Author Michael Morpurgo has opposed plans to build a 251ft (77m) wind turbine in the idyllic Devon valley which provides the rural backdrop to his book, War Horse. Campaigners in the area have already complained that a rash of such renewable energy projects could destroy the nascent tourist industry which has grown up around the […]

The region’s landscape is coming under increasing pressure because of the Government’s “misguided” planning policies, it is claimed. Countryside campaigners have already called for a Parliamentary inquiry into national planning policies as concerns have grown about the threat of development. Bob Barfoot, chairman of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) in North Devon, said targets […]