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In this issue: we report how the Society had helped ensure the Alston Gate developer would still be required to deliver on their 50% affordable commitment; we explain why the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Bill will take away power from local communities and place it in the hands of whoever happens to be the Secretary of State; we admit to failing to stop the proposed Collaton development; we look back to 2012 and the Society’s vision for the Joint Local Plan; we explain why proposals for Sand Pebbles are both out of place and out of proportion; and we suggest the construction of an agricultural storage building at Butterford has been permitted in error.
In this issue: we explained how Exeter-based social enterprise Treeconomics is able to financially evaluate the benefits provided by trees; we challenged those DMC members who erroneously claimed that, in failing to comment upon an application, the AONB Unit were giving consent; we discussed putting a stop to planning by the back door; we objected to both a proposal for 10 houses on a site outside the development boundary of Outer Hope Cove and a Salcombe Yawl Landing Stage; we argued the need for planning enforcement to be timely for it to be effective; and we looked back to the 1980s and ‘grand plans’ for the Kingsbridge-Salcombe estuary.
In this issue: we argued that a developer being able to pay the salary of a planning officer who would work solely on that developer’s applications failed ‘the smell test’ and ran contrary to the Nolan Principles; we explained how government tree targets could be met without any additional planting; we were hopeful the Collaton Park application could yet fail; we looked at the mess some Local Plan policies had made; we reported on how the Society had successfully objected to an application to remove 14 Sycamore trees and one Ash from a site in Salcombe; and we noted the work of our Planning Team on various applications, including those at Torcross, in Salcombe and in Kingsbridge.
