The 140 letters of objection sent to EDDC legal team have not carried any weight, as they were all only “of Sidmouth concern”, Richard Cohen told last night’s Cabinet meeting.
An initial report of the meeting is at this link: http://eastdevonwatch.org/2015/03/12/a-very-noisy-group-of-people-in-sidmouth-have-irritated-cllr-tim-wood/
Category Archives: East Devon Issues
Sidmouth’s signature landmark to become large retirement community?
EDDC is determined to change the use of Sidmouth’s Knowle site from employment land to restricted residential. See http://eastdevonwatch.org/2015/03/04/knowle-bidder-revealed-by-express-and-echo/
Relocation update….important dates for your diary.
In order to have the relocation issue sorted before the pre-election ‘purdah’ period, EDDC has apparently re-scheduled its meetings in March as follows:
Weds 11 March 5.30pm, Knowle. Cabinet will consider the Knowle Relocation.
Thurs 12 March 5pm, Knowle. Special combined meeting of the Audit and Governance and of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Weds 25th March 6.30pm, Knowle. The climax will then come at Full Council.
To date, these meetings are not yet mentioned here: http://new.eastdevon.gov.uk/media/643274/Mtg-Prog-201415-matrix-v5.pdf
Further dates of interest to Save Our Sidmouth supporters:
27th March 2015. Tribunal decision expected on whether certain unpublished relocation reports,should be made public.(Background here https://saveoursidmouth.com/2014/08/27/reminder-tribunal-tomorrow-thursday-28-august-10-a-m-exeter-magistrates-court-eddc-vs-information-commissioner-j-woodward/ and here https://saveoursidmouth.com/2014/10/30/tribunal-judgement-further-delayed/)
September, 2015. Devon County Council decision on public footpaths at Knowle.
April/May 2015 Please also note that a Knowle Planning Application is likely to be submitted in April/May. The new Local Plan draft will be out for consultation at this time, as well.
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