paris was signed, creating the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). This was an international community based on supranationalism ...

http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/save-our-trains-sign-the-petition-in-bid-to-save-vital-train-services/story-29945824-detail/story.html

Click on this link for info on the Devon Home Choice scheme http://www.devonhomechoice.com/Devon_Home_Choice/CFEFaq.jsp?selectedMenu=Faq I'm genuinely interested to know how the Home Choice scheme is allegedly responsible for Dawlish having residents who have substance addiction problems. Can someone tell me please.

The link is working now. www.private-eye.co.uk/councillors If you click on the map for TDC you will see that it shows the following: Reminders for overdue council tax payments were sent to 3 councillors 1 x councillor (a Conservative) was summonsed for an outstanding payment of £1,259.57. TDC will not divulge the name of this councilllor. The councillor concerned paid up after the court case.

In the same (overheard by me) conversation  one of the women concerned stated that at 63 her husband could now claim pension credit. Well yes, so he might but that doesn't mean that it is at age 63 that all can do so because again who becomes eligible for what and when depends on date of birth and how that ties in with when women of the same date of birth reach their state pension age. Hope the ...

This is all tied in with the state pension age and, more to the point, the state pension age for women. I know I've another thread going on about the rising state pension age for women (see https://www.dawlish.com/thread/details/45135 ) but I thought to start a separate thread about the bus pass issue because of what I overheard in a Dawlish shop the other day. One woman to another woman "Oh my ...

http://www.johnmason.com/news/new-zealand-government-receives-record-high-emigration-enquiries/

This is what Dawlish Town Council has requested of TDC RESOLVED to inform the Planning Authority that Dawlish Town Council requests that the two telephone boxes (payphone kiosks) at Ashcombe and St Mary Cottages be retained.

https://www.gwr.com/travel-updates/christmas-2016

I have no idea why they said that but the outcome is that whilst the result of the referendum is not legally binding, politically it is.

If you look at my post I said that new trade deals may carry with them a clause allowing movement of people into this country not that any new trade deals would have to do so.

@ 'Ol Lady Biker If fodh = friends of dawlish hospital then what you have been told is incorrect.

Does anyone know if anything of a similar structure has been placed at the Dawlish Warren end?

I had a much scaled down version of this in mind. http://www.tidallagoonpower.com/projects/swansea-bay/

Okay, so....... in June of this year a representative of SWW addressed the town council about the Secmaton Lane sewerage issue. I was in the public gallery listening to it all. I have just looked at the minutes of that meeting and there is no record of what he said only that he was there and that he addressed the town councillors before the meeting of the full council officially started. I seem to ...

Should I go off topic and post something about the correct use of the apostrophe?

Only walked through Mules park - had no idea about the other bits of this lovely open area until I got home and looked it up. Next time I am in T'mouth I shall take a look at the other bits. Have already printed off the map given on that link above and it has been put by the front door so that it is to hand for me to take with me when I go to T'mouth next.

Well I certainly wouldn't walk  along Shutterton Lane.