This is the latest concerted publicity push by those behind the “Great South West”. This enterprise is headed by Steve Hindley, Chairman of Midas property services group and backed by, amongst others, The Western Morning News and Pennon, owner of South West Water. 

The Great South West is yet another unelected, unaccountable, organisation pitching for a £2M set-up fund to design our future. Owl has previously described it as the LEP for LEPs (Local Enterprise Partnership). It covers the four counties in the peninsular: Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall and their respective LEPs.

It makes sense to consider strategic infrastructure investment decisions across the peninsular as a whole. The LEPs are not the right bodies to replace the regional development agencies. What worries Owl is that the Great South West looks (and sounds below) as if it sees itself as a contender for a devolved Combined Authority.

Owl also notes that plenty of recovery plans are being made but asks the question: do we yet know what the impact of covid-19 on our economy will be? The new normal will be different to “Build,build,build”. Are they consulting with us or our elected leaders?

“Happily consult my diary” from the PM sounds like a maybe, nothing definite. (East Devon is currently having a master class on how, even if your MP has the PM’s private email and telephone number, no great favours for the South West can be expected.)

HANNAH FINCH, Western Morning News

hannah.finch@reachplc.com

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised to ‘consult his diary’ on discussions to ‘turbo-charge’ the economy of the South West. Johnson said that he shares the vision of a prosperous Great South West during Wednesday’s PMQs.

The prominent mention follows a visit by South West MPs to Downing Street in November 2019 where Johnson pledged to Back The Great South West. Now, business and economic leaders are calling from less talk and more action.

Susan Davy, Chief Executive of Pennon Group – which has been spearheading the Back the Great South West campaign, said: “This latest recognition of the Great South West by the Prime Minister is welcome but we need firm Government commitments to the region. In line with the ‘build back better’ agenda there is a clear opportunity for the South West to become a leader in clean, environmentally sustainable growth. Businesses in the region ourselves included – will continue to help drive this forward but better digital and transport connectivity is badly needed.

“We heard similar positive words from Mr Johnson at 10 Downing Street back in November and, while we welcome further dialogue on the issue, it is time the region was given the support it deserves.”

The Prime Minister was responding to a question by Totnes conservative MP Antony Mangnall, who asked: “The Prime Minister is rightly levelling up across the country, giving that issue both barrels, but I know that the South West has often been overlooked. Will he reassure this House and Members from across the South West that we will invest in digital and transport infrastructure, we will turbocharge opportunity and we will provide the growth that they need in the South West? To that effect, will he meet a delegation from the South West to discuss the opportunities before us?”

The Prime Minister cited investment in schools at West Alvington Church of England Academy and Eden Park Primary and Nursery School, before adding: “As for his request [to meet a delegation], I will happily consult my diary.”

The Great South West has been asking for a £2million push to set up the Great South West partnership – a region-wide organisation to rival the Midlands Engine and Northern Powerhouse. It predicts that the funding could drive a £45billion uplift to the economy with green energy at its heart. The need for the funding alongside more government infrastructure spend will be top of discussions. Gary Streeter MP, chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group tasked with the Great South West agenda, welcomed further talks.

He said: “South West MPs would be delighted to take a delegation from the Great South West board to see the PM to discuss this vital issue

He added that any meeting would likely be after the White Paper on Devolution is published – due before the end of the year and setting out a placed-based regional strategy for the levelling up of regional prosperity. Steve Hindley, Chairman of the Great South West Steering Group said: “I’m delighted to hear the Prime Minister yet again mention the Great South West with enthusiasm. When we met with him last year at Number 10, he gave assurance that the south west could expect more investment in infrastructure; and indicated that we needed to be more ambitious in our asks for the set up funding for the Great South West partnership. £2million is what we need initially to drive a £45 billion uplift.

“We look forward to working with our partners in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and Dorset LEPs, the Local Authorities, our business community – including the Western Morning News which has been a vocal and valuable advocate – and indeed our wider south west stakeholders in the Western Gateway which is our neighbouring “powerhouse economy” and the latest to get formal recognition and funding from Government. We firmly believe that now more than ever is the time to Level Up.”

The Heart of the South West is soon to publish its Building Back Better plan – setting out opportunities to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Earlier this year, just before lockdown hit, Heart of the South West and LEPs in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and Dorset published its Great South West prospectus, “Securing our Future’:

Karl Tucker, Chairman of the Heart of the South West LEP said: “Our area has the potential to create a low carbon economy based on clean and inclusive growth.

“The opportunities and aspirations of the Heart of the South West dovetail with those of the wider region; and together we can build back an economy that’s not only better in terms of prosperity, but environmentally too.”

Dominic Cummings’ lockdown travels and the exams fiasco could have contributed to dooming the government’s Covid contact-tracing app before it even launches, a technology expert has warned.

Alex Hern www.theguardian.com 

Evidence of low uptake overseas also suggests the app may not live up to ministers’ early hopes of a panacea. In late May, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, admitted it was “the cherry on the cake but [not] the cake”; in recent weeks it has barely been mentioned.

The app, which is due to launch in England and Wales on Thursday 24 September, will use the bluetooth signal in mobile phones to track close and sustained contact between users and then warn those who may have been exposed to an infectious person that they should self-isolate.

But to succeed at that goal, the app will need to be installed by a large proportion of the public. That could be hard to achieve, warned Imogen Parker, the head of policy at the tech thinktank Ada Lovelace Institute, because of a series of trust-diminishing scandals over the summer.

“In March, it was suggested that we would need 80% of smartphone users to install the app for it to reduce infections. But internationally, the best case scenario we’ve seen has been about 40% uptake, and that’s in small countries like Iceland and Singapore. Examples from larger countries like Germany and Ireland suggest we’re looking more like 18-30% a few weeks after launch,” she said.

“In the UK, uptake is going to be related to trust in government. While we were doing some public work on trust over May, you had the Barnard Castle incident; after that you had the A-level algorithm. But the flip side is that the NHS brand itself is incredibly trusted.”

Parker also raised alarm at the prospect of large numbers of people being advised to self-isolate based on “false positive” results. “The best data I’ve seen suggests 45% false positives and 33% false negatives,” she said, “but phone proximity isn’t everything. The growing body of evidence about things like the substantially limited risk outside versus inside really matters. We need to make sure the app can identify risk, not just identify phones.”

The latest version of the contact-tracing app is substantially rebuilt from an earlier version. It was pulled from public release at the last minute after tests in the Isle of Wight revealed several flaws with the iPhone version. Some of those changes should help increase uptake and efficacy, said the University of Oxford’s Prof Christophe Fraser, a scientific adviser to the national test-and-trace programme.

“We and others have shown through simulations, where we show the integration of the app with manual tracing, social distancing, and so on, even 10 to 15% uptake can have an effect,” he says.

The newest version of the app is built with a framework created by Apple and Google, which means it can begin working even before it is installed on devices. It also includes a QR code-led “check-in” function, which lets users record that they have been to public locations and receive alerts for any outbreak linked to that venue.

Those features, Fraser says, should help people see that the app isn’t just important for public health but for individual outcomes too. That means that even “false positive” warnings can be useful.

“Localised contact tracing provides information, even if you’re not infectious,” he said. “It’s not really a ‘false positive’, because it’s very important to know that Covid-19 is spreading in your local area. We’re faced with a difficult winter, a grave winter, and every little behavioural nudge matters. A little bit of ventilation, mask wearing and hand hygiene does make a difference.”

The Department of Health and Social Care has been approached for comment.

A live Government dashboard has pinpointed the areas of Devon where COVID-19 cases are on the rise.

Miles O’Leary www.devonlive.com

The latest coronavirus cluster map for Exeter has identified four cases have arisen out of the Pennsylvania and University district. 

Whilst another four cases have also been confirmed in Clyst, Exton and Lympstone.

Other pockets of Exeter may have COVID-19 but the number of cases in those areas are either below three or nil.

Elsewhere, Launceston has become Cornwall’s fourth new cluster with three cases.

Paignton, Torquay and other areas of the Bay do not appear to have cases of more than two.

Likewise with Newton Abbot and down in South Devon.

The latest COVID-19 cluster areas in Devon, chiefly in the Exeter area (Image: arcgis.com)

Over in Plymouth, there are nine cases in Derriford and Estover, 10 in Mutley and another three in neighbouring Peverell.

The map divides the country into small patches of around 7,200 average population and are called Middle Super Output Areas (MSOA).

A cluster is recorded when three or more cases have been confirmed in the space of seven days.

The latest information concerns the spread of COVID from September 10 to September 16.

Plymouth’s Mutley and Peverell areas have had three or more COVID-19 cases

Overall, the number of new coronavirus cases confirmed across Devon this week have fallen compared to last week’s figures.

Government statistics show that 155 new cases have been confirmed across Devon and Cornwall in the past week, in both pillar 1 data from tests carried out by the NHS, and pillar 2 data from commercial partners, compared to 154 new cases confirmed last week.

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Of the 155 new cases, 9 were in East Devon, 12 in Exeter, 4 in Mid Devon, 4 in North Devon, 45 in Plymouth, 4 in the South Hams, 7 in Teignbridge, 2 in Torbay, 6 in Torridge, and 2 in West Devon.

Despite this, in Torbay new cases have fallen dramatically from 12 to 2, while in the Devon County Council area, they have dropped from 71 to 48.

www.bbc.co.uk 

Leaked documents involving about $2tn of transactions have revealed how some of the world’s biggest banks have allowed criminals to move dirty money around the world.

They also show how Russian oligarchs have used banks to avoid sanctions that were supposed to stop them getting their money into the West.

It’s the latest in a string of leaks over the past five years that have exposed secret deals, money laundering and financial crime.

What are the FinCEN files?

The FinCEN files are more than 2,500 documents, most of which were files that banks sent to the US authorities between 2000 and 2017. They raise concerns about what their clients might be doing.

These documents are some of the international banking system’s most closely guarded secrets.

Banks use them to report suspicious behaviour but they are not proof of wrongdoing or crime.

They were leaked to Buzzfeed News and shared with a group that brings together investigative journalists from around the world, which distributed them to 108 news organisations in 88 countries, including the BBC’s Panorama programme.

Hundreds of journalists have been sifting through the dense, technical documentation, uncovering some of the activities that banks would prefer the public not to know about.

FinCEN Files

• 2,657documents including
• 2,121 Suspicious Activity Reports

Two acronyms you need to know

FinCEN is the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. These are the people at the US Treasury who combat financial crime. Concerns about transactions made in US dollars need to be sent to FinCEN, even if they took place outside the US.

Suspicious activity reports, or SARs, are an example of how those concerns are recorded. A bank must fill in one of these reports if it is worried one of its clients might be up to no good. The report is sent to the authorities.

Why does this matter?

If you are planning to profit from a criminal enterprise, one of the most important things to have in place is a way of laundering the money.

Laundering money is the process of taking dirty money – the proceeds of crimes such as drug dealing or corruption – and getting it into an account at a respected bank where it will not be linked with the crime.

The same process is needed if you are a Russian oligarch whom Western countries have taken sanctions against to stop you getting your money into the West.

Banks are supposed to make sure they don’t help clients to launder money or move it around in ways that break the rules.

By law, they have to know who their clients are – it’s not enough to file SARs and keep taking dirty money from clients while expecting the authorities to deal with the problem. If they have evidence of criminal activity they should stop moving the cash.

Fergus Shiel from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) said the leaked files were an “insight into what banks know about the vast flows of dirty money across the globe”.

He said the documents also highlighted the extraordinarily large amounts of money involved. The documents in the FinCEN files cover about $2tn of transactions and they are only a tiny proportion of the SARs submitted over the period.

What has been revealed?

• HSBC allowed fraudsters to move millions of dollars of stolen money around the world, even after it learned from US investigators the scheme was a scam.
• JP Morgan allowed a company to move more than $1bn through a London account without knowing who owned it. The bank later discovered the company might be owned by a mobster on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list.
• Evidence that one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest associates used Barclays Bank in London to avoid sanctions which were meant to stop him using financial services in the West. Some of the cash was used to buy works of art.
• The UK is called a “higher risk jurisdiction” like Cyprus, according to the intelligence division of FinCEN. That’s because of the number of UK registered companies that appear in the SARs. Over 3,000 UK companies are named in the FinCEN files – more than any other country.
• The United Arab Emirates’ central bank failed to act on warnings about a local firm which was helping Iran evade sanctions.
• Deutsche Bank moved money launderers’ dirty money for organised crime, terrorists and drug traffickers. More details (BuzzFeed News)
• Standard Chartered moved cash for Arab Bank for more than a decade after clients’ accounts at the Jordanian bank had been used in funding terrorism.

Why is this leak different?

There have been a number of big leaks of financial information in recent years, including:

• 2017 Paradise Papers – A huge batch of leaked documents from an offshore legal service provider Appleby and corporate services provider Estera. The two operated together under the Appleby name until Estera became independent in 2016. They revealed the offshore financial dealings of politicians, celebrities and business leaders
• 2016 Panama Papers – Leaked documents from the law firm Mossack Fonseca showed more about how wealthy people were using offshore tax regimes to their benefit
• 2015 Swiss Leaks – Documents from HSBC’s Swiss private bank showed how it was using the country’s banking secrecy laws to help clients avoid paying tax
• 2014 LuxLeaks contained documents from the accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers showing that big companies were using tax deals in Luxembourg to reduce the amount they were having to pay

The FinCEN papers are different because they are not just documents from one or two companies – they come from a number of banks.

They highlight a range of potentially suspicious activity involving companies and individuals and also raise questions about why the banks which had noticed this activity did not always act on their concerns.

FinCEN said the leak could impact on US national security, compromise investigations, and threaten the safety of institutions and individuals who file the reports.

But last week it announced proposals to overhaul its anti-money laundering programmes.

The UK has also unveiled plans to reform its register of company information to clamp down on fraud and money laundering.

• T1 Turkey Oak To reduce end weight on selected branches (as identified in accompanying photos), by making target pruning cuts of up to 50mm in diameter to remove branch ends up to 2m in length. No more than 20% foliar area to be removed from any one first or second order branch. 

  16 Old Home Farm Rousdon Lyme Regis DT7 3YL

  Ref. No: 20/1965/TCA | Validated: Fri 11 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Construction of single storey side and rear extensions 

  Holly Tree Longmeadow Road Lympstone Exmouth EX8 5LE

  Ref. No: 20/1960/FUL | Validated: Fri 11 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• A variety of Holly, Beech, Sycamore along the entire length of the boundary between the Rousdon Estate and the A3052 – Crown lifting to achieve a minimum of 5.5M clearance above the A3052. Felling of invasive Cherry Laurel where it overhangs the A3052. These works are proposed as remedial work to improve the safety of the public highway A3052. Grateful for early consideration of this proposal. 

  North Lodge Rousdon Lyme Regis DT7 3XW

  Ref. No: 20/1956/TCA | Validated: Thu 10 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Variation of condition 14 (yard usage hours) of planning permission 09/2354/MFUL (Erection of class A1 food store, customer car parking, service access and associated development, as varied by 11/1173/VAR) to make permanent the use of the yard from 6am (was 7am) Monday to Saturday, which began temporarily on 3 August 2020. 

  Sainsburys Hind Street Ottery St Mary EX11 1BW

  Ref. No: 20/1953/VAR | Validated: Thu 10 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Construction of single storey extension with balcony over, pergola and detached garage 

  89 Sidford Road Sidmouth EX10 9NR

  Ref. No: 20/1948/FUL | Validated: Wed 09 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Construction of single storey extension 

  Briar Cottage Dolphin Street Colyton EX24 6NA

  Ref. No: 20/1943/LBC | Validated: Fri 11 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• T1 – Maple, Dismantle in sections to near ground level T2 – Cherry, Fell to near ground level T3 – Robinia, Dismantle in sections to near ground level Reason for works: T1 is showing significant basal decay and cavity, concerns over stability of tree due to it’s exposed location. T2 is growing within the canopy of T1 and has bad form, will be left exposed when T1 is removed. T3 has had a large stem removed and now has decay present at the base of the tree along with a potentially weak basal union. Dieback present within crown of tree, limited life expectancy. 

  Gilbrook House Woodbury Exeter EX5 1LG

  Ref. No: 20/1946/TCA | Validated: Wed 09 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Construction of two storey side extension 

  4 Burrow Farm Cottages Stoke Canon Exeter EX5 4ED

  Ref. No: 20/1940/FUL | Validated: Fri 11 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Agricultural building. 

  Land At Pamos Farm Upottery Honiton EX14 9PB

  Ref. No: 20/1950/AGR | Validated: Wed 09 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• T4 – Oak – Target prune from the highway to reduce the lower canopy. Pruning will remove 2 x broken and damaged branches to facilitate access requirements for the site. Work required to alleviate conflict between trees and vehicles. 

  Land Adjacent Tillhouse Cottages London Road Rockbeare

  Ref. No: 20/1947/TRE | Validated: Wed 09 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Construction of single storey extension 

  Briar Cottage Dolphin Street Colyton EX24 6NA

  Ref. No: 20/1942/FUL | Validated: Fri 11 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Fell 1 x Cupressus 

  High Banks Brampford Speke Exeter EX5 5HW

  Ref. No: 20/1931/TCA | Validated: Tue 08 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Remove 1 x Sycamore and replace with 1 x English Walnut 

  2 Parklands Seaton EX12 2PE

  Ref. No: 20/1920/TCA | Validated: Tue 08 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• T1, leaning pittosporum – dismantle and fell. T2, dying apple – fell to a six foot stump. T3, pittosproum by lawn – reduce and re-shape to leave a natural form. T4, magnolia – remove dying stem. 

  Springcombe House Salcombe Regis Sidmouth EX10 0JN

  Ref. No: 20/1930/TCA | Validated: Tue 08 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Roofing over open silage clamp phase 3 

  Lees Farm Southleigh Colyton EX24 6SA

  Ref. No: 20/1924/FUL | Validated: Tue 08 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Construction of single storey rear extension 

  224 Withycombe Village Road Exmouth EX8 3BD

  Ref. No: 20/1926/FUL | Validated: Tue 08 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Construction of single storey extension 

  66 Sidford High Street Sidford Sidmouth EX10 9SQ

  Ref. No: 20/1929/FUL | Validated: Tue 08 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Roofing over open silage clamp phase 2 

  Lees Farm Southleigh Colyton EX24 6SA

  Ref. No: 20/1923/FUL | Validated: Tue 08 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Proposed 2 no. additional roof windows and flue for stove 

  Fieldview Slade Farm Slade Road Ottery St Mary EX11 1QN

  Ref. No: 20/1933/FUL | Validated: Thu 10 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Roofing over livestock yard Phase 4 

  Lees Farm Southleigh Colyton EX24 6SA

  Ref. No: 20/1925/FUL | Validated: Tue 08 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Roofing over open silage clamp phase 1 

  Lees Farm Southleigh Colyton EX24 6SA

  Ref. No: 20/1922/FUL | Validated: Tue 08 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Proposed annex accommodation 

  Exton Mill Mill Lane Exton Exeter EX3 0PH

  Ref. No: 20/1904/FUL | Validated: Mon 07 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Prior approval for proposed change of use of agricultural building to a dwelling (Use Class C3) and for building operations reasonably necessary for the conversion under Class Q(a) and Q(b) 

  Land South Of Oak Lodge Chineway Road Ottery St Mary

  Ref. No: 20/1902/PDQ | Validated: Mon 07 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Construction of single storey rear extension, raised patio with ramp and steps, modification to wall for resurfaced driveway. 

  12 Windsor Mead Sidford Sidmouth EX10 9SJ

  Ref. No: 20/1897/FUL | Validated: Fri 11 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• T2, silver birch : prune T1, Pine : prune Remove all significant deadwood from within the crown of both trees, pruning the branch tips by approximately 10% crown reduction making natural target pruning cuts of approximately 10%, maintaining the shape and crown of both trees 

  3 Glenview Honiton EX14 2NT

  Ref. No: 20/1905/TRE | Validated: Mon 07 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Alterations to front elevation to allow garage conversion 

  1 Lower Knoll Douglas Avenue Exmouth EX8 2JE

  Ref. No: 20/1917/FUL | Validated: Fri 11 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Agricultural access track 

  Land At Kains Park Farm Awliscombe Honiton EX14 3NN

  Ref. No: 20/1907/AGR | Validated: Mon 07 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Silver Birch (Betula pendula) located at the North end of the garden of 67 High Street, Honiton. DBH 34cm with top height 13.5m. Fell 

  67 High Street Honiton EX14 1PW

  Ref. No: 20/1912/TCA | Validated: Mon 07 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Construction of single storey side and rear wrap around extension 

  Springfield Farm Harcombe Lyme Regis DT7 3RN

  Ref. No: 20/1900/FUL | Validated: Mon 07 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• T1 – Monterey Cypress: Replace steel cable with 3-way static brace between stems. Brace to be comprised of 12mm wire rope (7×19 construction) secured to custom made braces (in brown) rated to 14,000kg T2 – Monterey Cypress: Reduce spread of canopy to south and south west by 3m so that branches will not reach wall if tree fails. Reduce canopy to north by removing 3 or 4 branches which would impact wall if tree falls to south west. See attached arb report 

  Fernie Knowe 4 Coastguard Road Budleigh Salterton EX9 6HB

  Ref. No: 20/1916/TCA | Validated: Mon 07 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Bay Tree – Take the height back down and where possible cut back to boundary without destroying shape and sanctuary for birds, and cut back ivy The tree is blocking light and sunshine until after 1pm 

  8 Salcombe Road Sidmouth EX10 8PU

  Ref. No: 20/1903/TCA | Validated: Tue 08 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Formation of outdoor menage. 

  The Oaks Aylesbeare Exeter EX5 2DE

  Ref. No: 20/1890/FUL | Validated: Tue 08 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Certificate of lawfulness for the construction of a single storey rear extension 

  3 Inner Broomfield London Road Rockbeare Exeter EX5 2EB

  Ref. No: 20/1896/CPL | Validated: Tue 08 Sep 2020 | Status: Refused

• Cherry – Reduce radial spread of tree by 1.5 to 2 m to retain an average radial spread to 3 to 3.5m. Yew – Trim plus crown raise to give 1.5m clearance over parking bay. Holly – Prune back to boundary wall. Magnolia – Prune back to boundary wall. Purple Plum – Prune back to boundary wall. Cherry (behind Magnolia) – Suspected fire Blight. Prune affected branches back to 30cm beyond any signs of infection. 

  Green Gables All Saints Road Sidmouth EX10 8EU

  Ref. No: 20/1898/TCA | Validated: Mon 07 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Proposed ground floor rear extension 

  18 Marpool Hill Exmouth EX8 1TD

  Ref. No: 20/1884/FUL | Validated: Mon 07 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Installation of a battery storage facility and ancillary development 

  Land South Of Woodcote National Grid Substation Hawkchurch Devon

  Ref. No: 20/1877/FUL | Validated: Mon 07 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Extension of pitched roof over existing flat roof 

  16 Anson Road Exmouth EX8 4NY

  Ref. No: 20/1869/FUL | Validated: Fri 11 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Installation of 5 velux windows (roof lights) and 1 standard window on the gable end of the property. 

  Quinces Payhembury Honiton EX14 3HJ

  Ref. No: 20/1861/FUL | Validated: Mon 07 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Installation of a sewage treatment package (retrospective application) 

  Land Adjoining The Workshop Longmeadow Road Lympstone Exmouth EX8 5LF

  Ref. No: 20/1855/FUL | Validated: Tue 08 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Erection of sales centre located at Cranbrook Phase 1. Sales centre to be in use for 4 years (Renewal) 

  Site Of New Community (Phase 1) Broadclyst Cranbrook

  Ref. No: 20/1852/FUL | Validated: Mon 07 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Demolition of existing buildings and the residential development of 39 new homes in a mix of 10 no. dwellings and 25 apartments and the conversion and refurbishment of Eldin House to create 4 apartments, together with vehicle and pedestrian accesses, landscaping and associated infrastructure 

  Land At The Former Rolle College Exmouth EX8 2BL

  Ref. No: 20/1838/MFUL | Validated: Fri 11 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Application to determine whether prior approval is required for demolition of steel portal barns

  Porch Farm Smallridge Axminster EX13 7JH

  Ref. No: 20/1822/DEM | Validated: Mon 07 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Construction of detached double garage (revisions to details approved under planning permission ref. 09/1876/FUL) 

  9 Mill Lane Alfington Ottery St Mary EX11 1PF

  Ref. No: 20/1817/FUL | Validated: Tue 08 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Proposed rear balcony 

  Flat 2 19 Albion Hill Exmouth EX8 1JS

  Ref. No: 20/1823/FUL | Validated: Thu 10 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• T1 Turkey Oak crown reduction via thinning by removing regrowth up to 1 metre in length to retain a tree with an approximate height of 12 metres and spread of 4 metres, pruning cuts up to a 60mm diameter. T2 Field Maple crown reduction by removing new growth up to 1 metre in length restricting cuts to a diameter of no more than 60mm, in keeping with good arboricultural practice on a cyclical basis. 

  96 Clyst Valley Road Clyst St Mary Exeter EX5 1DE

  Ref. No: 20/1805/TRE | Validated: Fri 11 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Change of use of an existing workshop (use Class B1(c)) to a residential dwelling (use class C3) with minor alterations 

  1 Hamlet Cottages Weston Honiton EX14 3PB

  Ref. No: 20/1726/FUL | Validated: Wed 09 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Garden room (retrospective) 

  15A Knowle Road Budleigh Salterton EX9 6AR

  Ref. No: 20/1713/FUL | Validated: Tue 08 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Retention of works to sack hoist including 3no. replacement windows and re-roofing with additional structural timbers to wheel house roof and re-building brick wall and steps to garden area. 

  The Old Mill Rawridge Honiton EX14 9QS

  Ref. No: 20/1686/LBC | Validated: Mon 07 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Replacement windows: 2no. windows on ground floor and 3no. windows on first floor front elevation; 2no. on ground floor and 1no. on first floor side elevation; 1no. window on first floor rear elevation. Re-rendering 3 elevations and re-render front, rear and side elevations 

  Boldbrook Cottage 145 Withycombe Village Road Exmouth EX8 3AG

  Ref. No: 20/1651/LBC | Validated: Fri 11 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Construction of two summerhouses in rear garden 

  2 Fortfield Terrace Sidmouth EX10 8NT

  Ref. No: 20/1561/FUL | Validated: Thu 10 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Prune crown to ensure 1.5m clearance from house (Swallowdale). All cuts will be limited in size to no more than 65mm in diameter. Crown clean removing all deadwood, crossing, rubbing or broken branches. Prune crown to ensure 1.5m clearance from Oak Tree House. All cuts will be limited in size to no more than 65mm in diameter. Crown clean removing all deadwood, crossing, rubbing or broken branches. 

  Oak Tree House Glebe Close Upton Pyne Exeter EX5 5JB

  Ref. No: 20/1254/TRE | Validated: Fri 11 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Construction of balcony over the existing garage, first floor rear extension and provision of cladding to the main house 

  Kingston House Ebford Lane Ebford Exeter EX3 0QX

  Ref. No: 20/1233/FUL | Validated: Fri 11 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision

• Construction of 3 additional stables for private use 

  Fen Equestrian Centre And Glamping Ltd Venn Ottery Ottery St Mary EX11 1SG

  Ref. No: 20/1084/FUL | Validated: Mon 07 Sep 2020 | Status: Awaiting decision