Author Archive for Alison Hernandez

Community Reporter for Shiphay with the Willows Volunteer Chairman of Friends of Kitson Park since November 2009 and local resident of Torbay pretty much since birth.

Alan and his motorcaravan
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Torquay Retirement: One Man and his Motorcaravan!

Are you coming up to retirement or ever wondered what you might get up to when you leave full-time employment?  Well how about taking up Alan’s hobby…build your own motor caravan!
Alan, a resident of Shiphay with the Willows and an active member of the community as an Executive of the Willows Community Association, has spent [...]

Pink shaded area is Shiphay with the Willows Ward
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Scotts Meadow: Timing is everything

Scotts Meadow is a piece of land off Riviera Way, Torquay and within the Shiphay with the Willows ward.  There is currently a proposal to build 200 homes on this site.  We all need a home somewhere, so is it a good idea to build here and at this time? 
Well, I love living in Shiphay with the Willows.  It [...]

Final stage of construction
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Kitson Park: One Year On

Friends,
At the end of November we held our second Annual General Meeting in the local pub.  I was really quite excited about it as it marked a milestone in our development but the turnout was abysmal, one resident came and one representative from Torbay Council.   Without these two people coming I think we could have [...]

Civic Mayor with Friends
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Kitson Park: A new beginning

Well thanks to everyone for their positive feedback on my first blog and taking the time to read about what is going on in Shiphay, Torquay it really makes it all worthwhile.
This blog is about how Kitson Park has had a new beginning.  Well, I wrote last time about how we installed some new play [...]

Kitson Park: how we became friends
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Kitson Park: how we became friends

Greetings all!
As this is my first post @TalkTorbay and first ever blog I thought I would start with how I got involved in the Friends of Kitson Park and use each of my posts to show you before and after shots of all of our hard work.
Well, Kitson Park (just off Cadewell Lane in Shiphay, Torquay) [...]