‘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
“Publicly owned toilets could soon become a thing of the past.” [Comment to VGS] . At the Annual Meeting of Sidmouth Town Council earlier this month, most of… Read More »What’s the future of public toilet provision in the Sid Valley?
“Earth’s growing fever has obvious repercussions for human health.” [Imagine: The Conversation] . A lot of the effects of climate change seem rather abstract, from “harming health, through… Read More »In sickness and in health: the effect of the climate on our everyday lives
The first coastal ‘tourist tax’ in the UK is set to be introduced in Dorset, targeting visitors to Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole from July 1st.… Read More »Should Devon charge a ‘tourist tax’? part two
“Diminishing public services, inadequate infrastructure, and housing which has become increasingly unaffordable resulting in hidden poverty and ageing communities.” [Rural Services Network] “The farming vote… Read More »Winning the rural/farming/countryside vote: ‘what the next government must do’