We thought we had one – Mr Gordon Lennox – but he now also appears to be Monitoring Officer (temporary or permanent – who knows) since the last one we (temporarily) shared with South Somerset seems to have gone – all very confusing!
Or perhaps EDDC is expecting SO much work with the thousands of houses to be built the planning department must expand.
And “Strategic Lead – Legal, licensing and Democratic Services” is that Mr Gordon Lennox too? Or someone else? Only recently EDDC made one of its most senior officers redundant and another couple quietly drifted away – are we back to boom after bust?
“Joining our talented legal team, you will support our Strategic Lead (Legal, Licensing and Democratic Services) in providing a highly efficient and effective legal service. You will offer your first-class legal advice in planning and listed building law as well as administrative law to our council officers, committees and sub-committees. You will draft, negotiate and complete related legal documents and you will represent the Council at court and in planning appeals.”
http://www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/index.php?option=com_jobs&task=detail_job&id=17441:planning-solicitor&Itemid=
East Devon Watch 
It has been said in the House of Lords this morning that Government figures have pointed to the fact that we in England have enough brown field sites to build half a million houses. We need a change of a policy which because it is so much cheaper to develop, by extending local boundaries we are having so many more problems in such places as the West Country.
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