SOS Chair, Richard Thurlow, will take part in the Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group, which meets for the first time this week. It promises to be a powerful team, chaired by Deidre Hounsom , an experienced and successful campaigner with the national pressure group, 38 degrees. Other knowledgeable activists working with her will include Jeremy Woodward author of http://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.co.uk/, and architecture expert Graham Cooper, both long-term members of Vision Group for Sidmouth, and the local representative of Sustrans, Michael Brittain. A full list of the Steering Group participants, and the First Steering Group agenda, can be found at this link http://www.sidmouth.gov.uk/index.php/neighbourhood-plan
Sidmouth Drill Hall latest: TourFish RT Guide now on iBooks
The TourFish Responsible Tourism Guide is now available to download from iBooks.
To find out more and to access the link head to – https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/responsible-tourism/id1090987765?mt=11
It is also available as a pdf from http://www.sidmouthdrillhall.com/tourfish
The TourFish project brought 8 partner organisations together from the UK, France, Belgium and the Netherlands over 18 months to research and share knowledge on, and devise and deliver projects related to inshore fishing and the small-scale fisheries sector (SSF), agri-food, coastal resilience, and rural economic growth.
Funded by the EU ERDF Interreg IVa ‘2 Seas’ programme, TourFish realised a number of outcomes and outputs which are discussed in detail in the final project report compiled and published by the University of Greenwich –
‘Responsible Tourism: A Guide for Tourism and Sustainability in Small-Scale Fisheries and Agri-Food’.
Part of the TourFish project was the commissioning of a report on the viability of the restoration of Sidmouth Drill Hall which became an ‘Economic Evidence Report’ which can be downloaded here https://sidmouthdrillhall.com/economic-evidence-report/
We will now look to offer these reports to policymakers in Sidmouth and East Devon as contributions to new and ongoing initiatives including the Sidmouth Beach Management Plan and Port Royal Scoping Study, and in particular to the Sidmouth Town Council Neighbourhood Plan.
It is vital that everyone gets behind the Neighbourhood Plan and we hope that the work that we have done to date will contribute to and be an asset to it.
Thank you to all those that came along and joined us at Kennaway House on Wednesday night as part of Sidmouth Climate Week 2016. As discussed then, we will continue our contact and work with a number of partners including the NEF.
We hope you managed to get to taste the locally caught fish provided by Sidmouth Trawlers, part of a growing network of seafood producers and suppliers in coastal towns and villages across Devon.
We very much welcome any feedback on the Responsible Tourism Guide and the Economic Evidence Report, so please do get in touch.
Thank you.
Sidmouth Drill Hall Hub CIC
http://www.sidmouthdrillhall.com
info@sidmouthdrillhall.org
Knowle ” deserves more than a tokenistic nod towards conservation”, says SAVE Britain’s Heritage
The influential national conservation group, SAVE Britain’s Heritage, is dismissive of Pegasus Life’s response to their letter arguing against the demolition of the 19th century Knowle landmark building. As reported in the Sidmouth Herald (19 February 2016), Clementine Cecil of SAVE says, “Demolition is not a satisfactory way of dealing with a historic building, even an unlisted one. It is clearly a fine building that remains in use and popular. It deserves more than a tokenistic nod towards conservation in the form of keeping some tiles ,fireplaces and fragments of wallpaper. We will be objecting formally in the strongest possible terms to the planning application” .
Pegasus Life has reacted to concerns put by Michael Temple, a member of Save Our Sidmouth, that there had been some “false or ambiguous claims” in the developer’s revised plans for the site (reported on p. 12 of the Herald, 19 Feb 2016). The same edition of the newspaper quotes this statement from a Pegasus Life spokesperson: “Our consultation is ongoing and our plans are still changing to take into account comments received at our January consultation events, in advance of our planning application submission in March. As part of the application, detailed images will be submitted including verified views and site sections”.
Save Our Sidmouth 