General Discussion
Rumour-mongers and doom-sayers do Dawlish no favours whatsoever. Please do not try to make this thread about me, roberta, it's about improving Dawlish. If the Portas 'bid' could have been put in place 12 months ago, I'm positive that the good folks who are making the effort now, would have done so then. In my opinion.
Scandalous!! That's a 3p per litre increase!
Rumours, rumours, rumours. It's a good job everyone hasn't got your 'it's a waste of time' attitude!! Good luck to Lynne and the Dawlish Transition group and everyone else determined to DO something to improve Dawlish.
To put neilh's figure into perspective, a single water sprinkler uses approx 1,100 litres of water per hour. Hosepipes would use more.
As you might guess, I'm more than happy to buy my cheaper petrol at Sainsburys, and earn Nectar points at the same time as I do my cheap shopping and do my recycling. Not happy that it's cheaper at other local-ish Sainsbury's (albeit you'd probably spend the savings in getting there and back if you're making a special journey), but that's how business works.
neilh, to be fair you had nothing to loo-se by asking the question.
I think only one person, Cassandra, had a pop at the present home owners. Hardly "various members" or "people", is it? Still you've put her right and so that's that. It does make you wonder where unfounded rumours like these start doesn't it?
Dare I mention that the first supermarket designed to meet the Passivhaus Standard, harvests rainwater to supply water for flushing the toilets?
When in Teignmouth on Sunday just gone, it was noticeable that loads of people were enjoying the seafront Adventure Golf, next to the busy Childrens Play Area, thats just in front of the very popular skateboard and scooter ramps. Three things there that are exactly what the centre of Dawlish needs to encourage families to come into town. A small boating lake, as has previously been proposed, is ...
Some cracking photos there plasticpeter!!! I saw the £8m pricetag in the paper and wondered who the owner was. Vodafone eh? I've spent many an unhappy hour at their HQ in Newbury. :-(
