“How to level up the country” through a “double devolution to councils and communities” The Wigan Deal: how to continue providing services and serving the… Read More »“Beyond the Big Society?”

” Action and restructuring are what is needed. Our hope is for a greener, healthier and more balanced world, where nature is allowed to thrive… Read More »Climate change and biodiversity: nature-based solutions for Devon

Green certification schemes such as BREEAM and LEED are “meaningless” since they focus on reducing operational emissions while overlooking embodied carbon.  . One of the… Read More »Building in wood: building in low-carbon building materials

… ideas to heal the damage done to our land, oceans and climate . The five-part television series The Earthshot Prize: Repairing our Planet has… Read More »The Earthshot Prize

“Go with the Alternative Option which has emerged from the 6 month Pause which is a greater variation on the Preferred Option, where a high… Read More »Beach Management Plan: update on the pause process

Report urges governments to take urgent action, set more ambitious targets and building codes, and embed sustainability within planning systems. . There is the idea… Read More »‘Built for the environment’: building for the environment

“Britain has lost more of its natural biodiversity than almost anywhere else in western Europe, the most of all the G7 nations and more than many… Read More »COP15: trying to halt biodiversity loss

For the immediate: “Even if you are a bit short on cash, you can still eat healthy, you can just be smart and learn ways… Read More »A guide to eating better now … and for the future

“This application in effect takes the development of the site a step forward.” . It is now two years since the last public meeting about… Read More »Sidford Business Park: update: further planning application: comments in by 14 October

“We will simply not succeed in levelling up opportunity for regional and coastal towns unless people can rely on good and reliable transport links to… Read More »Access to good public transport

… from shops and banks to housing and leisure. . “Adaptive reuse is the process of repurposing buildings for viable new uses and modern functions,… Read More »Adaptive reuse in Sidmouth

The biggest CCS project in the world. It is a project in Western Australia. And apparently it’s a massive fail… . CCS looks very enticing:… Read More »Climate change: and the ‘magical thinking’ of carbon capture

“An influx of spending won’t change things overnight.” “The stark reality of the economic disadvantages of living in the South West.” A lack of affordable homes… Read More »Levelling up: the bigger picture in the South West

“It is part of a wider message about the ways in which Britain and the wider world might eventually emerge from its supply chain crisis… Read More »The supply chain crisis and the Devon economy

“If property is effectively being built to be acquired by wealthy speculators as assets and not residences, then housebuilding becomes a mocking pantomime, where property… Read More »How to reduce ‘house farming’ in the South West