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@Brooklyn Bridge - 26 06 18 10:59 - well said. If there is money still in the pot why not use it to replace the bandstand with something in keeping with its surrounding. I and others have mentioned a bandstand similar to the victorian styled one in Newton Abbot. Certainly a worthy addition to The Lawn compared to the play park only for under 8's, not to mention all the noise that will emenate ...
More info on the Sainsbury's S106 money. Back in 2011 Sainsbury's were at long last granted planning permission to build a supermarket at Shutterton. Planning application 08/01472/MAJ I have been looking at the S106 agreement concerning that planning permission. Part of that permission involved certain undertakings one of which concerns a £200,000 town centre contribution by Sainsbury's ...
Dear Councillors, There has been a lot of publicity with regard to locating a play park on the Dawlish Lawn. Some of your meetings have been conducted in closed sessions with very little transparency for the residents of Dawlish. You had conducted a survey that was in some way skewed in favour of this play park. First, it was decided that the play park be located between the bandstand and the ...
Re: Play park on Dawlish Lawn. Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:55 Cllr Martin Wrigley martin.wrigley@dawlish.gov.uk, Many thanks for your email. The Lawn Working group has been set up to look at the ideas about the Lawn and to see if we can find a consensus that the Town can endorse. No decisions have yet been made, and nothing is set in stone. We are currently working on a plan to ensure that we get a good ...
@Lynne , i read Bob Vickery’s letter and he is wrong, the survey did not produce a result in favour of a playpark next to the bowling green. the results were not clear cut at all, which is why a referendum on the issue is required.
Lynne, I did have an immediate reply to my email from Mr. Wrigley. I would post it here if only I could copy and past. Then you would read my email and his response.
@flo - the s106 money (ie money that, in this case Sainsbury's, hands over to the council) must be spent within a certain amount of time and on certain things only. This would have formed part of the planning consent. In this case the money has to be spent on things concerning improving the town centre (to offset the negative impact that Sainsbury's has had/might have had on the town centre ...
@Lynne - do you know who puts the restrictions on the money to spend - why does it have to be new and not improve facilities (eg the manor) and why can't it be spent when needed rather than a rush job where we all know it will be a bodge. I was a young mother once (not long ago cough) and I had no issue walking to the Manor or up to the Spider Park. Reduce space for the funfair, that would be ...
This letter from Bob Vickery was published in the Dawlish Gazette last month. Wrong Place For Play Park What chance have young children of Dawlish seeing a decent playground on The Lawn when voting members of the town council working party are mainly drawn from committed opponents? There's a proposal that it is placed by the tourist office, destroying the decorative ...
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