Just before Christmas and the New Year, the District Council published some “minor changes” to the AIDPD.   This has slipped into the public domain and past most of us ( your webmaster was away until earlier this month) including a member directly affected without his being notified.  In the minor changes, something nasty has emerged […]

There is concern over the future use of this one time church in West Exe.  Unfortunately the planning officer has taken the mistaken view that it is the last ‘lawful use’ which is relevant and ignores the legal doctrine of ‘abandonment’ by intervening use.    On this basis any remnants of a house on, say, Exmoor could […]

HISTORIC TIVERTON/  Listed Buildings 
 INTRODUCTION
 Tiverton has a long history, with the town’s name first recorded in King Alfred’s will (written about 880 AD).   There, the name was ‘Twyfiride’, meaning ‘two-fords’, later expanded to ‘two-ford-town’ – Tiverton.  Until recently, the standard History of Tiverton was by Martin Dunsford, published in 1790.  In 2004 a new History […]