General Discussion

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.

Well....do YOU want a Youth/Community Centre aimed at the local population or a Youth Training Centre aimed at the disaffected youth of the whole of Teignbridge?

If YOU want a youth/community centre aimed in general for the people and youth of Dawlish and not a youth training centre for the disaffected youth of the whole of Teignmbridge then YOU had better make that known.

FAST!