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SOS news update, January 2014…

For the past few months,the Save Our Sidmouth (SOS) Committee have been assiduously preparing evidence for the Inspector at February’s Public Examination of the New East Devon Local Plan, 2006-26. SOS will speak on various carefully researched topics relating to the District Council’s plans for the Sid Valley.

The Public Examination, to be held at Knowle, opens on Tuesday 11th February. .
New documents only just submitted to the Inspector by EDDC can be seen at this link: http://www.eastdevon.gov.uk/progofficer

The Sidmouth hearing is no.7, scheduled for Tuesday 25th February, beginning 9.30 a.m.

More information specific to the Sidmouth Hearing will be posted on the SOS website over the next few weeks.
(For a wider picture of the draft Local Plan issues, see the regularly updated new website eastdevonalliance.org )


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Parliamentary pressure builds, against so-called ‘Developers’ Charter’

As shown in last week’s questions to Nick Boles in a heated debate with fellow MPs, and in last night’s BBC Inside Out report on what’s happening at Feniton, the present national planning law has serious flaws. It allows what MP David Heath refers to as “urban sprawl” in rural locations, often on good agricultural land and in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and even on floodplains.
Now calls for a change in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) are getting louder, with a move to unite campaign groups across the whole country. (The SIN blog will report on developments)

Links to the lively parliamentary debate, and Inside Out report (including reference to the “awkward” case of Graham Brown) are given below:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm140108/halltext/140108h0001.htm#14010837000001
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03pr9wv/Inside_Out_South_West_13_01_2014/