Just love the last sentence in this article from Exmouth Journal website! Councillors now totally redundant ( see also post below on Knowle redevelopment).
Exmouth Fun Park, in Queen’s Drive, is in the area East Devon District Council (EDDC) wants to redevelop with new buildings and leisure facilities – the so-called Splash.
Redevelopment of the fun park was not scheduled to occur until ‘phase three’ of this plan, earmarked for a later date.
However, EDDC now says it needs to fill in the park’s two boating lakes sooner, in order to create a site compound for contractors working on phase one of the redevelopment – the realignment of Queen’s Drive.
The plan to move the road is in a separate planning application, which was backed by a majority of members of Exmouth Town Council’s planning committee – although some said it was premature with detailed plans for the whole area not yet revealed.
However, considering an application to fill in the lakes, councillors voted to defer until legal action regarding the site had been concluded, and a public consultation could be carried out.
Councillor Maddy Chapman said: “I ask this be deferred until after the court cases, and until we know what’s happening, and we can go out to public consultation and we all know what we’re doing.”
Councillor Steve Gazzard said: “The whole idea, as I understand it, was to see what the people of Exmouth would like to see on that site.
“If you are going to fill in two ponds, I take it, rightly or wrongly, that a decision has already been made. I don’t like that.”
An EDDC spokesman said: “The applications considered by Exmouth Town Council have been submitted to ensure that the relocation of the road and car park can move forward at the earliest opportunity. We are currently going through a legal process with the fun park tenant and it would be inappropriate to make any further comment at this stage.”
EDDC planners will decide on permission.
East Devon Watch 
If, as EDDC say, that current legal processes make it inappropriate to comment, then for sure it must also be inappropriate to be pressing ahead with a planning application.
Who do they think they are kidding as once again, they bring their own council’s name into disrepute.
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It is a shame that Council members can appear so inept, I am sorry as they do try to do their job as councilors to the best of their ability, unfortunately they will not dissociate themselves from some individuals who will follow what ever EDDC decide, who are proving so autocratic not only with the excising businesses who have toiled for many years in the adverse sea front weather conditions.
Our councilors should read the Independent survey, from twice the number of people which numbered some 500+ in the EDDC consultation of 2012, but it can be taken that they will not bother to even read it, or will treat it with contempt, much as they are showing the public when they tell us that most people prefer these new idea’s, which have changed so much since 2013.
Our own Tory Council members must be made accountable to the whole of Exmouth for what is being spent on this latest plan, which not one of our local business people has a roll to play.
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Again after a second attempt i can not see my comment, Am i doing it properly
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