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In this issue: we look at the implications of the government’s English Devolution White Paper for local democracy here in the South Hams; the impossibility of achieving the government’s new housing targets within the time specified and without concreting over our protected landscapes; the improbability that the government can deliver clean power by 2030; the development opportunities offered by Exemption Certificates; the issues that Octopus Energy still need to address before being able to erect a wind turbine 294 feet high from ground to tip in the National Landscape; the cost of protecting Bechstein’s Bat; various planning matters; the future of the South Hams Society; how history seems to be repeating itself; and much much more.
In this issue: we examine the Government's proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework and the impact those changes could have on the South Hams; we give notice of a proposed wind turbine, 89.5 metres high from ground to tip, planned to be installed on a site in the South Devon National Landscape; we explain how Schedule 2, Part 6, Class A.1(e)(i) of the GPDO has been allowed to become a postcode lottery; we look at what is going on at Sharpham; we report how the Local Government Ombudsman is to investigate the failure to restore what was originally intended to be no more than a temporary construction compound to its previous condition; we raise a number of enforcement issues; and we give details of this autumn's forthcoming series of Crabshell Conversations.
In this issue: we return again to the subject of the Freeport and the number of new jobs it will supposedly create; we also look once more at the Devolution Deal and the Devon and Torbay Combined County Authority that it will bring in to being in the light of manifesto commitments made by the likely next government; we question whether Parish Profiles can offer a better guide to housing need than the housing needs surveys compiled for Neighbourhood Plans; we consider more enforcement issues; provide updates on various planning applications; report on the progress of four planning appeals; wonder whether rewilding could provide a better means of controlling deer and squirrel numbers; look back at the coming of the second Kingsbridge supermarket; and publish details of the shows and events the Society will be attending this summer.
