General Discussion
Y.Centre letter in Gazette
Check out page 8 in Dawlish Gazette (23.7.08).
Letter there about Youth Centre/Training Centre proposals.
Never trust civic journalism. Do you think the likes of Tom Scobie would report anything detrimental regarding ex council colleagues?
As far as Dawlish is concerned, journalistic investigation and integrity is severely lacking.
so what did the letter say? for or against? any reaction/reply to it? i know the paper is so pro-libdem and the respective councils but have they expressed any editorial stance? the history and political stance of the new journalist is a concern, but if it gets any more biased then sales will drop.
Bloody hell Roy/Viaduct has now become a Freelance Reporter on top of nursing,working with the homeless and whatever other garbage he spouts.At least he's stopped posting as Olive , i suppose this was due to having to put a dress on each time.
This is what is says;
"It is pleasing to see the start of construction of the new Dawlish Skate Park and read of the plans for a similar one in Teignmouth.
However, the plans for a new youth centre on Sandy Lane, Dawlish seem to have been hijacked by Devon County Council.
Hidden in the depths of the planning application currently being considered by Teignbridge Council is the provision of metal working and woodworking machinery, and the vocational training of "disaffected, unemployed and poorly educated young people". These young people are to be bused in from around Devon to receive training. So the youth centre has become a noisy training centre.
Devon County Council has conceded that some of these individuals may have criminal convictions, be drug addicts or alcoholics and they plan to bus them into a non-secure facility next to a children's play area and play school nursery!
To make matters worse, they are asking to open from 9am to 10pm for five days a week and Saturday mornings. All this in a residential and leisure area. I thought Shutterton had been identified for industrial use.
The outline permission for a lease and to fell another tree were all based on a centre for our youth, not a training centre for the disaffected of Devon.
There has been much consultation regarding better facilities for the young people of Dawlish but whether Dawlish needs or wants this kind of facility has not been publicly debated. They are trying to slip the change of use through without debate or consultation. So, when is a youth centre not a youth centre? Clearly when the council says so.
TDC is open to comments on the proposal and the application reference is 08/02603/MAJ.