Torquay Bed And Breakfast

posted by tracco on Dec 29

The new play area in Paignton next to the Apollo Cinema is to be given “village green status” this means it cannot be fenced off allowing dogs to run wild and mess everywhere like they do in the rest of Torbay.

Mr Handford (Torbay Civic Society Chairman) said the council estimated that if fencing was erected around the play park, maintenance costs would be halved because of the cost of cleaning up dog mess.

Surely dogs should be kept out of a childrens play areas anyway for a health and safety point of view?

Torbay Council seems to have gone on a spree recently of sticking notices on lamp posts about cleaning up after your dog!! – do they really think this will work?! – 90% of dog owners are irresponsible and do not care.

It is time to get wardens out on the street to catch these people and give them on the spot fines – nothing else will work.

The fines should also be raised much higher than they are now to be more effective.

posted by tracco on Dec 23

Torbay Council and Devon County Council are drawing up new plans for submission. They have been talking and planning for longer than I can remember!

It is so obvious that we need this new bypass – needed it 15 years ago. But still the talks go on and nothing happens. The cost gets higher and higher and funds become more impossible to find.

I cannot think of any other seaside town that has such an atrocious road into it. Visitors sit in an eternal queue. They must be totally frustrated by the time they reach Torbay.

The initial impact and arrival to a resort and make or break a holiday – and also put people permanently off coming back.