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 […]

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Monkleigh Primary School win most of the top prizes in the CPRE Pam Parker Map Competition for 2012 Nell Gierke, Zeb Champion and Pippa Clark were worthy winners of prizes this year See close-ups of the winning maps here… Pippa Clark won a special prize for her “Bike Ride to School”, 4 miles in 50 minutes […]

This planning application, in the wake of the decision to build a massive incinerator in the Devonport dockyard, never made any sense in waste management terms. There was no use for the massive amounts of heat generated by the plant, there is not enough waste being generated locally to feed this beast, requiring VIRIDOR to […]

This has been quite a year for Devon’s villages, Diamond Jubilee Celebrations to organize, often leaving a permanent legacy in the form of gates, clocks and large stones and some quite terrible weather to contend with. Talaton, Newton St Cyres and South Pool were worthy winners with Thurlestone, Cheriton Bishop and East & West Worlington […]

There were 52 individual entrants this year, though from a smaller number of schools. There were only 9 maps from south of Dartmoor and none from East Devon. However, one school, Monkleigh Primary, managed to scoop both the first prizes for the individual award and for the school producing the highest quality and most useful […]

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