TEIGNBRIDGE Council has recieved a 'flood of representation' about the contentious omission site register.
The register is a wishlist of more than 80 sites suggested for development by developers and landowners.
Tony Page, head of policy and heritage at Teignbridge Council, said: 'There has been a extremely high response. Six thousand individual representations have been made about the sites.'
More than 200 individual letters of opposition have been recieved about the possibility of housing on considerably more than six hectares of land at Coombe Valley.
This week, Dawlish pressure group DARE hit back at one or two landowners after articles in other newspapers, claiming they wanted two bites of the cherry.
Land in the Secmaton Lane area is under scrutiny and DARE – Dawlish Against ruining Everything – claimed landowners had added sections of land in the omission sites to that already indicated in the first draft of the local plan.
DARE stressed: 'We understand that the landowners have a right to progress their land under the Local Plan.
'DARE will be exercising its democratic right to have its case against the development heard at the local plan public inquiry.'
But DARE said: 'It is also reasonable for Dawlish to shoulder a fair share of the extra housing to meet the queue on the housing list. It is not reasonable for Teignbridge to dump an entirely disproportionate allocation on Dawlish because other areas like Teignmouth or Newton Abbot mike create more of a fuss.
'DARE has calculated that the proper proportion of housing for dawlish might be in the region of 306 homes on new sites and a further 590 from windfall or already-approved developments. This would leave Teignbridge with the task of re-allocating 412 homes to new sites closer to areas of development.'
DARE said housing provision needed to be bal-anced against jobs and work journeys. According to local papers, Dawlish had nine job vacanciesat the start of this month, Exerter 119, Torbay 44 and Newton abbot and Heathfield 30. Of dawlish's nine, four wre at the specialist Butler Clinic.
Responses to alternative uses of Exminster sites, Milbury Farm, Matford Park Farm and Sentrys Farm have tallied at around 270.
Mr Page said: 'The overwhelming majority have been in opposition to the development of the sites.
'I thought that representation would be in four figures but my view is that it has attracted considerably more opposition than expected.'
Residential development at New Road, Inverteign school, Oak Hill and Buddleford farm is proposed for Teignmouth.
Responses from the public are in the hands of council officials following the extended eight week consultation exercise.
Mr Page said: 'We are currently in the process of analysing responses, by the end of the month there will be data from all the information that has been supplied.
'We have to look at all the reasons in order to give our members the full views of the public.'
The most unpopular proposal is for residential development on a 3.81 hectare area near St Michael's Road, Newton Abbot.
The proposed residential development at Headway Cross, Teignmouth, features in the three least popular suggestions.