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Tiverton Civic Society has nominated the Grand Western Canal Conservation Area for Civic Voice’s competition to find England’s Favourite Conservation Area for 2019. The shortlist will be announced on October 4th.
Under the auspices of Tiverton Town Council regular meetings are now being held between all major stakeholders to urgently discuss the complex issue of the restoration of flow to the Town Leat. Topics include land ownership, the costs of restoration and fundraising.
The appeal against the refusal of planning permission for the building of 50 houses at Exeter Hill, Tiverton, has been refused by the Planning Inspectorate.
Our next meeting in the Mayoralty Room will be at 7.30 pm on Tuesday, October 8th, when John Doble, mountaineer and former diplomat, will give a presentation on ‘From Africa to Everest and Tibet’.
An acclaimed new book has recently been published about a Tiverton family in WW2 ‘To War with the Walkers. Three Soldiers, the War Bride, the Nurse and a Doctor. One Family’s Extraordinary Story of Survival in the Second World War’ (Hodder) by Annabel Venning (2019). ‘Once read, never forgotten’ (Ysenda Graham in The Times). The Walker family lived at Tara, Belmont Road, Tiverton.
Please see the Recent News Page for information about a forthcoming Planning Application for 168 houses at Tidcombe Hall.
Please see the Recent News Page for information about a 20 minute discussion between Caro Bushnell and Jeremy Salter on TCR Radio. This is about the history of the Tiverton Leat and the urgent need to restore the flow.
Please see the Recent News Page for good news about ‘Telling our Stories: Finding our Roots – Devon’s Multicultural History’.
An online petition was set up by Caro Bushnell (TCR Radio) on June 2nd concerning the urgent need to restore flow to the Tiverton Town Leat http://chng.it/mbZQR7pKPP‘ ‘That is the link so do vote and share. The councils need to act now and update residents of progress.’ Please see the Recent News Page for further information.
Jo Mortimer’s picture of Exeleigh House, presented to this Society, reached the long list of the prestigious John Ruskin Prize, a notable achievement. For more information, please see the Recent News Page.
Following a decision by our committee Tiverton Civic Society has joined CPRE (The Campaign to Protect Rural England) as a corporate member. We have much in common with CPRE and we share many of their aims.
For information about Exeleigh House, and Jo Mortimer’s recently completed picture, please see the Recent News Page. We have for many years been very concerned about the condition of this locally important listed building which was built for John Heathcoat in about 1820..
Please see the Recent News Page for information about the Mid Devon Local Plan Inspection.
Please see the Recent News Page for information about Peter Maunder’s book ‘Tiverton Cloth’, which has now been published.
Please see the Applications, Consultations and Responses Page for the Planning Inspector’s response, following the Hearings in September, to the Eden Westwood proposals for Junction 27, as well as associated housing in Sampford Peverell and Tiverton. (Highlighted in red).
See the Recent News page for details of a podcast on Tiverton Community Radio during which there is a discussion about our 50th Anniversary and our entry of the Tiverton Conservation Area in the competition to find England’s Favourite Conservation Area.
Please see the Recent News Page for information about the Civic Voice competition to find England’s Favourite Conservation Area, together with the result.
Our new, revised, Merchants’ Trail leaflet is now available in the Tiverton Museum. Many thanks to Tiverton Town Council who provided the bulk of the funding._Merchant Trail leaflet ARTWORK 2018
Please see the Recent News Page for information about the floral display to mark our 50th anniversary.
Please see the Recent News Page for our statement about the new data protection regulations and for our Privacy Statement.
Please see the Recent News Page for uptdated information about the Town Leat.
Many thanks to Jo Mortimer, the distinguished Tiverton artist, for permitting us to use some of her paintings on this website. These emphasise and enhance the attractiveness of many of our buildings and townscapes. See the Listed Buildings and Scheduled Ancient Monuments Page and the Links Page.
Please see the Recent News Page for the MDDC Cabinet’s decisions about access to Area B of the Tiverton Eastern Urban Extension.
As a result of a contribution by this Society Historic England have highlighted Tiverton Conservation Area in their latest bulletin as one of six examples of ‘amazing conservation areas’ in England. Please see the Recent News and the Conservation Areas Pages.
A quote, from the Campaign to Protect Rural England: ‘The way housing targets are currently being set is fundamentally flawed and serving no one. Driven by aspiration rather than local need, housing targets are over-inflated and undeliverable.’ (24.4.17). ‘When numbers are all that matters, anything, anywhere, will do’. (Ptolemy Dean, 4.7.17).

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