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Basically, Wain Homes say they have not installed the attenuation tanks that should have bedn installed BEFORE any home was occupied because they want to install different ones. Six houses are now occupied, likely to increase to 15 by Christmas.

Why have the tanks not been installed?

Because Wain Homes intend to extend the site with more houses and to do so will need bigger or more tanks.

Just one problem: they have not submitted further plans for more houses and the Planning Inspector recently ruled that only the current number was sustainable (in part because of the tanks) in the village.

Wain Homes refused to allow the BBC reporter on their site and refused a comment.

A Google search on Wain Homes will show that this is by no means the first time that they have courted controversy … particularly in Cornwall.

Thank heavens the district councillor for Feniton is hard-working Susie Bond and not its former incumbent disgraced ex-councillor Graham Brown, under whose watch huge numbers of houses were planned for the village with no apparent discouragement from him – indeed he was often absent from crucial meetings and did not speak up for residents at council meetings where they were discussed.

At the time he was Chairman of the East Devon Business Forum and had been Chairman of the first Local Plan Panel (2007-2011) whose work was thrown out by the incoming council in 2011 only to see their plan similarly thrown out earlier this year by the Planning Inspectorate.

Had we had a Local Plan in place it is unlikely that the current situation would have happened at all.