Once again, Monkleigh Primary School is the winner this year.   See the results here.

For a quick guide as to how to respond to a wind turbine Planning Application use this link. This link is the Wind Turbines list of issues piece In this piece is a link to Response to W. Devon

What are the costs and calculations for landowners considering Renewable Energy Projects? Read an NFU Brief here

CPRE SW Region is putting its archive from 2000 – 2013 on line here at CPRE Devon. Dip into this here

Both Marine and Terrestrial Planning will now concern all of us and overlap between Authorities in a completely new way, Read about it here.

CPRE National Office’s Housing Policy Guidance. Read these here

Wind Farms – Distance from housing Batsworthy Cross Decision CPRE – Brief on Growth & Infrastructure Bill Solar PV Guidelines for Cornwall SW Policy Guidance CPRE National Office’s Housing Policy Guidance Ash Die Back or Chalara is now a year old in England and is Public Tree Enemy Number One  Costs and calculations of renewable […]

It maybe next door in Cornwall, but see how the march of the wind turbine threatens our countryside!

The Government has presented us with a raft of complex changes to the planning system, many of which we feel are unhelpful. Just keeping pace with the “Localism Act”, the “National Planning Policy Framework” and now the “Growth & Infrastructure Bill” have threatened to overwhelm those of us trying to look after all that is […]

There are already over 1,500 acres of our Devon countryside converted to solar panels. The subsidies to the landowner make them hard to resist on financial grounds. However, the loss of good agricultural land for 20-25 years bodes ill for the countryside at a time when we have to import 40% of the food we […]