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Who Controls Dunbar?

Posted on May 21, 2013 by abbeylands

If you’ve ever visited Dunbar in the summer, you’ll know it is the resident gull population that is in control. Local Dunbar residents share their tight living spaces with a small but significant colony of nesting gulls, which in some previous years have bred rather too successfully.
Gulls are a nuisance, not so much because they [...]

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Response to Dunbar Traffic Regulation Order Proposals

Posted on May 16, 2013 by templar

I welcome that the council is consulting on these proposals.
I have made comprehensive comments on the specific consultation questions and expressed a range of concerns about the proposals – sketchy though they are – first outlined in the Cabinet paper dated 29 March 2011. I have annotated a dynamic map with additional commentary and thoughts here:
http://abbeylandsresidents.org.uk/wiki-map-dunbar-traffic-regulation-order/
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RESIDENTIAL PARKING FOR ABBEYLANDS: KEEP THE CUL DE SAC QUIET & SAFE

Posted on May 3, 2013 by abbeylands

[ June 17, 2013; ] [update: 70+ positive responses so far, never knew so many lived within just 100 yards!]

Petition to formalise residential parking and establish an attractive street scheme in the Abbeylands cul de sac.  We residents of South High Street and Abbeylands, Dunbar request that the long term car parking be retained in the cul de sac and [...]

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Abbey Church Dunbar: Listed building consent appeal rejected

Posted on April 11, 2013 by templar

Graeme Armet recently obtained planning permission to modify the Abbey Church Dunbar and convert it into a 5 bed-roomed home late in 2012, but it was a painful and tortuous process.  Yet receiving the planning permission turned out to be a pyrrhic victory as there was another more substantial hurdle to surmount, the refusal of [...]

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