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Sidmouth Neighbourhood Plan gets underway with Public Meeting, Tues 19 January, 7pm, St Teresa’s Church Hall, Connaught Road

The new composition of Sidmouth Town Council, resulting from the May 2015 elections, has allowed a Neighbourhood Plan (NP) to get started at long last. A Neighbourhood Plan, as you may know, gives some protection against speculative development.
Save Our Sidmouth hopes that you will show your support for this essential work, by coming along to the Town Council’s information meeting on Tuesday 19th January 2016, 7pm, St Teresa’s Church Hall, Connaught Rd (N.B. not Woolbrook Rd, as originally stated here).
More information on the poster (below..click to enlarge). Please tell anyone you know who might be interested.

NP Poster

This link has further comment on the topic: http://futuresforumvgs.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/neighbourhood-plan-how-you-can-become.html


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Cllr Stuart Hughes says Sidford Business Park proposal dropped from Local Plan. Speculation or fact?

As reported in our earlier post today, Leader Paul Diviani makes clear on the EDDC website that “any information published should be viewed as purely speculative and not as fact.”
Does this mean that Cllr Hughes’ comments to the Sidmouth Herald may be slightly premature? You can read them here: 080116 local plan comment


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Contents of Local Plan remain confidential until fact checking exercise complete

08 January 2016

The EDDC website has this statement today, from EDDC Leader, Paul Diviani, on the Local Plan “tentative final report”:

“The Local Plan Inspector has given East Devon District Council his “tentative final report” on the district’s Local Plan and Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) charging schedule, which officers will be scrutinizing before responding with any comments within a given two week deadline.

“At this stage, the contents of the report, which contains the Inspector’s final conclusions and recommendations, could still change, and it would therefore not be appropriate for us to publish or comment on any of its contents until the Inspector has received our comments and issued his final report.

“The Local Plan has been an intensive and lengthy exercise, requiring a great deal of skilled input and resource, and its importance to the future development of the district cannot be overstated. While the council undertakes to “fact check” the documents, there will undoubtedly be attempts by the media to second guess what its final contents will be, but until the council issues any formal press releases, any information published should be viewed as purely speculative and not as fact.

“We look forward to moving towards adoption of the Local Plan and to implementing its strategy to the benefit of the residents of East Devon.”