Category: News

Garden City plan to double the size of Exeter and Taunton

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Garden-City-plan-double-size-Exeter-Taunton/story-22883683-detail/story.html

huge solar farm planned near Barnstaple

http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/Solar-farm-near-Barnstaple-power-2-200-homes/story-22869351-detail/story.html

Solar farms are industrialisation of the countryside

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Mass-industrialisation-countryside-warning-solar/story-22859884-detail/story.html

‘Farmland is no place for solar farms’ – North Devon Journal 1st sept 2014

http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/Solar-farm-Bucks-Mills-went-plans-committe-says/story-22858661-detail/story.html

Its time to halt the march of solar farms

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/WMN-opinion-Time-halt-march-black-plastic-solar/story-22791044-detail/story.html

Wind power output in south west reported

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Record-wind-power-output-meets-33-cent-South-West/story-22784275-detail/story.html

Keep our Pastures Green

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Rural-campaigners-solar-farms-crackdown/story-22788959-detail/story.html

Devon’s Best Kept Village Competition 2014 – Results

We are pleased to announce the results for this year’s CPRE Devon’s ​​Best Kept Village Competition. Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to…

2 more wind turbines allowed at appeal in Torridge

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/CPRE-disappointed-successful-wind-turbine-appeals/story-22718848-detail/story.html

Largest wind farm in Torridge, Hollow Panson, nr Ashwater – application withdrawn

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Energy-company-withdraws-application-West-Devon/story-22338852-detail/story.html

No Minister. We do not want our fields to be full of houses. WMN 9th August 2014

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Minister-want-fields-houses/story-22300866-detail/story.html

Planning application for largest wind farm in Torridge district is withdrawn

EDF have written to Torridge District Council to formally withdraw their current planning application for a wind farm comprising 6 x 115m high wind turbines,…

Region under threat as building in the countryside is easier than ever

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Region-threat-building-countryside-easier/story-22044503-detail/story.html

Totnes encircled by development

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Totnes-mercy-loophole-lets-bulldozers/story-21947803-detail/story.html

West Devon Borough Council Plans Committee unanimously refuse Hatherleigh Wind Turbine Today

77m wind turbine at Heane Farm refused by planning committee today.  Local residents from Hatherleigh and surrounds gathered outside the Council offices in Tavistock. 29th…

Inspector approves another turbine as it will ‘form a cluster’

http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/Halsdon-Barton-turbine-approved-planning/story-21746880-detail/story.html

A Devon Farmer’s Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4zHOeLgyYw

Planning Inspectors dismiss 6 appeals in Devon for wind and solar

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/wind-farms-allowed-appeal-new-figures/story-21644820-detail/story.html

Mobile Phone coverage and National Parks

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/mobile-phone-story/story-21457653-detail/story.html

Tavistock faces new application for yet another housing development

Only days after an application to build 110 new houses outside the settlement boundary was rejected by the Planning Committee, another application has been made…

‘No more solar farms on green fields’ – BBC Website 11th July 2014

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-28251192

‘War Horse Country’ wind turbine appeal dismissed – north devon journal 10th July 2014

http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/War-Horse-country-wind-turbine-application/story-21447412-detail/story.html