Contributor's poem

Malcolm - a Seaton resident has commented in another part of the blog and included this poem which perhaps more people would like to see:

The council is rushing to change Seaton town

They want us to give up our tourism crown

Instead we’re to be a large housing estate

For the rest of East Devon, for that is our fate.

There won’t be the jobs for all of these folk

They’ll drive miles to work gushing carbon and smoke

And the site for these houses is tourism land

So the building of houses should be positively banned.

If the holiday village was refused change-of-use

Then they’d have to invest and abandon this ruse,

If they’re short of the cash or can’t reach a decision

Then they should be selling to those with more vision.

In a Dormitory Town things can get quite low

‘Cos the folks who will come will be ‘overflow’

They will fill up the Docs, the Dentist and Schools

and if we don’t speak up, then we’ll be the fools !