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Daily Telegraph’s latest ‘sting’ catches Planning Minister, Nick Boles

The link to today’s article is : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/hands-off-our-land/9947318/Planning-ministers-war-on-the-countryside.html 

This is what tomorrow’s march at Feniton is all about! Organisers East Devon Alliance invite you to the ‘Black Day for the Countryside’ protest.     feniton-march-poster 23.03.13

Marchers will be wearing black mourning clothes and carrying black balloons and ribbons. Some will have Brown Envelopes and other banners.

EDA is calling for the postponement of the  deadline for the National Planning Policy Framework  (NPPF.. next Wednesday 27 March) , until Local Authorities have their 5-year Land Supply Plan in place.

Nick Boles has close links with East Devon. This recent report from another national newspaper has details:  http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/370412/Housing-land-grab-minister-warned-Don-t-come-home


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Black Book NOT FOR PUBLICATION

The East Devon Alliance has asked us to stress that information kept in the so-called Black Book register will be held in strict confidence. IT IS NOT FOR PUBLICATION.

Response to the ‘Browngate’ affair,  from all quarters, has triggered the need for a record to be kept.  Material gathered may eventually prove useful to any formal Inquiry.  No content will be passed on to any other source without prior permission of contributors, however.

To simplify matters, those wishing to contribute are asked to use the Black book register and return it to the SIN mailbox,   sidmouthindependentnews@gmail.com

 The East Devon Alliance* website will be available soon. Meanwhile, EDA news is regularly posted  at http://sidmouthindependentnews.wordpress.com

*EDA is the newly-formed, non-party-political pressure group,uniting all seven towns and many villages throughout the district. Its first event is ‘The Black Wednesday for the Countryside’  this weekend. Details here:   feniton-march-poster 23.03.13

 


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Open letter to Councillor Phil Twiss

On 18th March  Cllr Phil Twiss, Whip of the Tory Group of EDDC councillors, sent them an email criticising Tony Green’s paper Planning in East Devon and the East Devon Business Forum which was sent to all councillors in October last year.
Tony Green has replied to Cllr Twiss in an open letter., a copy of which can be viewed in a post today at http://sidmouthindependentnews.wordpress.com .

Councillor Twiss’s e-mail can be read here:  Comments re Tony Green paper 16th March 2013