http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/New-Ikea-set-open-late-2016/story-26392411-detail/story.html
Surely an Environmental Impact Assessment was needed and these things were spotted? A site such as this with the Estuary close by would have had one wouldn’t it ……
After all, EDDc does know what its doing and protects the environment doesn’t it?
Aah, spotted the flaw …..
Clinton Devon Estates took the time, trouble and money to put this advertisement in this week’s Exmouth Journal. Judge for yourselves whether this is a good thing for Exmouth or not. The fact that the new draft Local Plan is out for consultation at the moment is a total coincidence no doubt.
Thursday, April 23, 2015 Exmouth journal
CLINTON DEVON ESTATES
A statement from Clinton Devon Estates
Our support for the future of Exmouth
We understand that some residents are concerned about the future growth and development of Exmouth and the role of Clinton Devon Estates in helping to deliver it. We would therefore like to take this opportunity to explain how we believe it can be achieved responsibly and sensitively.
Our vision is for a wholly sustainable development to meet the social, economic and environmental needs of the next generation; providing our children and grandchildren with a well-connected, balanced community with homes for all ages, employment and space for nature and for leisure.
Seven years of research and feedback, including information received during our Plumb Park consultation, has informed our vision to support the sustainable development of Exmouth. One key finding is that hardly any affordable housing has been delivered over the past I 0 years. Our response to this evidence includes:
Clinton Devon Estates’ links with Exmouth go back many hundreds of years. Our track record of delivering homes and employment as well as our investment in agriculture, the environment and the local economy should offer reassurance that we have the best interests of the town and the community at heart, both for today and for the next generation. Indeed, all proceeds from our sustainable developments will be reinvested in Exmouth and the local area.
We invite you to view our masterplan for Exmouth’s sustainable future at http://www.plumbpark.co.uk
Many people seen in the area of Exmouth Rugby Club, talking animatedly and clutching a lot of Parliamentary Candidate Claire Wright’s election literature. …There was standing room only for late arrivals to this latest in the series of Claire’s public meetings.
So tonight’s PPC hustings, also in Exmouth (Fri 17th April), should be interesting! Glenorchy Church at 7.30 pm. Organised by Exmouth Christians together. Come early to get a seat!
Coincidentally, after EDWatch’s recent post ‘Marketing the Jurassic Coast’, this relevant job advertisement has today been circulated.
31 March 2015
Are you an experienced administrator who can make a big difference to the Jurassic Coast?
The Jurassic Coast Trust funds and inspires education and conservation projects along the 95 miles of World Heritage Coastline. We’re looking for someone to help us make sure we run our projects and activities more efficiently, to keep an eye on the details and to provide support to our growing numbers of volunteers.
From organising events to keeping tabs on the finances, we need a friendly and professional all-rounder with great communication skills who can work as part of our small team and help us do the very best job we can.
The position is part-time (15 hours per week), based in Dorchester, and paying circa £7.50/hour. A full job description can be downloaded from our website.
To apply, please submit a CV and a covering letter, explaining how your skills and experience match the role profile for this job, to Alexandra O’Dwyer at the Trust – a.odwyer@jurassiccoast.org.
The closing date for applications is Friday 10th April 2015.
Yours sincerely
Guy
Guy Kerr
Community Coordinator
Jurassic Coast Trust
g.kerr@jurassiccoast.org
077 6611 2724
Richard Thurlow’s speech, at the Extra Ordinary Meeting of Full Council last week, explains : https://saveoursidmouth.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/a-huge-number-of-uncertainties-and-unresolved-problems-being-glossed-over-yet-council-has-approved-eddc-office-relocation/
..and the money rolls out, thanks to a District Council which (as Seaton Cllr Peter Burrows put it) “may not be in existence when the loan expires.”
Yet no-one knows whether Pegasus Life Ltd will offer EDDC for the Knowle a figure nearer £7million or nearer £8million (the rough price-range agreed). But with no Heads of Terms yet fixed, councillors’ vote tonight to go ahead with relocation nonetheless, puts the ball firmly in Pegasus Life’s court.
As usual, questions from the public went unanswered.
Extracts from the meeting will be available on YouTube soon. The link, and more on tonight’s Extra Ordinary meeting, will be posted on EDWatch in due course.
Rush, rush, rush! Councillors will have barely had time to read through and fully digest the minutes of the Special Development Management Committee meeting (on Monday 23 March), which have just been sent to them, before they are required to make a ‘final decision’ on relocation at this evening’s 6.30pm meeting.
Will all have opened their e-mails straightaway? And how many will have been able to collect well in time, the paper copy of the minutes available from their pigeon holes from 4pm today?
In a whirlwind week of Extra Ordinary meetings, some Councillors might be hardpressed to sufficiently absorb the latest information on a whole raft of extremely important decisions with long-term consequences. They are being inexplicably and unreasonably squeezed into a decision on the sale of Knowle, AND proposed changes to the revised Local Plan, in the same short period of time.
The links received (hopefully) by Councillors are:
http://eastdevon.gov.uk/media/1002849/260315-extra-ordinary-council-ag
> enda-local-plan.pdf
The previously circulated Special Development Management Committee
> agenda papers:
> Agenda –
> http://eastdevon.gov.uk/media/990985/230315-special-combined-dmc-agend
> a.pdf
> Draft schedule of proposed changes –
> http://eastdevon.gov.uk/media/990982/230315-sp-dmc-table-of-changes-to
> -local-plan-v3-march-15.pdf
Addendum report with proposed changes –
> http://eastdevon.gov.uk/media/1018372/230315-sp-dmc-addendum-report-it
> em-5.pdf
Revised Draft New East Devon Local Plan with tracked changes:
> http://eastdevon.gov.uk/media/990979/230315-sp-dmc-local-plan-with-cha
> nges-for-post-hearing-consultation-ver-04-march-2015.pdf
Councillors have a lot on their shoulders. The public speaking this evening would clearly like to share the load.
Seems rather unfair – and announced just before local elections too:
Wonder which councillor(s) will be jumping in to take the credit before 30th March when this sort of thing has to cease until after the elections!
Probably not worth Ladbroke’s opening a book …..!
Wonder if EDDC will be subsidising this via LED? Or will it eventually be sold on to the highest bidder after expensive renovation?
Note: EDDC hived off its leisure interests to Leisure east Devon now known as “Led Leisure Management Ltd” and has subsidised the company with hundreds of thousands of pounds since the handover, with several EDDC Conservative councillors involved in the company who have to declare personal interests whenever the company and its finances are discussed (often in secret).
Is the company, like the banks, too big to fail?
Get an initial £10,000 and ability to bid for a share of a further £3 million. None of our coastal towns are amongst the first 12 to be announced.
Teamworking amongst towns does not seem to be popular in East Devon, perhaps because they are often at loggerheads due to devisive political shenanigans at town and district council level.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coastal-community-teams-bidding-prospectus
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-31756845
Seems nothing has changed since 2014:
Or even 2013:
So where will EDDC officers park if the Town Hall becomes a Honiton satellite centre? Just can’t see them paying for parking in Exmouth and getting free parking in Honiton. Or will they get special dispensation to park anywhere in East Devon – and maybe even Teignbridge and Exeter!
“…The problem now is that many of the Tesco developments on which town hall leaders had staked regeneration plans have been cancelled. These include schemes to redevelop the town centre in Kirkby, Merseyside (where previously Tesco’s plans to build a complex alongside a new stadium for Everton FC were rejected by the government in 2009) and the former Royal Hospital in Wolverhampton, West Midlands …”
“Beaches will be stripped bare of all sand, coastlines will change and seaside communities and transport infrastructure will have to move inland if the Westcountry is to be resilient to climate change.
Two of the region’s experts on climate change have warned that while last winter’s storms may have been the worst in 60 years, the frequency of such dramatic weather events mean coastal communities, businesses and authorities have to plan for the future and adapt to climate change.”
East Devon Watch has received a circular from the Marley Planning group who are objecting to a plan for 150 houses (on top of 350 from another developer in adjacent land) off Marley Road, Exmouth. The plan appears to have the hallmarks of a speculative application recognised as being able to take advantage of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) situation. An attempt to have the land included last time around was thrown out.
The planning application is 14/3022/MOUT and objections must be in no later that 10th February. Copies of objections should go to Exmouth Town Council.
For anyone wishing to add their voice to the objections,the Marley Planning Group Campaigners have prepared a draft letter of objection which can be used as it is, or modified as required. Details at this link Proforma Letter Marley Planning Group . For further information please e-mail marleyleyplanning@yahoo.co.uk .
EDW footnotes:
-Readers may be aware that the developer cut down a sizeable ancient oak before the community consultation.
-The applicant’s submitted documents claim there would be no impact on the local surgery, based solely on the fact that the surgery (Raleigh Surgery) still takes new patients. However, we are told that one of the partners has said in the press they could not absorb such numbers without significant resources.
Cost neutral my ….!
“In response to a question about the cost of accelerating refurbishment of the Exmouth Town Hall if relocation to that site (as part of a dual site option) was agreed, it was confirmed that some capital could be used, but some borrowing may also be necessary which would incur costs. This acceleration has only been discussed and not agreed – the implications of it will need to be fully costed. At present there was no allocation in the capital budget to the refurbishment of Exmouth Town Hall. …”
Extract from minutes of Overview and Scrutiny Committee 14 January 2015:
The Clinton Devon Estates’ Liverton Solar Park, was mentioned in a comment (copied below) recently left on the East Devon Watch blog. An observer has subsequently sent in these photos of the solar farm in question (which lies just outside the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) taken from the AONB, south of the B3178. The pictures may shed more light on the issue.
‘By coincidence, having driven past the solar farm at Liverton Farm and seen just what an impact on the ‘Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’ the solar park has, I have been looking again at the application (13/2202/MFUL) https://planning.eastdevon.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=externalDocuments&keyVal=MU6J9QGH3A000 made by the agents of Clinton Devon Estates.
It takes an enormous amount of plodding through, something still in progress, but it seems clear that , let’s say ‘ much of what was claimed is open to serious challenge’. Start with looking at what the CPRE had to say about some of Clinton Devon’s agent’s claims.
Not far away is Liverton Park 2, and industrial and business park complex adjacent to Liverton Park (1). It struck me that the massive sheds on Liverton Park 2 might well have had solar panels built into their roofs if CDE were really green for greens sake- but it seems not. But you do get a view of the solar panels from LP2!
The message seems clear, you cannot take a developer’s word. Check, check and check again. Oh, and see what subsidies the development attracts and wonder if that might be what makes solar panels the preferred choice when other more appropriate schemes may be better suited.’
Source: https://eastdevonwatch.org/2015/01/15/save-clyst-st-mary-campaign-new-proposals-and-important-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-9681
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