Monthly Archives: December 2012

Vital amendments to the Government’s latest plans to weaken national planning policies, have been rejected by ministers.

The story below appeared in the Independent on Thursday 20 December….

The link to the story is here - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/viability-of-shale-gas-power-source-in-doubt-due-to-cost-8428145.html  ........................................................................

It is almost 3pm on Christmas Eve…...

It appears that the all-conservative EDDC cabinet is poised to vote to remove council tax discount on second homes.

Following in the wake of Plymouth City Council, South Hams District Council has now also abolished council tax discount on second homes.

The BBC story- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-20801174,  is below ..........................

All EDDC officers and councillors received the following message from Deputy Chief Executive, Richard Cohen, late this afternoon….........

Residents are asked to take a few minutes out from the busy Christmas and new year celebrations to donate some non-perishable food to Ottery St Mary’s food bank scheme.

Ottery parish churches are running the scheme which started earlier this year, along with many others across Devon and the country.

YET MORE flood alerts have been put in place for East Devon rivers for all day tomorrow.

GPs at Coleridge Medical Centre are “really worried” about being able to cope with a large increase in housing in the area.  That was the message from Dr Tim Cox, who attended Monday night’s Feniton Parish Council meeting.

A date not to be missed if you are interested in the issue of recording of meetings. 

You may remember that the previous overview and scrutiny meeting where this subject was on the agenda, was cancelled due to the bad weather last month.

Last night’s BBC Spotlight carried live a interview with Feniton Action Group’s chair, Dr John Withrington.

This is the biggest threat facing the East Devon countryside and developers are well aware of it.  EDDC is one of the almost three-quarters of councils who won’t have an up-to-date local plan in place by d-day, on 27 March 2013, when if a council doesn’t have an up-to-date local plan, it may be considered irrelevant.

Campaign group, frack-free Devon, has penned a letter to chancellor, George Osborne, in the hope to dissuade the him from his apparently determined path he is treading to allow mining for shale gas, across the UK.

The letter is pasted below…...................

The latest press release from EDDC is pasted below, which attempts to justify gagging the East Devon Business Forum scrutiny TAFF. Some might spot flaws in the argument .....................