Category: News
2 more wind turbines proposed for North Devon dismissed at appeal by planning inspectors
At Bilsford, Buckland Brewer (47m high turbine) and Eastwood Farm, Peters Marland (77m high turbine)
CPRE report highlights benefits of reopening railway
http://www.okehampton-today.co.uk/news.cfm?id=37962&searchWord=cpre&searchYear=current
Another solar farm on green fields permitted in Devon
http://www.middevongazette.co.uk/Giant-solar-scheme-wins-approval-planning/story-26767506-detail/story.html
CPRE Devon AGM – 1st July 2015
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…
Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon given planning consent
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…
CPRE Devon Best Kept Village Competition
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…
Shock as Torridge Wind Turbine appeal decision is quashed by High Court Judge
4th Feb 2015 http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Second-chance-wind-turbine-bid/story-25972997-detail/story.html
CPRE North Devon Seminar, Goodleigh, near Barnstaple with Sir Nick Harvey MP 28th Nov 2014
Goodleigh village hall was packed this morning for our seminar with special guest speaker, Sir Nick Harvey MP for North Devon. Dr Philip Bratby, our…
‘A Warning From the West’ – CPRE Devon article
Written for CPRE Protect Kent magazine. 2014 CPRE Kent Voice article
Britain needs political climate change to cut soaring energy bills
Article by Charles Moore in The Daily Telegraph, Friday 17 October.
CPRE Devon Village Map Competition for Schools – 2014 Results!
The results are in for our Pam Parker village map competition for schools. A record entry this year from schools right across Devon. Congratulations to…
Our countryside in 2014 – seen from a hot air balloon!
An amazing experience, but the landscape is now littered with wind turbines and solar farms. The balloon took off from near North Petherwin, nr Launceston,…
Parents in West Country fear children will not be able to afford to live in home towns
http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Fears-children-locked-home-towns/story-22956195-detail/story.html
Announcement
At short notice, I’ve been selected to stand as a Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for next year’s General Election. A once in a lifetime opportunity I…
The safety of Wind Turbines
http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Safety-fears-faults-toppled-turbines/story-22887067-detail/story.html
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