“Levelling up requires coherent local institutions: strip back layers of local government and replace them with a single-tier system.” “Government plans will be a waste… Read More »Devolution and levelling-up: a single tier mayoral style system
South West Water to report back to Sidmouth Town Council by the end of January . After storms and sewage in our rivers and seas… Read More »Discharges of untreated sewage: SWW to answer questions
“Have they planned the increased infrastructure to go with all this – schools, hospitals, police, fire, utilities etc? Probably not on past record.” A new… Read More »New housing development forces reliance on cars
“Councillors should be paid less because they’re working from home.” “Several studies show productivity while working remotely from home is better than working in an… Read More »The continuing debates around Working From Home
“I strongly suspect that what comes out of a jet plane, or a monster cargo ship, should probably be of rather more concern.” . New… Read More »The debate around woodburners
“With such indifference at the helm of the RIBA awards process, what hope is there for seeing the rapid change demanded by the RIBA 2030… Read More »Sustainable buildings and the House of the Year
“You’d probably do better to buy a bit of re-constituted moorland vegetation in the form of some ‘plant based beef’.” . Dartmoor farmer Anton Coaker… Read More »An argument for farming livestock on uplands
“Repair really is becoming mainstream.” . The Restart Project has some good solid news pieces this month: Apple to make repair easier for consumers – but… Read More »Restart Project: December 2021 newsletter
Giving local people the power to set their own local development rules in suburban areas. . Back in the spring, a think tank put together… Read More »Giving residents the right to vote for more housing
“Farmers cannot wait for ‘guarantees’ from on high, but must look to the soil.” . We are indeed in times of great upheaval in the… Read More »Cutting carbon on the farm
“Proposed policy will require that all new residential and commercial development will deliver net-zero carbon emissions.” “An approach could be taken to require a higher… Read More »Draft Local Plan proposed zero-carbon housing
“We have invested more than £2billion to transform bathing water quality across the region, stopping over 200 raw sewage discharges and introducing modern sewage treatment… Read More »What are SWW’s longer-term plans for waste-water treatment in the Sid Valley?
Sidmouth – around 196 homes comprising a large allocation west of Woolbrook Road and a series of smaller scale allocations to the north and west… Read More »Draft Local Plan proposes new housing
“Given the enormous potential for community energy to help avert the devastation of climate change and alleviate the desperation of fuel poverty. We must push for… Read More »Local Electricity Bill: “key to unblocking community energy”
Reasons given for the refusal by the committee… . Ten days ago, it was reported that, after years of stating its intention, Aggregate Industries had… Read More »Plans for a 150-acre quarry near Ottery rejected