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4 Oct 2016

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Exmouth beach huts: to be or not to be? Depends whether you think the Development Management Committee makes decisions!

There is currently a planning application submitted – 16/2087/DEM to demolish the DJ’s Diner building on Exmouth Seafront.

At the DMC on 8th March Cllr Williamson (Littleham) proposed the condition (which was agreed) for the road move application that the cafe and the beach huts should not be demolished, nor any start to be made on the road, until there was a timescale, etc. for the water sports centre.

No timescale yet exists, yet the planning application seems to be completely ignoring this decision.

Unfortunately, the working that went in the final planning application is ( surprise, surprise) rather vague (approval document listed under application – 15/2487/MRES). However for those who were at the DMC, they are quite certain that the proposed condition was for no work – including demolition.

And of course there is also the issue of the town poll being ignored and EDDC ploughing ahead with leaving the area derelict regardless.

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  1. The road move application has a condition. So it seems to me that logic says that if they approve the demolition of DJ’s cafe, then the condition will not hold and the road cannot be moved – EDDC can have one or the other but not both.

    Of course, when have the current EDDC leadership let previous decisions, public commitments, or logic (or for that matter the law or public opinion) stop them when they have an agenda to pursue.

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