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?

The campaign group challenging the granting of planning permission for an industrial estate on the border of Sidmouth posted its most recent update over a… Read More »Sidford Business Park: Update 35: Calling in the Inspector’s decision