Will new EDDC Chair be ‘too busy” for the role?
Stuart Hughes, who has been appointed as EDDC Chair, is also a County Councillor. What, then, has changed since Cllr Hughes was sacked from Chairing the Scrutiny Committee after setting up an ‘in-depth study’ into EDDC’s links with the group then known as the East Devon Business Forum?
https://sidmouthindependentnews.wordpress.com/2014/04/29/which-councillor-is-too-busy/
Note from OWL: As EDWatchers well know, the so-called Business TAFF, never completed its original task, despite plucky efforts by Cllr Graham Troman (Con) ( who lost his Sidmouth seat this May).
From the SIN blog archives: https://sidmouthindependentnews.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/planning-planted-firmly-on-the-business-taff-agenda/
https://sidmouthindependentnews.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/why-mr-williams-should-go/
East Devon Watch 
A comment from a regular EDWatcher:-
BBC Radio Devon – is there a vacancy for leader?
Have you heard this interview between a newly elected (and therefore inexperienced in political terms) Independent Councillor, Cathy Gardiner, and EDDC “Blue Leader”, Paul Diviani, a man surely on top of his brief and fully in control? (Well it was early on Thursday Morning). They debate for 9 mins whether or not EDDC is open and transparent about how it makes decsions with reference to the topic of the moment – “Knowle”.
Which one do you think sounds nervous, querulous and uncertain and which one confident of the argument?
http://www.eastdevonalliance.org.uk/cathy-gardner/20150605/relocation-concerns-aired-on-bbc-radio-devon/
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