Newsletters
In this issue: we examine the implications of the government’s Land Use Strategy for our countryside, our farmers, our residents and our economy; we look at the consequences of the government’s English Devolution White Paper for local government here in the South Hams; and we consider what the effect of the government’s Planning Bill might be, not only on how decisions are taken locally but on the status of our Neighbourhood Plans; on a lighter note we look at how Lewes District council have tried to give legal rights to the River Ouse; how just over 20 years ago the Society was hoping ‘It Couldn’t Happen Here’; how Hideway has gone away; how Salcombe has experienced ‘a decade of devastation and destruction’; and we provide updates on various other planning matters .
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.
