From a Budleigh correspondent:

As a Budleigh resident I was pleased to read the letter from Susan Davy that the sewage is being dealt with and all will be well by 2028.

Then I started to read between the lines.

We just have to wait until 2028 when more sewage capacity will come on stream in Exmouth.

Then I read that sewage is flowing again in Exmouth down some country lanes.

I have a deep scepticism that the Exmouth wastewater treatment will be sorted by 2028 even for the current Exmouth residents.

And then the government wants house building plus, plus in East Devon. With 2/3rds of the district a natural Landscape where will it go? Exmouth you bet. Where will these houses sewage go? Exmouth Waste Water Treatment Plant and then the sea?

Bad luck Budleigh Salterton. You will be at the tail end of the pipeline – you will be back a hundred years to the 1930s when the sewage was routinely piped out to sea!

I shall copying this to David Reed to ask him to remember that the small town of Budleigh Salterton is part of his constituency. We are part of the Exmouth sewage fiasco. We have been suffering, like Exmouth, with tankers through our High Street, poo in our bay, trees dead in the Kersbrook next to the pumping station etc. and likely to continue for years to come.