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Cllr Graham Brown, Chairman of East Devon Business Forum, will be under scrutiny at tomorrow’s TAFF meeting, 6pm at Knowle.

TAFF Sherlock P1030006  Following today’s revelations in the Daily Telegraph*, the Task and Finish Forum can at last get on with the job it was tasked with:  to do an ‘in-depth report’ on the East Devon Business Forum.

A large public presence, and many direct questions, are guaranteed at tomorrow’s TAFF meeting , 6 pm Tues 12 March, at EDDC’s HQ, Knowle, Sidmouth .

Media will be also present.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9921344/Councillors-for-hire-who-give-firms-planning-advice.html


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Daily Telegraph scoop today. Frank interview with Councillor Graham Brown

EDDC’s problems have just become a national scandal.  It is summed up as follows: When a reporter asked what his “strategy” was when it came to winning approval for a planning application, Mr Brown explained: “Where I’m good, I know all the different people to go to … Like if you came to me with a set of problems, I’d say, ‘Right the first thing we do, we need to go and talk to, say, the economic development manager’.”

Full story at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9921344/Councillors-for-hire-who-give-firms-planning-advice.html


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BBC Radio 4’s TODAY programme on NPPF and East Devon

An outbreak of building  “the wrong houses in the wrong place” will result from the  National Planning Policy Framework, due to be in place by 27th March. So says the spokesman for the Campaign for Rural England, interviewed on this morning’s  Today programme, broadcast from Feniton. You can also hear the views of EDDC Councillor Andrew Moulding, and Dr John Withrington of Fight for Feniton’s Future , at  this link: BBC Radio 4 – Today