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I've just read an article on Devonlive concerning a village in east Devon and its housing situation. Someone has posted a comment at the bottom of the article which I reproduce here. " In Devon we suffer from one of the highest number of second homes in the country and a large number, for which I cannot at the moment find statistics, of holiday lets. This has been made worse over the Covid ...

Ukraine
Lynne
Lynne
28 Feb 2022

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27 Feb 2022

@Carer - cut back on the housing development? Different circumstances = different priorities? The lawn might even be turned into one big veg patch (Sorry for the flippancy but it's the effect Vlad the Mad has had on me  - he's now threatening the world with nukes). ,

Carer
Carer
27 Feb 2022

@Lynne All very well but there is so much farmland now earmarked for housing and solar power, so where are we going to plant more crops?

Lynne
Lynne
27 Feb 2022

Doesn't all this show just how much we need to be as self sufficient as we possibly can be? An increase in UK based food production (ie farming) and energy production come immediately to mind. All those necessary things that we import from abroad could be cut off. What then?

Teignpot
Teignpot
26 Feb 2022

So much in common with Johnson. No wonder Putin funds him.

Carer
Carer
25 Feb 2022

Frightening. Putin is a bully and the biggest threat to world peace. He is NOT interested in diplomacy and only interested in what HE thinks is right.

Paul
Paul
25 Feb 2022

What is the end result?

THERE will be a Housing Crisis Street Stall on Saturday, February 26, between 10.30am and 12.30pm outside the Co-op in the Strand, Dawlish. Read more,,, https://www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/article.cfm?id=122284&headline=A%20housing%20crisis%20street%20stall%20will%20be%20in%20town%20this%20weekend&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2022

How sad and how irresponsible of the dog owner to allow this. Thanks for posting.