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Consultation on Changes to the East Devon Local Plan: draft feedback report

All comments made have now been logged on EDDC’s database and have produced a draft feedback report ahead of the Full Council meeting at Knowle on 23 October 2013. This is the link: http://www.eastdevon.gov.uk/lp-feedbackreportoct2013.pdf

The Planning Policy Manager, Matthew Dickins, has sent out the following message:

‘The draft feedback report summarises each individual comment and other relevant information. We would welcome your views on the accuracy of our records and any amendments that you would see as appropriate. If you have any comments on our recording please return them to me, if possible, by Monday 28th October 2013 as I plan to send the feedback report (amended where appropriate) and copies of all representations to the Inspector at or very soon after this date. If you wish to receive a paper print out of our record of your submission please advise. If you want to suggests changes to our summary of any of your representations please note that our database summary field has a limit of 255 characters (letters, spaces, full stops etc).
The Inspector undertaking the Examination has advised that Hearing Sessions for the Examination are scheduled to start on 11 February 2014. More information can be viewed on the Council web pages at:
http://www.eastdevon.gov.uk/lpsubmission.htm
If you wish to receive further information on the Local Plan please do not hesitate to contact me.
Direct Line – 01395 -571540’


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Paul Diviani’s reply to Chair of Save Our Sidmouth

Earlier this week, Richard Thurlow sent a message to the Leader of East Devon District Council, calling for a formal apology, and asking him to withdraw false allegations about SOS in a recent e-mail circulated to 100 or so people, including Parish Councils. An SOS press release was also issued (see SAVE OUR SIDMOUTH GROUP REJECTS DIVIANI ALLEGATIONS, posted 14th Oct on our website).

Mr Diviani has just replied, as follows:

Dear Mr Thurlow

Thank you for your email of the 14th and I apologise for not getting back to you sooner but I have had very heavy schedule.

I see you are commenting on a recent E Mail I sent to various people (not including you or any of the other people on this distribution list). I note the points you make including selective use of some of the content of that E Mail.

You are of course quite rightly entitled to view things as you perceive them and equally the same is true of me including comments made in the E Mail to which you refer. From my point of view I think it likely that we will have to agree to disagree on the opinions expressed in your E Mail.

Kind regards

Paul


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DMC approves draft report on the further consultation to Local Plan

EDDC’s Development Management Committee (DMC), approved the draft report on the further consultation to the Local Plan today. The only change was that that DMC requested that the Technical Officers examine the responses and indicate those which are relevant to the consultation, (ie refer and comment on the “Changes” to the LP), and those which are not, (ie containing comments which are not solely related to the changes).

However every comment will be sent to the Inspector after approval by the Full Council . It is expected that the responses will be sent to the Inspector by the end of this month.

The Programme Officer, Amanda Polley, now has a web page on which she lists and will continue to list, comments and requests from the Inspector and responses from EDDC. SOS has asked that she notifies them every time that there is an addition to that list so that we do not miss anything.

SOS and their consultant, (Charlie Hopkins), will now start preparing their support data for the Public Examination which starts on February 11th 2014. We do not yet know the issues and the order in which they will be examined, but await the detail on the Programme Officer’s web page

R J Thurlow
Chair, Save our Sidmouth