A very Happy New Year to all our members, supporters, friends and everybody who loves our Devon countryside! We have a real fight on our hands to try to protect our precious countryside, green spaces and landscapes which we all value and enjoy, but which continue to be  under constant threat from inappropriate development throughout […]

Grateful thanks to Neil Parish MP, John Sheaves ‘Taste of the West’ and Andrew Butler from NFU for joining us at our seminar at Kentisbeare village hall on Saturday, greatly enjoyed by over 100 people.  And to our own energy expert, Dr Phillip Bratby, who explained on farm anaerobic digestion. Lots of lively debate, a […]

CPRE Devon representatives attended the public exhibition held at the village hall, 3rd August 2015, regarding the application to build a 24 acre solar farm on agricultural land at Bridgerule, near Holsworthy

Our East Devon District Group have worked closely with local residents opposing this proposal for a large solar farm adjacent to Crealy Park. We are pleased that the Planning Inspector has dismissed this appeal, primarily because it is Grade 2 and 3a agricultural land.  We need farmland for food production, not power stations!  Lets Keep […]

At Bilsford, Buckland Brewer (47m high turbine)  and Eastwood Farm, Peters Marland (77m high turbine)

All members are invited to attend our 50th Annual General Meeting, which  is being held this year on Wednesday 1st July 2015, at 3.30pm. Venue Old Heathcoat School Community Centre, 81 King Street, Tiverton.    We are delighted that our guest speaker will be Martin Hesp, Editor-at-Large, Western Morning News. Please do join us and help […]

The World’s first tidal lagoon has been given the go ahead 9th June 2015 https://www.gov.uk/government/news/swansea-bay-tidal-lagoon-project-gets-green-light-on-planning See thoughts on the proposal by Dr Philip Bratby  at http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2015/6/9/the-proposed-swansea-bay-tidal-lagoon.html

We have decided that after many years of the same format we need to modernise the competition. So we will be relaunching the competition for next year, 2016, and there will not be a Devon Best Kept Village competition this year.  We will advise all villages later this year, particularly of course those who have […]