General Discussion
The Lawn
Come on Dawlish when are we going to use the lawn like it should be, the ground behind the bandstand (is it one) towards the bowling needs to be a kiddies play park, its so obvious it hyrts me to write it. I intend to start a campaign via the gazette to get this done. All the other towns around do this type of thing, just look at tiegnmouth and the den its great for the locals and visiters, are you with me or agin me!
I think the lawn and bandstand needs to be cleaned up and maintained like a proper park, but I do not see the need to another play park we already have 3, and the lawn is used my many events and fetes and would be nice to be used for more, so lets go green with the lawn and make it a glorious place for picnics etc.
Oh yes keep the kids playpark up the manor out of sight out of mind.
More folk would make use of one on the lawn parents taking their kids shopping, also the holiday makers would make good use of it, half the time they are unaware the manor playpark exists.
There is room for a playpark bowls picnics and community events.
I for one support Gubba
For too long this town has centred around the elderly
Wake up Dawlish change is good
Oh yes keep the kids playpark up the manor out of sight out of mind.
More folk would make use of one on the lawn parents taking their kids shopping, also the holiday makers would make good use of it, half the time they are unaware the manor playpark exists.
There is room for a playpark bowls picnics and community events.
I for one support Gubba
For too long this town has centred around the elderly
Wake up Dawlish change is good
PERFECT GUBA GOT (GEE) what ever your name. Lets make it even worse by having the drunk teenagers on the kids playpark recking it.
Why build something when kids of today just burn it down again, they have no respect. Their was a perfect one at the manor, but they torched it.
Keep the lawn as it is.
My name is guba gee an ancient jedi name for peace. I take anons view seriously i see that we have three play parks in dawlish but take a look at our neighbours in tiegnmouth on the den and look how many people use it. Parents, kids, grandparents, vistitors and all townsfoke who want tiegnmouth to feel great and look good, i'm sure anon wants that for dawlish too. Its a little victorian and shortsited to think that only young paople use such a facility, its the community, and the community spirit that something like this brings is needed, wanted, and extremly usefull. i really think it would benifit dawlish and not only for use dawlish folk but for the wider community and may make dawlish really nice again. Please support this idea and take it for its real worth, and not knock it or knock the lovely young people of dawlish
Hi anon come on mate why is it such a bad idea for you? is it that your just afraid of change, it can be a really good thing and used as a catalyst for regeneration, and overwhelming good feeling, plaese let the people of dawlish know why your so agaist making our little town great.
Agree that there should be a playground on the Lawn.
Pity that it is aping Teignmouth quite so lamely, but their concept is so good that it deserves emulating.
I saw the wrecked playground 2 weeks ago, and whilst I think that the perp should be beaten up, I also thought that the melted plastics looked quite artistic - in a Dali kind of way. Not that this is much consolation to the kids affected.
Really sad how people complain about what is right and wrong with their local area on a site such as this.
Dawlish could be an excellent place for all sorts of things, but it has been let down badly by people who are only interested in their own self esteem,-----------Councillors--------.
Go to the Manor Council offices and give them grief, don't nag each other.
Keep the lawn as it is? keep Dawlish as it is? We are in the 21st centuary, maybe just maybe if society gives young kids some respect & things to occupy their minds i.e skatebopard park play park situated in the middle of town etc they will not grow up to be drunken slobs as half the adult population in Dawlish is.I see more adults on the lawn drunk or out of it on drugs than youngsters.
Keep the lawn as it is? keep Dawlish as it is? We are in the 21st centuary, maybe just maybe if society gives young kids some respect & things to occupy their minds i.e skatebopard park play park situated in the middle of town etc they will not grow up to be drunken slobs as half the adult population in Dawlish is.I see more adults on the lawn drunk or out of it on drugs than youngsters.
Hi Gubba Gee may the force be with you.
Why dont you start a petition up for your excellent idea.
If sucessfull( I am sure it would be) and the powers to be ignore it the we know for certain that local democracy doesnt exist
They could apply for funding from the lottery board etc.
Hi,
I'm the editor of a soon-to-launch community magazine - www.welovedawlish.com and we are looking to help promote Dawlish and help return it to its full glory. We live in a lovely place and should be proud. I will be happy to have your petition on our website, and any other ideas to improve Dawlish. The website is not a competition to this site, which is fantastic for information, but is a site made to engender a more positive community spirit. We want contributions from the townsfolk, from pictures to stories and articles. Please email kelly@welovedawlish.com.
Hi,
I'm the editor of a soon-to-launch community magazine - www.welovedawlish.com and we are looking to help promote Dawlish and help return it to its full glory. We live in a lovely place and should be proud. I will be happy to have your petition on our website, and any other ideas to improve Dawlish. The website is not a competition to this site, which is fantastic for information, but is a site made to engender a more positive community spirit. We want contributions from the townsfolk, from pictures to stories and articles. Please email kelly@welovedawlish.com.
Listen Gubba Gee, get a chuffing life mate. The lawn is only there for one thing, the alcoholics and drug pushers, if you take it away from them where will then go? It is their haven and probably or almost definitely the only thing that they live for! Do you want to live with the knowledge that they have all had to become clean because they have nowhere to sit and get high? I don't think anyone wants that on their shoulders now do they? I mean how could you live with yourself! I think I'll start a campain for "keep the filth alive and high" if you don't calm down with all this kiddy rubbish....
peace dude
whoah I didnt say I agreed with you! Dont go jumping the gun it was not sarcasm in my text. dont forget I know who you are
I think it says a lot for this forum that it allows you to publicise ad nauseam a putative rival.
Given the free speech available here, and the likelihood of heavily-moderated pollyanna-ish propaganda on any site named 'ilovedawlish'.....I shall be staying right here.
I can imagine your rubbish topics...
"Dog shit - good for your roses"
"Seaweed - what a charming fragrance"
"Torching playgrounds - lets hug a vandal"
It's not competition. It's a voluntary web based magazine that will - hopefully - involve all townsfolk contributing. I gather you do not have a community spirit and will not be participating.
And we will be heavily promoting dawlish.com on it as well as any other good websites that promote Dawlish.
I see nothing wrong in being proud of where we live and trying to improve things for the people who live and visit here. Why are you so negative about improvement and community? I bet you don't still have an old black and white telly, and I'm assuming you have friends. Improvement and community.
And just to add - we wouldn't hug a vandal as that's not exactly going to improve things is it? And seaweed's better for the garden then dog mess and yes, does smell better. Not much better, but some.
you think you know me you ghoul. If your not with me your agin me, if you dont want the kids of dawlish to have something to be proud of then just say so and get yourself down there with the rest of the drunks ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha i'm laughing so much i hust cracked a rib
Great idea play area needs to be in area where seen. Took my small grandson up to Manor Park the other day and play area was occupied by year 6 potential hooligans and foul mouthed kids (girls) from Westcliffe School as well as older boys playing truant. No-one can see anything up there it is totally the wrong place. We refused to be intimated but many people with small children would be.
I walked through the lawn a few times while the kids were on half term no surprise where a lot of them were playing, the space between bandstand and bowling green. The excuse about the road being a problem is a load of rubbish.
Get that petition going Gubba Gee.
The council can apply for lottery funding money is not an excuse.
For some unknown reason they want Dawlish to stay in the dark ages, maybe they want to encourage young people to leave have the town full of retirement homes zimmer frames etc