Sidford Fields – AONB or business park? | Save Our Sidmouth

July 10, 2013
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Warning! Questions from Public on ‘minor changes’ to Local Plan, must be registered 3 DAYS IN ADVANCE of July 18th special meeting.

The EDDC website states that it is necessary to pre-register with Democratic Services by 5pm on Monday 15 July and provide, on no more than a single side of A4, the detail or a summary of the representation you wish to make and Chapter(s) of the Local Plan to which it relates.
To register, contact Hannah Whitfield (Democratic Services Officer). Tel 01395 517542, or e-mail hwhitfield@eastdevon.gov.uk.

As Save our Sidmouth takes the view that these changes are far from minor, and would have serious detrimental consequences, many evidence-based questions are expected.

For the agenda, go to : http://www.eastdevon.gov.uk/development_management_agenda_mins_remit

June 7, 2013
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Proposed 12 acre Business Park at Sidford Fields

EDDC’s plan to convert 12 acres of agricultural land on a minor road between Sidford and Sidbury into an industrial site, has raised many objections. One is the increased traffic congestion it would inevitably cause.

Existing traffic flow problems are already considerable, as shown in this recent photograph by a local resident, of the main road through Sidbury. For more relevant pictures of Sidford-Sidbury road , go to http://sidmouthindependentnews.wordpress.com , 10 Jan post. A reminder of the size and location of the planned employment land site can also be found at SIN: see 4th December 2012.

May 18, 2013
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‘Sustainable development’ at Sidford Fields?

Councillor Stuart Hughes, currently side-lined by EDDC, has vociferously argued against development of a 12 acre business park on a Sidford floodplain in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (See SOS post yesterday, and Booted Off , front page headline in Sidmouth Herald 17 May). An SOS sleuth has also recently established that EDDC has erroneously described the site as Flood zone 2, in its Local Plan documents. when in fact the Environment Agency rates much of it as Flood zone 3b (entirely unsuitable for building on). EAFloodmapSidford

A proposal for the business park is illustrated here (from the Local Plan Representation Library, no. 1969 (Fords) at http://www.eastdevon.gov.uk/lpreplibrary2.pdf. )

Oddly, no cars are shown on the diagrams, so we have added a photograph of vehicles navigating alongside the site, in July 2012. More to follow.