January 2014:
https://sidmouthindependentnews.wordpress.com/2013/12/11/change-of-tack-at-eddc/

And here we are – 13 months later – reinventing the same wheel. Nothing has moved on except a bit of shingle has been shifted around at a cost of £100,000.

Why bring it up again when in January 2014 there was a similar call for similar photographs after an exhibition about the beach management issue?

Well, it’s getting close to district elections and Sidmouth’s majority party (Tory) council is hoping people don’t have memories as sharp as this owl and think they are being taken care of.