General Discussion
Dear Soul, you and I disagree about little - but in this case I think an excess of enthusiasm for your party cause is making you re-write history You blame the Independent Candidates for the Shutterton development - which none of us wanted, and yet the facts reveal that the vulnerability of Dawlish to this Developer led application was due to the Liberal Democrats, ironically enough. ...
News about the next service to remember a Dawlish serviceman who gave his life during World War One. A series of services are being held on the 100th anniversary of each death. Lieut. Colonel Richard Alexander Rooth will be remembered on Saturday 25th April St Gregory’s Church, commencing at 3pm Richard Rooth was a Londoner who married a Dawlish girl, Amy Cann of 5 Plantation ...
So this is the Lib Dem pitch it seems Parliament - vote for us, We were only 1% behind 5 years ago. Voting for anyone else is a waste of time and let's the Tories in Local - vote for us, ignore the Independent candidate who was only 1% behind 4 years ago. Vote for us who were 17% behind last time. We can win this time That's pretty inconsistent .....
Localism said people in local communities would decide on matters relating to development. In reality the Lib Dem government gave real power to the Developers (Presumption in favour of development) and the District Councils as the architects of Local Plans that over rule Neighbourhood Plans. Forgive me if I don't rely on fancy words over experience. It's also a crying shame that the ...
No Lynne - NPs were introduced as part of the Localism Act. Our experience in Dawlish was as described, and I learned not to trust the fine words. I don't know how far the latitude of the Act takes councillors. It may allow for more discussion but I think a planning lawyer would argue that any councillor on record as saying before the planning meeting "I would never vote for that" should be ...
The problem is that, as far as I know, this has not been tested in court we found with the Neighbourhood Plan #1 that all of the fine words counted for nothing, and in the face of over riding government policy "Localism" melted away - I wouldn't put any trust in anything related to that discredited Act.
I truly don't see how the two can be separated Lynne, as the purpose of a CPO would be to facilitate a planning decision. I would also expect the sequence of decision making to be Planning Application first, CPO only if a valid planning consent is in force. I speak with the insight of having attended training for councillors on the law relating to predetermining decisions, and from what we ...
I think it's in the nature of being an Independent that they vote on the case being put forward, not party lines And as we all know ( And I have complained several times) the district has consistently failed to put forward any detailed case for designation of land at Warren Farm as a coastal park/Sangs Knowing the character of the Independent candidates, I'm willing to trust their ...
I thought it might be interesting to view this through the mechanism favoured by the Lib Dems on their election leaflets The perpetual refrain is that only the Lib Dems can beat the Tories because last time they were only 523 votes behind. We are constantly told that anything else is a wasted vote So, what happened last time in Dawlish Central North East? There are 3 seats, one ...
Some good news This service will continue, with no changes to the route or timetable Dartline will take over the service as from May 5th.
