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Parking Yes, it’s the ‘P’ word again, perennial and circular in argument. The larger than usual number of visitors has made this year’s parking problems worse than ever. You will have seen all sorts of prognostications in the press and on email because everyone knows how to deal with the problem; it’s simple, you just do what I say and then everything will be sorted out. Except it won’t. The parish council has spent more hours agonising over parking than probably anything else, it has sent out questionnaires and surveys, it has had meetings, it has employed experts from Traffic Control, it has had a hot-line to The Almighty but none of these actions has produced a fool-proof plan – because there isn’t one. What suits one person is an affront to another, what sorts-out the congestion in one area of the village causes a major problem in another area. There just isn’t enough parking space for the very busy summer season for all sorts of reasons, and there you are. It is immensely annoying when people out of the village tell the world at large that they can park free in Kingswear, but they do. It is immensely annoying that you cannot park in the place you normally park in for those 6-8 weeks, but none of us actually owns the road, so unfortunately others have a right to park in ‘our’ places. (As my wife very frequently reminds me!) Grrrrr. Let’s do our best to realise that


we are fortunate to live in this lovely place all year and the stray parkers are only here for their


holidays. They have a right to enjoy the village just as much as we do I suppose. (Fixed, rigid smile) I have just spoken to Lynne


Maurer, chair of the parish council and she tells me that a working group has been set up for some time now, studying the parking problems. This group is to report back to South Hams District Council in early September. Lynne also wanted me to clarify that the problems we have been talking about are for Kingswear village. Hillhead and Greenway are also part of the Kingswear parish but do not have the same severity of problems. Quite a few cars are parked at Hillhead for people to take the bus down to the village and to Dartmouth, but at least there is a little more space to park at Hillhead since the more modern houses have drives and often garages and are a little more in control of their own destiny.


Other Council Matters The response towards the Covid crisis has been very capably co- ordinated by the council which has managed 70 volunteers no less; these good folk have been doing all the shopping for people who are shielded, which has made many lives more bearable under the difficult circumstances. The council has had to wade through mounds and mounds of Government advice and instruction to keep the wheels on the cart; it has been silently busy on our behalf.


Jubilee Park Many in the village will remember the Little families who all lived


The Kingswear Almshouses. - time for renovation


Local residents or walkers along this part of the South Devon Coast Path in Beacon Road, Kingswear, will have noticed the sad external appearance of our listed 19th


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Century almshouse. In addition to the poor decorative state, a glimpse upwards beneath the 1840 build-date plaque will reveal sinister signs of outward bowing of the outer wall. The time has come for external renovation.


The history of this almshouse dates back to 1840 when Sarah Roope (of well-known Dartmouth and Kingswear stock) took over and built what became “The Trust House”. Her intention was to house “aged or infirm paupers…aged tradesmen incapacitated from work, and their wives…legally settled in Kingswear”. The “perpetual curate” of Kingswear was in overall charge


here for 70-80 years, especially the redoubtable Reg who has left us such great written memories of Kingswear during WW2. Their grandson has asked to put a bench in their memory in Jubilee Park and this will soon appear. Many will also remember the cannon on its trunnion which used to be on the fish quay; the cannon has now been renovated, the wood re-varnished, and will appear in the park in due course. Unfortunately, the problem of


litter has been great recently in the park; someone had a birthday celebration recently and left with all their party rubbish littering the place horribly. This is just not fair and Lynne is about to put up a notice pointing out that this is a community resource and the community needs to be responsible for it. The council has cleared an area to the left of the steps in the park so that the boats can be moved further back, giving more room for activities.


Cemetery Another notice is having to be put in the cemetery because people have been exercising their dogs in there and the residents of the lodge have had to pick up excrement after these dogs. This is very clearly not fair on a number of levels. So from now on it is strictly dogs on leads only and if this doesn’t work dogs will be banned from the cemetery altogether. This is up to the dog owners being responsible. You have been told pooch-owners.


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