It is possible to produce good quality social housing – which also ticks all the green boxes – as featured on these news pages: The… Read More »The energy-saving, social housing revolution > Passivhaus wins architecture prize
Climate Activists have been very much in evidence today: Extinction Rebellion: Arrests at Sydney and Amsterdam protests And not everyone is enamoured of its tactics:… Read More »How easy is it to live ‘off-grid’?
Last week, the Town Council’s new environment committee met up for the second time, and agreed to its new guiding policy: Sidmouth Environment Policy .… Read More »Councils need more power and funding to meet national climate targets
There won’t be a Judicial Review of the decision to grant planning permission – but other options are being considered by campaigners: Sidford Business Park:… Read More »Sidford Business Park: Update 36: public meeting Tues 15th October
Radio 4 Extra has been replaying Richard Mabey’s programme on the ash tree: Yew, Sycamore And Ash—Series 2 . It is a beautiful tree: Under… Read More »Tackling ash-dieback in Devon
One of the most popular reads in academia is Garrett Hardin’s ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’: The tragedy of the commons is a situation in a shared-resource… Read More »Governing the Commons: how communities can look after their environment
Putting up car park charges is pretty heavy-handed: Raising car parking charges is about raising revenue – not about reducing emissions Raising car parking charges… Read More »Raising car parking charges: “Given the current state of the high street, this is not the time to put up prices.”
Remember the Sidmouth fatberg as reported across the globe earlier in the year: Sidmouth has a fatberg The Adventures of Fatberg BBC’s Blue Planet visits… Read More »The Sidmouth fatberg: stop flushing wetwipes down the toilet!
Earlier this evening, Channel Four news lead with a startling piece: Extinction Britain: Wildlife survey exposes shocking decline in animals . Indeed, across the media,… Read More »Extinction Britain: State of Nature report 2019
At last night’s District Council cabinet meeting, it was agreed to transfer responsibility for various land and property assets from EDDC to Beer Parish Council:… Read More »Transferring assets to parish and town councils
The University of Exeter has just published some very positive research: New research finds coastal living linked with better mental health . Here it is… Read More »Living by the coast is good for you
The Devon Maritime Forum will be putting on a special conference looking at Flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCERM). Interestingly, the photo (taken by… Read More »South West coastal change: challenges for Sidmouth
The Devon county council has launched a scheme to help young people and young families: . The major new plan to help give Devon’s children… Read More »Giving young families the right support: in Devon and in Italy…
The development at Knowle seems to have stalled: Our Proposals | PegasusLife Knowle relocation project: ‘questions hang in the air’ . The Architects’ Journal… Read More »Knowle relocation project: BREAKING: PegasusLife merger
Earlier in the summer, the District Council announced plans: District Council votes for charging points in its car parks . As a correspondent for the… Read More »Charging points in car parks: but where is the clean reliable electricity?