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The view looking north from a Whimple orchard across the Clyst Valley Regional Park. Image EDD.)

Agreed £1.1million East Devon country park funding comes weeks after concerns amid the spend ‘does not represent good value’ for the district council

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By on East Devon, Exeter, Farming, News

An East Devon countryside park will now receive £1.1million funding after the authority agreed to back the project just weeks after it was told spending the cash might not represent good value for the district council. Plans to back an East Devon nature reserve with a £1.1 million cash injection have been backed again after an initial decision was revisited, writes local democracy reporter Bradley Gerrard. Backing had already been given to plough £1 million into an investment fund to help provide an annual income to cover the costs of maintaining Clyst Meadows Countryside Park. A further £100,000 had also…

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Community news from across East Devon and Exeter.
Community news from across East Devon and Exeter.

Community news in brief from across East Devon and Exeter – including Exmouth, Axminster, Cranbrook, Sidmouth, Honiton, Seaton

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By on Axminster, East Devon, Exeter, Exmouth, Farming, Honiton, News, Sidmouth

Community news in brief from across East Devon and Exeter. Send your local news, photos, what’s on, to newsdesk@eastdevonnews.co.uk Seaton These photos show how Storm Goretti battered a bus stop in Seaton, amid high stormy seas and gale force winds. Beer Coastguard Rescue Team was on January 8 tasked to the seafront during the worst of the weather amid concerns storm watchers were too close to the breaking waves. The rescue team gave safety advice to night-time bystanders watching waves during the storm. A Beer Coastguard Rescue Team spokesperson said: “We stayed until after high tide and the wind turning…

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Critics of a decision to set up a £1 million fund for a vital East Devon nature reserve has forced the authority to reconsider the move. Images: EDDC.

‘Concerns were raised that spending this money does not represent good value for East Devon District Council’ – spotlight falls on £1.1million country park funding

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By on East Devon, Farming, News

‘Concerns were raised that spending this money does not represent good value for East Devon District Council’ – a £1.1million fund ring-fenced for a country park is to be re-examined. Critics of a decision to set up a £1 million fund for a vital Devon nature reserve have forced a Devon council to reconsider the move, writes local democracy reporter Bradley Gerrard. A total of £1.1 million was secured to help set up a 10-hectare country park in East Devon, with the idea being that the cash would be invested and the returns used to support annual maintenance costs. The…

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Cllr Jess Bailey said: “I became aware that trees were about to be felled, so I rushed down to the site." Photo: Jess Bailey.

‘Horrified’ East Devon councillor’s emergency dash to save ‘healthy trees’ from being felled near Ottery St Mary

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By on East Devon, Farming, News, Ottery St Mary

‘I was absolutely horrified by what I saw when I arrived’ – an East Devon councillor has told of her emergency dash to save ‘healthy trees’ from being felled near Ottery St Mary. A dramatic bid to halt the felling of some mature trees in an East Devon town has led to an emergency protection order being issued, writes local democracy reporter Bradley Gerrard. Councillor Jess Bailey said she was alerted to work that had just occurred to significantly reduce a mature hedgerow, and that moves were about to be undertaken to fell what she classed as “healthy trees” on…

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“Fortunately, I was sitting down” – Spotlight falls on ‘deplorably slow’ East Devon broadband after £60k cost to connect one home

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By on Business, East Devon, Farming, News, Ottery St Mary

Connecting one home to broadband in an East Devon village could cost up to £60,000, sparking the authority to lobby the government to tackle the district’s ‘deplorably slow’ connectivity. The cost of connecting just one home to broadband in a rural area of Devon could cost around £60,000, it has emerged at a debate about pushing for better internet connectivity, writes local democracy reporter Bradley Gerrard. Members of East Devon District Council heard from one of their own about the astronomical cost of potentially linking their home to fibre broadband amid a debate about pushing for better digital connectivity for…

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Roosting rare bats could scupper affordable homes planned for a village in East Devon

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By on East Devon, Farming, News, Ottery St Mary, Property

Rare bats said to roost in woodland near an East Devon village could scupper development plans to build new homes, some affordable. A regionally important bat roost could be among the reasons a proposed development of nine homes in East Devon fails to get the go-ahead, writes local democracy reporter Bradley Gerrard. Planners considering the scheme for nine properties – four of which would be affordable – opted to recommend the plan be rejected, partly due to the impact on important wildlife in the area. East Devon District Council’s planning committee visited the site at West Hayes, in West Hill,…

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Plans have been lodged to turn what is technically still a residential dining room at Stentwood Farm in Dunkeswell, near Honiton, into a more official setting.
Images: L to R: stock image/Google Street View.

East Devon spiritual community’s bid to turn its honesty diner into a tea room

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By on Business, East Devon, Farming, Honiton, News

A spiritual community with an honesty diner in East Devon is hoping to turn it into a tea room and charge set prices. A Devon community is seeking to turn its food and drink venue into a formal restaurant and tea room, writes local democracy reporter Bradley Gerrard. Plans have been lodged to turn what is technically still a residential dining room at Stentwood Farm in Dunkeswell, near Honiton, into a more official setting. Stentwood Farm is home to a religious community of families and single people that have lived there since 1998. Since 2012, the community has used the…

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Community news from across East Devon and Exeter – including Exmouth, Budleigh Salterton, Seaton, Axminster, Beer, Poltimore, Cranbrook, Colaton Raleigh

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By on Axminster, Beer, Budleigh Salterton, East Devon, Exeter, Exmouth, Farming, News, Seaton

Community news from across East Devon and Exeter – including crime news and police appeals, photos, plus what’s on from Exmouth, Budleigh Salterton, Seaton, Axminster, Beer, Poltimore, Cranbrook, Colaton Raleigh. Exmouth A pair of neighbours in Exmouth have been jailed after they got ‘sucked into the drugs culture’, a court has heard. Friends Tom Sellick and Ayden Barrier, of Nursery Mews, Withycombe Raleigh, spent months dealing in cocaine to fund their habit after they became addicted to the class A drug. A judge sitting at Exeter Crown Court earlier this month told the pair their dealing was a ‘lucrative operation’.…

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Top, the proposed development. Image: EDDC. Bottom L to R, the council debates the plans, photo: Bradley Gerrard/LDRS. Stock image.

East Devon family ‘devastated’ after planners refuse kids’ cooking classroom and school meals depot amid countryside concerns

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By on Business, East Devon, Exeter, Exmouth, Farming, News

Plans for a family-run kids’ cooking classroom and school meals depot in East Devon, creating around 100 jobs, have been refused by district planners amid concerns it would impact the countryside. The Devon family behind a major proposal to build an educational facility and distribution centre have said they are “devastated” after planners narrowly rejected the scheme, writes local democracy reporter Bradley Gerrard. Goosemoor wanted to develop a site that would have provided a classroom where children could learn about the provenance of their food and cook meals, as well as open space where crops would have been grown to…

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Pictured here is traffic at Clyst St Mary. Photo: Save Clyst St Mary Residents’ Association.

‘The community does not want to lose any of these precious community facilities’ – East Devon village urges council planners to protect rural life

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By on East Devon, Exeter, Farming, News

Residents in East Devon have called on district planners to protect their rural village against urban sprawl amid fears overdevelopment will prompt a loss of ‘precious community facilities’. Residents of a Devon village have moved to try and protect the “rural setting” of their homes and called for community spaces to be protected, writes local democracy reporter Bradley Gerrard. Clyst St Mary, on the edge of Exeter, has created a new local plan with its neighbour, Sowton, that has been approved in a local referendum and which will act as a guide in terms of what development is acceptable there.…

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