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3 days ago

First of the year will be this Bank Hol. Monday 27th  May  10-3 pm.sellers from 8am  The regular Thursday car  boot  there commencing Thursday 6th June 3 - 6pm (sellers from 1pm)

Michael can you give us more details please - like just whereabouts exactly in "the Lanhearne area" is being looked at. Thanks. This is from the Dawlish Town Centre newsletter issued by the town centre manager. "Coach Parking The Chamber of Trade and the Town Council have been working with Teignbridge District Council to look at alternative options for coach parking. The Council has ...

The letter above was written two years ago. The article found in the link below, published yesterday, seems to confirm that what that letter of two years ago predicted would happen has proven to be correct. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/19/uk-spends-2bn-housing-homeless-short-term

Thank you Michael - let's hope the 'potentially' becomes an actuality.

I don't have a problem with private landlords per se. Not at all. If people have property they want to rent out and other people want to rent it then fine, I can't see a problem. One person is offering on the open market what another person wants. What someone does with their own money is entirely up to them. No, what sticks in my craw is when private sector landlords have rents paid partially ...

Dawlish Celebrates
6 days ago

@cheftallyrand - wheyhey! you're alive and, more to the point, kicking!  howya doin? drop me an e-mail (don't want to be accused of hijacking this thread). hope everything has worked out okay for you. L

Actually Huw there is something to tell - and that who is, who is the 'we' that were approached, and which London Borough Council was it that asked about the housing stock? I just wondered if it was Newham as apparently they sent out a round robin concerning relocating people from that borough about a year or so ago. This link gives more info ...

From the Insitute for Public Policy Research: "Government is turning the facts about housing benefit on their head IPPR North , housing , personal finances Author(s): Bill Davies Published date: 26 Mar 2013 Source: Guardian - Housing Network To take a leaf from Roald Dahl's The Twits , we must stand housing finance on its head. The government's attempts ...

and I'm just about to post some more on the HB thread 'n all DJ. Go careful with your eyes!

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