Answer: at EDDC – think tank, forum, meeting, group, working party, board
All these words mean secret
as in
Economy think tank
Asset Management Forum
Parishes and town councils meeting
Capital Strategy and Allocation Group
Relocation Working Party
Exmouth and Seaton Regeneration Board
As stated in the post below, most of EDDC’s work now seems to be done this way. You can’t see agendas or minutes and Freedom of Information requests for information on these meetings are routinely refused.
Recall that, in its first incarnation, even discussions about the (failed) Local Plan (called Local Development Framework in those days and chaired by expelled-ex-Tory Councillor Graham Brown) were secret until an Independent Councillor (Claire Wright) forced publication.
How can you know who or what to vote for if you don’t know what they say or do?
East Devon Watch 
More to the point:
1. Most of the above meetings are populated almost exclusively by Tory’s with e.g. Independents excluded. That is NOT democracy.
2. WHY do they feel the need to keep all these meetings secret? What do they have to hide?
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