But the plans were on display …

“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Green field housing estates in the South West – CPRE notes dismay

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Minister-want-fields-houses/story-22300866-detail/story.html

Green belt planning approvals double under coalition

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11022911/PIC-PLEASE-Doubling-in-new-homes-built-on-the-Greenbelt-since-Coalition-was-formed.html

However, Brandon Lewis, new planning minister says: …n“Local Plans are now at the heart of the planning system, so councils decide where development should go.

“There is enough brownfield land to deliver up to 200,000 new homes, and councils should be using their powers and the support that’s available from the Government to prioritise development on these sites, and defend our valuable countryside against urban sprawl.”

Er, perhaps he hasn’t yet been briefed on what happens when you haven’t got a Local Plan or a 5 or 6 year land supply.

EDDC has been digging a hole for itself!

Thanks to Matt Cobley for illustrating the point!
EDDC digs itself a large hole

More sketches needed for EDA website, on our hot topics (see blogpost headlines..e.g. from Aug 6th 2014, public can film & record all open Council meetings).
Please send your cartoons, pics, etc, to EDA via Contact Us.

Newton Poppleford – kindest village

http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Newton-Poppleford-Twitter-hit-Jeremy-Vine/story-22294793-detail/story.html

Wonder if he knows the unkind things happening to the village?

Correspondence on the role of Monitoring Officer

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/local_authority_monitoring_offic

The comments on the correspondence make interesting reading.