EDDC | Save Our Sidmouth

March 26, 2013
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Planning free-for-all begins

This will of course have consequences for East Devon, including Sidmouth. AONB is no longer sacrosanct, it seems. Report from yesterday’s Daily Telegraph at this link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/hands-off-our-land/9951392/Middle-England-prepares-for-planning-war-over-new-developments.html

March 25, 2013
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Black Wednesday for the Countryside looms, as NPPF regulations come into force on 27 March.

The East Devon Alliance marchers at Feniton last weekend, called for the NPPF to be delayed until unprepared Local Authorities, including EDDC, have a 5-year Land Supply Plan approved.

Speeches from the Black Day for the Countryside march, are posted at http://sidmouthindependentnews.wordpress.com

March 24, 2013
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Developers’ charter imminent (from next Wednesday, 27 March)

Save our Sidmouth supporters may be interested in this letter sent in to our website mailbox yesterday. It relates to next week’s National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) deadline, which will have particularly disastrous consequences for East Devon’s villages and towns…including Sidmouth.

Dear all,
Some while ago, I wrote to my MP expressing concern about clauses 1 and 8 in the Growth and Infrastructure bill. The reply from Nick Boles is here: Doc1

Either Nick Boles has not read the bill, or he supposes that nobody else has! The reply is inadequate, and my response to my MP on clause 1 is attached. Dear Julian Smith MP_clause1

It hardly matters what local councils do, if Pickles can disenfranchise them on little more than a whim. As it is worded, standing up to developers will be classed as “under performance” and the LPA will be “designated”. Developers will then apply directly to the Secretary of State, who will wave applications through without regard to local knowledge or opinion.

If you have not already lobbied your MP on this one, please do so ASAP. This bill is nearing assent.

Please also refer to http://www.whosehomeisit.co.uk.

Best regards,

David Walsh