28 November 2016 Community Tree Nursery Friends of The Byes are now working to establish a community tree nursery
10 November 2016 VGS Futures Forum – comment on Knowle planning application – re the latest documents submitted by the developer
02 November 2016 The Vision Group has completed its ‘special interest group’ form
30 September 2016 BREAKING NEWS >>> Sidford business park > Fords planning application >>> 16/0669/MOUT >>> REFUSED after weeks and years of planning and campaigning
30 September 2016 Plans for Port Royal: anticipating a Regeneration Board >>> Scoping Report and Project Brief >>> 26 questions from the Vision Group
16 September 2016 VGS Futures Forum – comment on additions to Sidford planning application Today was the final day for submissions on the latest plans for the business park at Sidford
28 August 2016 Sidmouth becomes a Fairtrade Town Fairtrade status awarded
14 August 2016 Beach Management Plan: minutes from FF VGS meeting of 8th August called to discuss the issues among Sidmouth stakeholders before the full meeting of the BMP on 17th August
13 August 2016 Beach Management Plan: Local stakeholders welcome project consultant’s report >>> Options S4 and S4b “technically preferred”
31 July 2016 Knowle relocation project >>> Freedom of Information requests There are several on-going FOI requests outstanding with regard to the East Devon District Council’s plans to move from Sidmouth
31 July 2016 ProgrExit and the Transition Town movement There was no ‘official’ TT response to the EU referendum – but some positive ideas have emerged since…
03 July 2016 Beach Management Plan: fill in the feedback form by Tuesday 5th July to chose the best option to protect Sidmouth’s Eastern Beach “It is very important to get comments in: the public is in a very strong position to comment on which option it believes will deliver the best seafront for the town – and DEFRA will take that into consideration.”
30 June 2016 Plans for Port Royal and the Eastern Town >>> >>> architecture competition to re-imagine Port Royal >>> public invited to chose from a shortlist of five >>> >>> deadline Tuesday 12th July
14 June 2016 VGS Futures Forum – final comment on Knowle planning application Midday on Wednesday 15th June is the deadline for comments from the public on the latest planning application
11 June 2016 Climate change: carbon negative Now it’s not really about going ‘carbon neutral’…
10 June 2016 VGS Futures Forum – final comment on Sidford planning application Amended from the provisional comment from earlier this month.
31 May 2016 VGS Futures Forum – comment on Knowle planning application Following the rejection by the planning committee of an appication to build on the site of Knowle in 2013, there has been a further application.
28 April 2016 Beach Management Plan: latest – compiling a short list of options
01 February 2016 Sidmouth Beach Management Plan Your views on potential solutions would be appreciated
15 January 2016 Sidmouth Beach Management Plan >>> considering the consultants’ proposals >>> full report
05 January 2016 Plans for Port Royal and the Eastern Town ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION LAUNCHED