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Rural broadband: good news or wishful thinking – but may depend on your fairy lights,

At long last, small businesses and farms in rural Devon may have been cheered by the BBC Radio interview this morning with CEO of Ofcom, Sharon White. She seemed to suggest that maintaining the status quo on rural broadband rollout is unlikely.

She’s also quoted here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-3340726/Fairy-lights-slow-broadband–Ofcom.html

and in other newspapers with strong criticism of BT Openreach.

For constant news updates on Broadband for Rural Devon & Somerset (B4rds), see http://b4rds.org/news.html

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30 Nov 2015

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Devon has 243 miles of roads with no mobile phone coverage

Fifth worst after areas of the Scottish highlands and islands, parts of Cumbria and parts of Wales.

This means that if you break down or have an accident on those roads, you have no way of getting in contact with the outside world.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34957796

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27 Nov 2015

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Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership – in their own words

This is the unelected and unaccountable body that wants to run Devon and Somerset

http://www.heartofswlep.co.uk/

and this is what it wants to do:

“Our ambition is to maximise our area’s assets and inspire innovation and entrepreneurship to create long-term economic growth. We want to see our urban centres fulfil their capacity for growth whilst ensuring that our rural areas flourish through enterprise and improved competitiveness.”

This is their ” vision” for our area:

http://www.heartofswlep.co.uk/current-priorities

This is what it is currently spending our money on:

http://www.heartofswlep.co.uk/current-activities

These are the unelected people running it:

http://www.heartofswlep.co.uk/chief-executive-and-non-executive-directors

including our own Paul Diviani, who will be in charge of housing for Devon and Somerset if this comes off (hope you won’t be needing a Devon and Somerset Local Plan guys) and Andrew Leadbetter (DCC councillor in charge of the rural broadband omnishambles).

Most of their current money (around £65m) has already been pledged to their favoured projects and most of the leg-work of who does what appears to have been pretty much sorted out.

Makes the East Devon Business Forum look like nursery school! Oh look, it has its own Business Forum:

http://www.heartofswlep.co.uk/heart-south-west-business-forum

Time to re-read “Brave New World” and “1984” Owl thinks!

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24 Nov 2015

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Broadband omnishambles – campaigner and DCC spokesperson on Radio Devon tomorrow am

Graham Long of B4 RDS will be on the BBC Radio Devon Simon Bates show tomorrow morning (Weds 25 Nov, from 7.30am)talking about broadband. After him, they will interview Cllr Andrew Leadbetter of Devon County Council (DCC). DCC are responsible for the work of Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS).

DCC and EDDC and other Devon district councils not working together has been cited as one reason for Devon and Somerset rural broadband losing out on funding that could have been applied for.

It will be interesting to hear Councillor Leadbetter explain his way out of this one as Mr Long os way more experienced about these matters than Mr Leadbetter seems to be.

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23 Nov 2015

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Broadband for Devon and Somerset – the (fantasy?) saga continues

As we said before, if Devon and Somerset can’t work together on this, how on earth can they hope to work together successfully on anything else? And DEFINITELY things here for DCC’s Scrutiny Committee!

Press Release from Graham Long
Chairman, B4RDS (Broadband for Rural Devon & Somerset)

This open letter has been emailed (November 22nd), to all Devon & Somerset MP’s, from B4RDS (Broadband for Rural Devon & Somerset), prior to an MP’s meeting in Westminster, Nov 25.

Dear Member of Parliament,

Open letter to all Devon & Somerset MP’s concerning Connecting Devon & Somerset (CDS).

It is my understanding that Keri Denton and CDS Board Members Cllr Andrew Leadbetter plus others will be meeting with Devon & Somerset MP’s on or about Wednesday Nov 25th in Westminster.

You will be told how well the CDS broadband programme is going and be encouraged to secure more money for CDS. You will also be enlisted to help them get special EU State Aid (GBER) approval because of their failure to meet the June 30 umbrella state aid deadline .

THIS PROGRAMME IS OUT OF CONTROL. The attached two B4RDS press releases will give you the background.

Questions you need to ask CDS and CDS Board members are:

1) Why did Keri Denton say “How long is a piece of string?” when asked what the current Phase 2 programme schedule is by the DCC Place Scrutiny Committee on Nov 16? Devon & Somerset are now THE ONLY counties in England not to have a Phase 2 contract in place after they abandoned negotiations with BT in June and then missing the June 30 deadline for EU State Aid approval. CDS are currently unable to give DCC Scrutiny a firm schedule for when they will have a Phase 2 programme in place outside of the two National Parks.

2) Will Phase 2 be completed by the end of 2017? Cameron, Vaizey and Whittingdale have all committed to 95% superfast broadband coverage, nationally, by the end of 2017. There is now a snowballs chance in hell of that deadline being met in Devon & Somerset. On Nov 16, Keri Denton told DCC Scrutiny that she hoped to have Phase 2 in place by the end of 2016. This will mean that having spent two years trying to find suppliers they will give the companies awarded Phase 2 contracts, only 12 months to complete the project. This will not be achieved.

3) Why have CDS & DCC not secured committed Phase 2 match funding from Devon District Councils? When Phase 2 negotiations with BT collapsed in June 2015, CDS was only offering BT £35M for a contract that BDUK estimated would cost £41M to deliver, as shown on the BDUK website. For DCC & SCC to claim that negotiations collapsed because BT was not offering value for money is at best disingenuous and at worst a lie. (After deducting the £4.6M National Parks Airband contract from the fully matched £45.5M [=2x£22.75M] BDUK allocation, £40.9M should have been available to BT, not £35M). Each Somerset District Council committed an average of £500k each but not one Devon District Council committed a penny. As a result the project has stalled. Somerset District Councils now have a seat on the CDS Board as a result, but Devon District Councils remain unrepresented. County and District Councils in every county in the UK have managed to work together on this, with the exception of Devon! Devon & Somerset’s “Devolution Statement of Intent” (Slide 6) has the gall to describe the CDS programme as one of the two counties successes!

4) Why have CDS not obtained any Phase 1 clawback monies from BT? In July the government announced that a total of £129M in clawback payments were being paid back by BT to county run broadband programmes. Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire and Cambridgshire have already obtained £5.3M, £3.9M, £1.1M and £5.3M respectively in clawback payments from BT. CDS is the largest county run such programme in England and to date has obtained nothing in clawback from BT, which Keri Denton confirmed to DCC Scrutiny on Nov 16. Based on NAO and PAC reports during 2013 & 2014, it is calculated that CDS is due over £9M from BT which can be claimed in advance of reaching the 20% threshold, provided it is reinvested with BT. This is enough to connect another 60,000 properties under Phase 1. In response to the Nov 16 Scrutiny Committee, Keri Denton says that BT have offered to pay back £4.5M to CDS but she then said she did not know how the money was calculated! She must know how it is calculated! – It is in the Phase 1 BT/CDS contract! Even more worrying, the CDS Board Action notes of October 6 (attached – see highlighted text) state that the Board decided not to claim clawback from Phase 1 until after a Phase 2 contract is secured at the end of 2016. WHY? In September, Cllr Andrew Leadbetter told DCC Scrutiny that CDS could do a better job now they do not have the June 30 state aid approval deadline to work to! Do they not understand that people in rural communities are desperate for fast broadband NOW. If there is more money to expand Phase 1 coverage now, why wait until the end of 2016 to claim it? DCMS have shown that the ROI on superfast broadband investment is 20. On HS2, it is 1.7. Investment in broadband is a no-brainer!

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18 Nov 2015

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Has your MP signed today’s letter to George Osborne?

Critics say rural broadband in Devon is in dire straits, partly because EDDC failed to work together with DCC to get maximum funding.

Now more than 100 MPs concerned about lack of broadband investment in their own areas have written to George Osborne, as detailed in this extract from the Broadband for Rural Devon and Somerset (B4RDS) Facebook page:

‘Over 100 MP’s of all parties have today taken an open letter to George Osborne calling for him to invest in fixed and mobile broadband. This is before next Wednesday’s announcement of the Autumn spending cuts. If your MP hasn’t signed you should ask him/her why not.’

Link to the letter, and names of MP’s who’ve signed, is here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/fast.rural.broadband/

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17 Nov 2015

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If Devon can’t work with Devon on broadband – whither a bigger Devon and Somerset merger?

Press Release from
B4RDS (Broadband for Rural Devon & Somerset)

Asked when Devon & Somerset might have a 95% minimum coverage, Phase 2, superfast broadband programme up and running, during the Nov 16 DCC Place Scrutiny Committee hearing, all that Ms Keri Denton, Programme Director for Connecting Devon & Somerset (CDS) could reply was: “How long is a piece of string”.

This follows the failure of CDS to secure a Phase 2 supplier for rural Devon & Somerset in June 2015, by when all other UK Counties had put their Phase 2 programmes in place. Only Devon & Somerset now remain without a 95% programme in place meaning that rural properties could now be waiting many more years before their broadband speeds improve.

It was also confirmed during the Scrutiny Committee hearing that the reason CDS failed to agree a Phase 2 contract with BT in June was because not one District Council in Devon was prepared to commit the match funding that CDS needed to draw down £22.75M from central government for the programme, although every District Council in Somerset had committed their match funding contributions. The failure of Devon County and District Councils to work together on this means that not only Devon’s rural taxpayers, but also those in Somerset, have now scheduled date for when their broadband service, often with speeds below 2Mbps might improve. Having committed match funding, Somerset Districts now have their own board representative on the CDS Project Board from which Devon Districts remain excluded. With many Scrutiny Committee members being District as well as County Councillors, Ms Denton asked for their help to get Devon Districts into the programme.

The current best estimate as to how long a piece of string may be seems to be July 2016, which will be over a year after all other UK Counties secured their Phase 2 funding and got the project underway. Government ministers still talk about all the UK having 95% superfast (>24Mbps) coverage by the end of 2017, but by July 2016, CDS will have spent two and a half years trying to put a Phase 2 contract in place and next July they will only give the chosen suppliers 18 months to deliver the project. The end of 2017 now looks like a target that will be missed.

While Devon County and District Councils continue to fail to work with each other on Superfast broadband, businesses prepare to more out of rural areas to the towns because they cannot keep their website shop windows up to date at 2Mbps and rural houses become impossible to sell when prospective buyers learn they will get no more than 2Mbps from their ISP’s.

Note to Editors:
A webcast of the Nov 16 Place Scrutiny Committee hearing is on line at
http://www.devoncc.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/178939 (Move slider to 2.40.30 in)

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13 Nov 2015

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“Broadband a question of haves and havenots”, Councillor Twiss told EDDC Scrutiny.

Report sent to East Devon Watch:

‘More ‘best practice’ was evident at EDDC Scrutiny Committee at Knowle yesterday evening (12/11/2015). From the start, Chair Roger Giles (Independent, Ottery St Mary) insisted that presentations should be brief and not include the reading out of information that had been circulated to councillors in advance. Using questions and answers was a more useful tool for this committee , he advised.
This proved correct straightaway, in the close examination of Devon’s broadband provision. Five stakeholders had been called to speak and answer questions. They were Andrew Moulding, Chair of Devon County Council’s (DCC) Place Scrutiny Committee and Deputy Leader of East Devon District Council (EDDC); Cllr Phil Twiss, EDDC Corporate Services portfolio holder; Paul Coles, BT Regional Manager, South West ; Phil Roberts, Programme Manager for superfast broadband delivery, Connecting Devon & Somerset (CDS) ; and Graham Long, Upottery Parish Councillor, with 20 years’ experience with Hewlett Packard, for whom he ran the EU support network.

Questions included one sent, in her absence, from Cllr Susie Bond (Independent, Feniton & Buckerell), asking why the broadband situation in parts of her constituency was “appalling”. Particularly intense questioning came from Cllrs Marianne Rixson (Independent, Sidmouth Sidford Ward ) , and Val Ranger (Independent, Newton Poppleford & Harpford),who had clearly done their homework, both closely referring to the document submitted by CDS, and finding some apparent inaccuracies (e.g. Could the audit done by EDDC’s internal auditors, SWAP, properly be described as ‘independent’?). Cllr Ranger wondered why, of 26 interested parties in 2014, only two had submitted a formal tender.
Phil Roberts (CDS) reported that CDS had decided not to sign a second contact with BT, and that there would now be a different approach to tendering . For the next phase, CDS were currently looking at other providers , as well as talking to BT, he said.

Much of the time, Cllrs Moulding and Twiss looked uncomfortably out of their depth, not least when it emerged that EDDC and DCC had not worked together to obtain maximum funding, thereby missing out on millions of pounds.

Graham Long, “astonished to find how slow broadband is in Devon”, explained that “Fibre is best for reliability, speed and bandwidth. But fibre-to-cabinet works as an urbancentric solution. It doesn’t work in rural areas”. Cllr Ben Ingham (Independent, Woodbury & Lympstone) told the Committee, “I’m really flabbergasted that BT are picking the poor relation of technology”.

The broadband issue is certain to continue. Next Monday DCC’s Place Scrutiny Committee will hear CDS feedback on its recommendations (14h00, County Hall, Exeter). More questions and answers are no doubt being prepared!’

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Lib Dems appoint ” rural tsar” and target slow broadband

… Among the areas the Welsh MP believes to have been neglected under Conservative rule are community sustainability and digital connectivity. He says that despite many farmers and small businesses relying on broadband for their survival, speeds in Devon and Somerset, as well as other rural parts of Britain, are still too slow.

“The contrast between Devon and Somerset and Cornwall was quite startling,” he says. “The speeds were something like 80-90% in Cornwall, slipping down to 40% or 28% in Somerton and Frome, 42% in North Devon.

“We know these are challenges but these are economies that are dependent on that.”

Although he has already drawn up a list of priorities -incuding cuts to tourism VAT – Mr Williams says the results of the comprehensive spending review will be the true test of the Government’s commitment to rural communities. He joins fellow Lib Dems in predicting Defra funding will take a big hit.

“I just hope there isn’t a caricature that all is rosy in the proverbial garden of England, because that isn’t the case,” he says. “There is a lot of hardship, and there is still the blight of rural deprivation in large parts of Britain that needs to be addressed – and Defra has a role in doing that.

“That’s why our party is seeking and developing a strong rural narrative.”

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/EXCLUSIVE-Defra-failing-deliver-rural-communities/story-28020394-detail/story.html

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Mobile phone not-spot? Not for Dave!

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/New-phone-mast-solve-David-Cameron-s-mobile-spot/story-27800130-detail/story.html

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“BT hasn’t put the money into broadband because it hasn’t been forced to …”

… “A big contract in Devon and Somerset collapsed in June because BT’s “best offer” didn’t match the council’s need for 95% coverage. So who else will step up? For now, nobody. Does BT lose out? No. It doesn’t have an incentive to add more, despite any pent-up demand.” …

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/14/bt-broadband-fibre-optic-slow-speeds

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DCC wants “more transparency” about broadband not-spots

“Devon County Council scrutiny committee conducted an investigation in the Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) superfast scheme. …

… The meeting saw councillors issue a number of recommendations for CDS, including for an open market tender for phase two of the roll out, the publication of frequent progress reports and an ethos “greater openness and transparency”.

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Ministers-confirm-plans-universal-service/story-27774783-detail/story.html

Good luck with that!

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3 Sep 2015

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£300,000 new phone mast for David Cameron’s Cornish hideaway

The rural business people attempting to get better broadband coverage might well be advised to buy David Cameron a Devon hideaway – broadband might follow VERY quickly!

“DAVID Cameron is splashing £300,000 of taxpayers’ cash on a mast so that he can get better mobile coverage at his favourite holiday resort. The Prime Minister is reportedly annoyed at the lack of signal at the remote Polzeath in Cornwall where he and his wife Sam regularly go surfing.

… Outraged locals have slammed the “appalling” proposals, that will benefit just 74 homes. The mast can provide reception for up to five miles around. Local resident Mark Crowdy branded the replacement an “eyesore” and said it “is a terrible idea”.

Shadow Culture Secretary Chris Bryan blasted the Conservatives over the proposals, accusing them of double standards because they are falling short of their £150million pledge to get nationwide coverage.

He said: “Every day thousands of people have to live and work without phone signal because this Government can’t get its act together to sort it. Instead they’re spending taxpayers’ money so the PM can get phone signal on holiday.”

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/602641/David-Cameron-Phone-Mast-Polzeath-Cornwall-Samantha-Cameron-Chris-Bryan-Mark-Crowdy

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Rural broadband campaigners will be allowed to speak at DCC scrutiny meeting but transparency is a gift not a right according to Councillor Moulding

Amazing what a little adverse publicity and pointing out of hypocrisy can do:

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Public-invited-speak-council-broadband-scrutiny/story-27723281-detail/story.html

The Owl takes some credit for this change of mind after pointing out that Councillor Moulding did not practise what he preached:

https://eastdevonwatch.org/2015/08/27/businesses-without-broadband-not-allowed-to-give-evidence-to-dcc-scrutiny-committee-which-is-chaired-by-councillor-andrew-moulding

But we still have to point out that the right for the public to speak is being touted as a special and generous gift from said Councillor when, in fact, he, and DCC should be highly embarrassed by the fact that normally the public can’t address a SCRUTINY committee!

Anyone see the problem here – that the only people allowed to scrutinise the council are the councillors themselves and that the Scrutiny Committee is chaired by a majority party councillor, against accepted guidelines that the Chair should be from a minority party! It was touted thus by Councillor Moulding:

“It is not common practice for the public to give evidence at council scrutiny meetings, so the decision by chairman councillor Andrew Moulding marks a break from tradition.”

and thus by the Vice-Chair:

“I have always favoured public involvement and very much welcome this change of heart,” he said. “Openness and transparency are vital ingredients of any democratic process”.

The moral of this story? If you want transparency, you have to fight for it, it isn’t your right it is their privilege to grant it to you.

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Businesses without broadband not allowed to give evidence to DCC Scrutiny Committee which is chaired by Councillor Andrew Moulding

Remind yourself, when you read this article, that Councillor Moulding said the following about consultation when Axminster Hospital’s beds were threatened:

“At a well attended meeting to discuss progress in the fight to maintain in-patient beds at Axminster hospital, Cllr Andrew Moulding (wearing both his Town and County councillor hats) spoke to concerned residents about his representations to the Devon CC Health and Wellbeing OSC. He made clear his feelings on the matter to the OSC and stated that his only job as a Councillor was to convey the feelings, views, anger and frustration of Axminster people over the shameful way in which the CCG and NDHT had conducted themselves, with misleading figures, loaded and biased consultations and the heavy-handed (and expensive) use of lawyers to force a decision through…

https://eastdevonwatch.org/2015/01/30/to-a-louse-with-particular-reference-to-councillor-moulding-axminster-hospital-and-knowle-relocation/

Whereas here, he seems to have totally forgotten what he said:

Business leaders have spoken of their disappointment and “frustration” that the pleas of thousands of local companies to give evidence in a pending broadband inquiry have not yet been acknowledged.

Members of Devon County Council’s scrutiny committee are due to hold a meeting to discuss handling of the Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) superfast broadband programme next week.

Officials initially decided to invite only those close to the programme to give evidence – which sparked a campaign by residents and businesses to include external witnesses.

Organisations representing 19,500 firms across the two counties issued an open letter to the committee, urging it to reconsider its decision. But the newly published agenda for the meeting reveals arrangements currently remain the same.

Graham Long, chairman of the Broadband for Rural Devon and Somerset action group, said the inquiry threatened to become a “whitewash” if only those involved in the roll-out scheme are allowed to speak.

“Rural businesses and residents cannot plan their future with the uncertainty that now exists around their broadband service, and the scrutiny committee should hear from the organisations that have added their names to the open letter,” he said.

“The failure to secure a phase two contract means that Devon and Somerset are now the only English counties without a programme to provide a minimum of 95% superfast coverage.

“This is now an urgent issue and the digital apartheid that exists between the towns and cities where fast broadband is ubiquitous and rural areas where it is almost non-existent cannot be allowed to continue.”

The committee scheduled a “special” meeting for September 3 following the collapse of negotiations between CDS and BT for delivery of phase two of the Government’s superfast scheme.

The only individuals listed to give evidence on the formal agenda are representatives of BDUK, CDS and BT, members of the council, local MPs and the broadband provider Airband.

The open letter, submitted to last week, warns councillors this approach “will not produce a fair examination of the programme” and calls for affected businesses and residents to be heard. Signatories include the Devon and Somerset branches of the Federation of Small Businesses, the NFU, the Country Land and Business Association and the Blackdown Hills Business Association.

Development manager for Devon FSB, Sue Wilkinson, described the situation as “frustrating”. “It’s disappointing for our members and all businesses in Devon and Somerset that chance for us to have a fair hearing and to make our very valid points has been lost,” she said.

The chairman of the committee, Conservative councillor Andrew Moulding was unavailable to comment yesterday. However, vice chairman and Liberal Democrat councillor Gordon Hook said he believed residents should be free to “question and probe” the issue.

A council spokesman said a decision on whether or not to take representations from the public would be made when coun. Moulding was available.

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Businesses-ongoing-frustration-exclusion-council/story-27689551-detail/story.html

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22 Aug 2015

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Changes to neighbourhood plan procedures

The Government is to make it easier for villages to establish neighbourhood plans and allocate land for new homes, ministers have announced.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, and the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Elizabeth Truss, said this would include the use of rural exception sites to deliver ‘Starter Homes’.

A ten-point plan aimed at boosting rural productivity said: “Through the right combination of measures, the government wants to ensure that any village in England has the freedom to expand in an incremental way, subject to local agreement.”

Other proposals in the plan include:

In the current bidding round for Enterprise Zones, which closes on 18 September, preference will be given to proposals involving smaller towns, districts and rural areas;

A government review will be undertaken of planning and regulatory constraints facing rural businesses and measures that can be taken to address them by 2016;

A fast-track planning certificate process will be introduced for establishing the principle of development for minor development proposals;

Encouragement will be given to further proposals from local areas for devolution of powers “in return for strong and accountable local governance”;

Permitted development rights will be extended to taller mobile masts subject to conclusions from the Call for Evidence which closes on 21 August 2015;

There will be fairer funding for schools, including those in rural areas. “It will turn inadequate schools into academies and focus efforts to support school improvement in underperforming rural areas.”

The document, Towards a one nation economy: A 10-point plan for boosting productivity in rural areas, can be viewed here.

http://www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=24138:ministers-to-make-it-easier-for-villages-to-establish-neighbourhood-plans&catid=63&Itemid=31