Anyone tried the “new” EDDC website yet – the responsibility for which can be laid at the door of the redoubtable Councillor Ray Bloxham – you know, the one who cut down public speaking so much at EDDC that it is now virtually non-existent and you can’t say anything until you have told EDDC in triplicate a year before what you intend to say …..

Well, he’s at it again – trumpeting the newly-designed EDDC website. Except that we hear it is generating lots of complaints. Unwieldy, not-fit-for-purpose, a step backwards rather than a step forwards, etc etc.

Trying to find out what is going on at meetings to come or meetings past is an absolute nightmare – minutes linked individually so that you have to go back and forwards many times to read them all, links that don’t lead anywhere, you name it, all in the name of “progress” so that EDDC can offer “more services” online.

Except that it is almost impossible to find the services!

However, see what Councillor Bloxham has to say here (if you can find it):

http://new.eastdevon.gov.uk/news/2014/07/open-for-business/

Well, yes, we do know that EDDC is open for business for SOME people who get unlimited access to REAL people – mostly developers. But for the rest of us are we to be subjected to “New-EDDC website lite beta” rather like “New Labour” or “New Fairy Liquid” … not always a step in the right direction!