This is a hustings for all candidates standing in the town ward of Ottery Town Council. It’s the first time an election has been held in more years than anyone can remember. As far as I am aware all the candidates will be present except one.
Here it is ... https://www.exmouthjournal.co.uk/news/claire-wright-column-1-6010293?fbclid=IwAR33v0k6pZc2MiIj6xnBZN1UFUeLcyxZ2twLNsfpH_zlBslawVH_iJDtCZ4
Officers confirmed at the last Highways and Traffic Orders Committee (HATOC) on 12 March, that they have now commissioned a survey by contractor, Jacobs, to assess Four Elms Hill for a traffic survey. It had been thought possible to carry out this work as part of highways maintenance but the maintenance work has been delayed unfortunately. I first brought the issue to HATOC in November 2017 after residents complained about the number of accidents including a fatality in 2017. One of the problems is that inconsistent speed limit from 40mph from the Bowd to a 60mph through Four Elms Hill, [...]
My spotlight review into how unpaid carers are managing will be held in the summer. I successfully proposed the review (it took a few meetings for it to be agreed!) last September after doing some research which found that many may be struggling financially as well as with a lack of respite care. I am pleased to say that I have now been contacted by quite a few unpaid carers looking after friends and family who would like to take part. If you would like to take part in the review, which I will chair, please contact scrutiny@devon.gov.uk Thank you!
The East Devon Care at Home Service otherwise known as ‘rapid response’ is at present, “fully recruited”, Devon County Council senior officers confirmed at the most recent Health and Adult Care Scrutiny Committee meeting. Councillors at the meeting, which was held on Thursday 21 March, heard from senior officers that their long-standing efforts to recruit to a team that was around 17 per cent under staffed (sorry I don’t have the numbers) had been successful with the assistance of agency staff. The service has been under-staffed for a long time, which had resulted in me [...]
I get a right of reply in next week’s East Devon press. I will enjoy putting that together! Here’s Sir Hugo’s column… https://www.exmouthjournal.co.uk/news/east-devon-mp-sir-hugo-swire-column-1-5997739?fbclid=IwAR0ll7QGKAsHOOz-u4JOCB9QM2amyfX88ICnz4kmKYK8qdO35aJZNdItfhU
There has been a delay now for sometime in Devon on the implementation of fibre to the home broadband. This means individual connections from the fibre cables in the road to each house. A huge operation that was started by BT and in the past two years or so, operated by Gigaclear under the management of Connecting Devon and Somerset (Devon and Somerset County Councils). Unfortunately, the timetable has slipped last autumn, partly due to the collapse of Carillion (Gigaclear were partners with a Carillion subsidiary engineering company) and partly due to the enormity of the Devon operation[...]