General Election Hustings in Sidmouth: Wednesday 19th June 7pm at All Saints’ Church. Voters invited to submit questions beforehand online or at the door. .… Read More »Hustings 2024

How should we be talking about the environment?  . By now it’s become very clear that the perils of greenwashing have spread far and wide – and… Read More »From ‘greenwashing’ to ‘greenhushing’

A selection from the Transition Town movement’s monthly latest… . This month’s highlights:   What to do about the Election? Elections campaigns can divide our communities, but it can… Read More »June news from Transition Together

Voters will have the opportunity to quiz candidates at the upcoming hustings event in Sidmouth on Wednesday 19th June – with more information to follow…… Read More »Winning the rural/farming/countryside vote: engaging the candidates

‘The powers of connection and circularity’ With excepts from this month’s thoughtful and intelligent newsletter from the Design Council: . …. Design for Planet –… Read More »The Design Council’s June newsletter – ‘Design for Planet’

“Exeter needs to do something about its traffic problem.” [Prof Richard Betts, Exeter University] . The county town has got a problem with traffic –… Read More »BREAKING: Exeter LTN scrapped

“Adversely impacting on the visibility of and access to and around adjacent public buildings.” [District Council’s planning committee] . There has been quite a lot… Read More »BREAKING: application for public toilet block at Sidmouth Swimming Pool REFUSED

“Making the most the inherent character of this brick built Victorian former steam laundry.” [Stags estate agents] . Back in January, there was some very… Read More »Laundry Lane: new housing in old buildings: ‘an imaginative redevelopment’

“Rather than seeing the turbulence of the post-Covid working world as something to sulk about, we should see it is as an opportunity to innovate… Read More »Getting flexible with work

“… the imperative of collaborating in surmounting food insecurity, environmental degradation, and political polarization.” [ Think Global Health]   . Of late, there have been several… Read More »Collaborating on the environment locally

Concerns voiced afresh on social media . Late last year, the restaurateur Rockfish withdrew their application for the Drill Hall – one of the ‘outstanding issues’ being… Read More »Drill Hall: of public shelters and public toilets

From festivals… to ‘one of the best places to live’… Sidmouth is now ‘a hotspot for entrepreneurship’. . There’s quite a buzz in Sidmouth –… Read More »Sidmouth is buzzing

“Coastal towns including Sidmouth are among the fastest growing areas for UK microbusinesses.” [This is Money – from the GoDaddy’s Venture Forward report] . There… Read More »Sidmouth ‘a hotspot for entrepreneurship’

Councillor Kevin Walker “These are important roles as it is essential that the Town Council remains connected to the many different organisations in the Sid… Read More »Vision Group for Sidmouth welcomes its Town Council representative

“A golden opportunity to provide accommodation, facilities for the town, jobs and goodness knows what else besides.” [Our Belper Mills campaign] Spaces owned by local… Read More »No trouble at Mill: repurposing abandoned buildings into social housing