Planning decision quashed because important information not released to the public

Today a wind turbine … tomorrow … ?

“…“Local authorities would do well to note the strictness of the test here: breaches of the access to information provisions of the 1972 Local Government Act, and of the undertakings in a Statement of Community Involvement, will mean decisions taken are liable to be quashed upon challenge, unless the decision would inevitably have been the same without the breaches. Inevitability is a hard thing to prove.” ..”

http://localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20831:a-strict-test&catid=59&Itemid=27

‘Politicians are all the same, except on rural issues’…says today’s Western Morning News

WMN invites its readers to send in their comments to the newspaper, on today’s hot topic article. See WMN article Politicians, they're all the same, except..20141120_104347

New light on Knowle, thanks to Mark Williams

See today’s press release from Save Our Sidmouth http://saveoursidmouth.com/2014/11/20/chief-executive-sheds-new-light-on-knowle/

What questons will councillors have for Mr Cohen this afternoon?

At the Audit and Governance, 2.30 pm, there will be an oral update from Mr Cohen on relocation. So, it’s another opportunity for our representatives to ensure with their questioning that the office move project is not built on shifting sands.

Oddly, EDDC’s latest, and last, edition of their glossy propaganda brochure, ‘Connect’ , doesn’t mention the Knowle at all. Should it have been renamed, ‘Disconnect’ ? And will what Council Leader, Paul Diviani, calls ‘our ground-breaking East Devon app and our connectED e-magazine’, do any better?

Affordable homes? In your dreams!

But we have known this for a long time in East Devon where even enormous schemes are allowed to build without any affordable homes at all:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30009901?

though coincidentally it appears to be the case in South Somerset too:

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/opinion-Catch-22-planning-rules-holds-councils/story-24570865-detail/story.html