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Thanks for giving us the Gordon Hook link though.

Just making the point in any and every way I can.

Good!!And I'm sure many would be grateful if you could keep us up to date on that particular issue. And talking of keeping people up to date. Are there minutes of these meetings and if so how can they be accessed online?

29 Nov 2014

Well let's see how it all pans out then. For starters it could make 'noises' about Warren Farm NOT being turned into a SANGS!

click here for the walks http://therivieraline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Walks-from-Riviera-Line_2_web.pdf note that one of them is encouraging people to visit Dawlish Warren NNR ................... !

Final bit (for the time being) of me venting my spleen on all this planning and localism nonsense. I saw this about 18 months ago. Can't remember where now so can't give its source.  It is a slightly edited version of the original. "Neighbourhood planning has been made a formal part of the planning system under the NPPF, and it allows local communities to plan for specific additional ...

29 Nov 2014

Ah! Now perhaps this is what localism is all about? (Provided of course that whatever the group suggests complies with European and UK National planning regulations and Plan Teignbridge!) http://www.teignbridge.gov.uk/article/21268/Neighbourhood-Plan-for-Dawlish---260914 I understand that the incentive to draw up one of these Neighbourhood Plans is that  communities that do so ...

Yes, if you click on that link in my third posting above that is what it also says.

28 Nov 2014

Okay here is an example of how the planners (and planning committee councillors) hands are tied. This government passed new planning legislation back in 2012 I think it was. Within this new planning legislation was a requirement that all local authorites had to formulate a Local Plan. If no Local Plan, and again this is stated within this 2012 Westminster legislation, then there would be a ...

28 Nov 2014

Oh and on the question of rental housing don't forget that if the tenant is needing to claim housing benefit in order to pay the rent then we, the taxpayers, pay that housing benefit and in doing so we just help make those landlords richer and richer. Aren't we a kind and generous lot?