… East Devon has 663 empty homes, up on the year by 152. …
One can only hope this is a typing error but the Express and Echo is usually reliable on such figures. If it is correct (a) how shocking and (b) Cranbrook perchance?
Category Archives: Cranbrook
Cranbook: its gain, our loss?
Anyone else in East Devon feeling short-changed as our play areas become concrete for housing or big sheds and our youth facilities are cut?
… The builders contributed £59,330 towards a play area, while other payments have also included nearly £6,000 towards a community development worker at Cranbrook and £22,231 towards youth facilities, including a temporary youth centre and a youth worker.
Knowle relocation news: Richard Cohen to reveal all at Cabinet meeting next Wednesday (4th June)
Well, maybe not quite all? This, and other highlights of the Cabinet agenda, are listed at http://saveoursidmouth.com/2014/05/29/latest-knowle-relocation-update-by-deputy-chief-executive/
Coalescence between Exeter and East Devon continues apace
Too close to the M5? Not a problem! (Just don’t open your windows or sit in the garden perhaps? Bet the “affordables” – if they ever happen – are closest!).
Coalescence between West Dorset and East Devon continues (see Uplyme link) but, oddly, no coalescence between the Blackdown Hills and South Somerset.
Jobs and homes? You might be better off somewhere else in the south west
We are supposed to be building homes to attract (and keep) young people and families. However, those people will need jobs. Exeter may not be the best place to have one:
Mr Thickett replies about Cranbrook Community Infrastructure Levy
The letter is here:
Click to access cilletterno2.pdf
Whilst it is somewhat technical it would appear that the shopping centre planned for Cranbrook will be affected by this basic disagreement about calculations that will need to be paid by developers.
Planning Inspector unhappy with the way Cranbrook Community Infrastructure Levy calculated – yet another setback
And once again, he points to figures apparently having no evidence behind them:
Click to access cilletterno1.pdf
Reminds me of an old saying: “I’m always in the excrement, it’s only the depth that varies”.
News from Cranbrook
A few snippets from the Cranbrook Herald for April 2014:
GP surgery COULD (not would) be open by “the end of the year”
There will be a meeting for “sponsors” of the new education campus
The local PCSO has been set a target of 350 “likes” on his Facebook page
Concerns raised over SkyPark bus service
Children at the Primary School have opened a sweet shop which has generated more than £200 in profit
When asked what they would like to see in Cranbrook, a selection of three residents said:
“I would like to see the park up and running soon as the children really have nowhere they can go and play. I would also like to see the shops built as I don’t drive and it is difficult for me to get my essential shopping every week”.
“I would like to see a few shops and a few takeaways. As far as my children are concerned … they can’t wait for the playground to be open. I also think a skatepark would be a really good idea so that he could play with his scooter somewhere instead of the pavements.”
“As a dog owner it would be nice to have some bins … a pub would be nice … as would a cashpoint and a local shop”.
Cranbrook … sustainable … reduce dependency on cars …
Front Page Headline in the “Cranbrook Herald” April 2014:
What do we want? Buses on Sunday! Residents urged to petition Devon County Council
The article goes on to say thatLena Wilding, sales negotiator for Persimmon Homes, said that potential house buyers interested inb a move to Cranbrook have enquired about the Sunday public transport situation in the town.
Residents have been urged to write to Devon County Council requesting a Sunday bus service.
Would that it were so simple! If it were, buses would already be planned for Skypark from all over the district!
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