After some wearisome days spent in the Town Hall sitting around tables, the Hearing sessions into the Allocations and Infrastructure Development Plan Document are finished.   The new rules laid down for the modern local plan inquiry indicate that a plan (now called a Development Plan Document-DPD), when it is submitted for an Inspector’s examination, has […]

The Secretary of State has now received the Boundary Committee for England’s advice upon the future possibilities for local government in Devon, keeping Torbay and Plymouth as Unitary authorities.  The Society opted for the Devon Unitary authority approach and is pleased to note this is the preferred advisory option.  Representations are asked on the outcome […]

The Society has expressed its views on the proposals initially promoted by Exeter City Council to break Devon up into unitary authorities.  This would give autonomy to Exeter similar to that arguably enjoyed by Plymouth and Torbay and put a further onus on the rest of the County to work out its own solutions.  Small […]

Readers of this website will know that the Society has deplored and despaired at what has gone on at the Town Hall or Angel Hill Project site.  Something always seems amiss when Councils are judges and juries in their own cases and act inexplicably.   They should act even handed and be most punctilious in observing their […]