Remember when we asked for extra time for consultations?

Usually over planning matters where sneaky developers dropped in applications over Christmas or summer holidays or when we wanted more time to consider important things like the move to Skypark? And all the times we were told we had been given plenty of time?

Well, now the boot is on the other foot: EDDC wanting (rightly) more time to respond to the cuts being made by DCC, particularly those affecting young people.

http://www.eastdevon.gov.uk/communications_and_consultation.htm?newsid=1059

Let’s hope they are luckier than we have been!

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1 Apr 2014

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EDDC, West End: WestClyst BroadClyst/ Pinhoe

R.I.P Pinhoe Village – mostly thanks to EDDC – and even EDDC’s own councillors question the need to make the decision so quickly

http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Approval-800-homes-outskirts-Exeter-8220-8217/story-20892905-detail/story.html

and in more detail, including quotes from EDDC councillors here:

http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Critics-hit-8216-premature-8217-decision-build-1/story-20892918-detail/story.html

“At the meeting Liberal Democrat East Devon district ward member for Broadclyst, Councillor Derek Button said: “This land is the lungs of Exeter and should never be built on.”

Prior to the meeting, the Devon branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England raised concerns about the scale of the applications in the green wedge.

Member for Broadclyst, Conservative Councillor Peter Bowden, questioned why the plans could not have been heard after the Local Plan inspector’s ruling. “It would have been perfectly in order to extend the time for the applications to be heard in order for the Local Plan Inspector’s report to have been published first,” he said.”

It will be recalled that one of the applications is from one of the former East Devon Business Forum’s founder members.