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National network of campaign groups launched today in South West.

Save our Sidmouth is now linked with similar campaign groups across the UK, thanks to the new Save Our Green Spaces network. Guest speakers at the first conference held today, included the Chief Executive of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England,Sean Spiers; Chair of the All Party Interest Group on Green Belts, Chris Skidmore MP; and Jacob Rees-Mogg, MP for NE Somerset.

Opponents of EDDC’s plans for a large out-of town business park, with possible retail, at Sidford Fields, will be interested in how the new network defines sustainable development: it means “development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.

More details posted on the SIN blog today, will be followed there shortly by a full report on the conference.


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Our voting system: examining the figures

Points raised in the letter published in yesterday’s Sidmouth Herald (29th November) from EDDC Conservative Party Whip, Phil Twiss, are causing much discussion. The Vision Group for Sidmouth, part of the Save Our Sidmouth campaign, has posted some revealing information on votes cast locally (see http://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/over-representing-parties-through.html and http://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/over-representing-parties-through_29.html )

See also, this link to SIN : http://sidmouthindependentnews.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/conservative-councillors-are-free-to-express-their-own-views-says-east-devon-party-whip/

There will no doubt be more on and around the subject….


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Democratic deficit widens at EDDC

A serious clampdown on the spontaneity of public questions was decided yesterday at Knowle. Questions must now be submitted in writing, two days in advance.
The electorate waits to see if the quality of answers, commonly unsatisfactory and often evasive, will be affected.
More comment can be found on today’s SIN blog: http://sidmouthindependentnews.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/another-nail-in-the-coffin-of-democracy-in-east-devon-officers-and-cabinet-rule/