There will be two sessions for this DMC (Tues 7th May) one in the morning, and one in the afternoon. Beginning at 11.am, several Planning Applications for Ottery St Mary will be considered.

All other Planning Applications will be discussed from 2pm, including the highly contentious one for Waldron’s Farm. This was of course referred to the Ombudsman after three Liberal Democrat members of DMC resigned in protest over alleged procedural irregularities. Outline Planning Permission has since been approved, as the Ombudsman found no evidence of anything untoward.  Members of the public are expected to express their continuing concerns to the DMC on Tuesday afternoon.

Our attention has been drawn to a new Open University course on public action over many of the current issues causing so much public discontent. Here’s the link:

The contacts which have now merged to form the East Devon Alliance, were initially made at the Mass March organised by Save our Sidmouth (Nov 2012..see photos in our Category archive, Mass March ).

SOS supporters may therefore be interested in the following link :EDA Constitution – adopted 20.04.13

A  report of last Saturday’s EDA members’ meeting is due shortly on http://sidmouthindependentnews.wordpress.com