Breaking: new controls on dumping sewage
The Environment Bill “will be further strengthened with an amendment that will see a duty enshrined in law to ensure water companies secure a progressive… Read More »Breaking: new controls on dumping sewage
The Environment Bill “will be further strengthened with an amendment that will see a duty enshrined in law to ensure water companies secure a progressive… Read More »Breaking: new controls on dumping sewage
How the heritage sector is acting to address climate change – and how heritage is part of the solution to climate change. (October 2021 “EDDC… Read More »Heritage and climate change: ‘taking positive action’
This growing movement works by unlocking the potential of economic assets and strengths that already exist in our communities. . Interesting things have been happening… Read More »New times: new ideas: Community Wealth Building
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
… 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
“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
Where do we build it and on what scale? . URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE: We need the right sort of ‘infrastructure’ to handle the extremes in the… Read More »What kind of green energy infrastructure do we want?
“Those working in the sectors which are facing shortages now were applauded as essential workers a year ago.” . If you’re a “key worker”, now… Read More »Valuing our key workers
Radical reformer or practical performer? Nimby tackler or greenbelt defender? “Giving local people a greater say over where homes should be built, what they look… Read More »The new housing minister: What’s he all about?
“What is likely to be missing is one simple course of action that might convince people that levelling up is worth their interest: finally giving… Read More »Levelling up: What’s it all about?
. Devon Maritime Forum News Bulletin – Sept. 2021 EVENTS; let you have a look at the latest RESEARCH + REPORTS coming out of our own world class institutions and… Read More »Devon Maritime Forum – September newsletter
“Homes on stilts” Zero-carbon, modular housing using space above car parks . In his monthly piece in the Herald, the Leader of the District Council… Read More »Should we build affordable housing above car parks?
“Two-thirds of energy is wasted by the current antiquated system.” “There are instead a variety of options available which will reduce constraints on the grid… Read More »A more energy-efficient alternative to the national grid
“Do they live up to the vision of a new mechanisation system for farming?” . We need some fresh, innovative thinking – which can be… Read More »Autonomous machines – aka robots – on farms