Beach Management Plan: EDDC FAQs updated
The District Council is making efforts to explain its plans for Sidmouth’s BMP with this press release from today: . Sidmouth and East Beach Management… Read More »Beach Management Plan: EDDC FAQs updated
The District Council is making efforts to explain its plans for Sidmouth’s BMP with this press release from today: . Sidmouth and East Beach Management… Read More »Beach Management Plan: EDDC FAQs updated
In the project summary of the BMP, the EA states: The combined scheme protects all of the frontages at Sidmouth and includes raising the splash… Read More »Beach Management Plan: “a splash barrier could actually enhance the seafront”
The Environment Agency’s South West Regional Flood and Coastal Committee will meet up this Thursday 9th January. It will consider the Sidmouth BMP Local Levy… Read More »Beach Management Plan: funding latest: bridging the gap
There’s always the question of which level of local government should be responsible for what – and it gets rather confusing, especially as one authority… Read More »District Council giving responsibilities to Town Council: assets or liabilities?
Here’s a very welcome website: . “The home of easy, every day sustainabilty for the #imperfectlygreen!” “If you want to find your tribe of fellow… Read More »How to live sustainably(ish)
One of the main issues of the Transition Town movement some ten years ago was ‘peak oil’ – that we’d be running out of the… Read More »The Energy Transition
Six years ago, beavers were spotted in the wild for the first time in hundreds of years – and it was in East Devon: Futures… Read More »On the River Otter: successful rewilding of the beaver
Will there be adequate amounts of social housing in the new dormitory towns to be built in East Devon? Plans for housing in East Devon… Read More »“More social housing for the residents of the district to be provided.”
What sort of ‘development’ do we want in East Devon? . The CEO of the District Council famously said that if we went ‘carbon neutral’… Read More »Unsustainable over-development in East Devon
“For those involved in the design of buildings and cities, be they architects, urbanists, or citizens, there is a deep responsibility to be aware of,… Read More »Architecture and climate change
We need to be thinking about where our energy is coming from – and whether it should it be wind on this windy peninsula: Futures… Read More »Wind power in East Devon
Just before Christmas, the US president had a few words to say about ‘windmills’: Donald Trump: Windmills cause cancer | Sky News The Science Alert… Read More »“Wind turbines create pollution and kill birds”
Now the season of excess is over, we might need an excuse to cut down a bit. And this might also help the planet too,… Read More »Lose weight and save the planet..
For the last decade or so our media has been all about hype and dissent. We are constantly being told that catastrophe of some sort… Read More »Notice the good things in Sidmouth
The Soviet-born British journalist Peter Pomerantsev has looked at the source of our post-truth world: Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart… Read More »Here’s to an evidence-based future!