General Discussion
@monty - it's far from free and the management structure and policies are killing the service. Interesting reads:- http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/583499/NHS-England-costs-YOU-5-000-a-year-and-the-burden-on-taxpayers-is-only-going-to-rise http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/04/health-tourists-cost-uk-taxpayers-nearly-6billion-in-eight-years/ ...
In my opinion the local councils use the pay and display machines on the basis that there is more chance of being able to make more money from people who overstay. More so in a location where people are enjoying themselves on holiday and getting back to the car on time is not their first priority. I would say that they were losing money because people who were leaving were offering their ...
@Diana Mond - the issue of the drunks was serious enough to have the prohibition notices errected, even if they are not enforced. The negative posts, as you call them, are people who feel strongly about Dawlish and need to voice their opinions as to the poor way Dawlish is being treated by its elected officials. Dawlish.com is a positive forum that enable ALL participants to air their ...
Takings are down, as Margaret Swift has said, because the air show used to bring a lot of revenue in for the town shops. When the yellow brick road, high street paving, was done the retailer's felt a large revenue hit from that and the consequence of less car parking by the shops for the future. The town has a permanent drinking club whose pride of young and old lounge around The Lawn drinking, ...
@Margaret Swift - you will more than likely get a comment back stating that it goes against some european law to give out the data.
@Diana Mond -'proposed to improve dawlish'....the track record. so far, is not an impressive one! You miss the point - the 'public consultation' questions were one sided with only where the play park would be located on The Lawn. The only place to say NO to the play park on The Lawn was in the comments section and these seem to have not been made public. This is unacceptable
The public consultation was a sham and unsupported/unrealistic statistics promoted to allow momentum on this waste of money project. What is required, is a public consultation that is run with a balanced content of questions that allow the resident's of Dawlish to say YES or NO to whether they wish to have an ADDITIONAL play park for Dawlish constructed in the heart of the town which will ...
So with the basic essential services literally non existent the town council is able to find over a £120,000 for a second play park to take up nearly a third of The Lawn's current space. All this, in my opinion, based on a public consultation that only asked where on The Lawn it should be placed. The only place to say NO to this ridiculous scheme was in the comments section of the questions and ...
CEO's salaries of these charities need to brought in line with other large organisations i.e. BBC, etc. Well under paid by current standards I would say.
