Kevin Pyne, of Lake Street, Dartmouth, writes:

We are under attack in every direction – be it houses all over the hills from Dartmouth to Stoke Fleaming; a proposed mega marina; the closure of our hospital; and a district council that has forgotten our parks and land are held in common by us and not to be filched.

Our little town is a pretty place

But it’s under attack

In the great British grab all

You can in the name of greed

And profit race

 

They want to build houses

All over its hills

And ram in piles for a mega

Marina  

That will ruin the salmon

Run and the river all about

With deep silt it will fill

 

After which they want to tear

Down our hospital

And fill the quayside with flats

And march all the elderly

Folk into doctor convenient

Soulless concentration trap

 

District council want to charge

Us for that which we already

Own

While doing little to help

Yet make from our festivals

Nothing but profit alone

 

More over sadly there are no

Ships coming to our beautful

River so as we might call it a port 

And it is slowly changing into

A grab all you can kind of

Dying a death holiday resort

 

Oh people who live here

wake up

Both old families and new 

And fight back against

This greed and crude

Attempts at divisive

Division please wont you

 

Because this is one of the last

Bastions of tranquilly today

And if we don’t watch out those

Who are wealthy and greedy

Will in the name of profit

Destroy that which we love

Completely for ever and always.