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News from Teignbridge – Massive development at Wolborough Barton given the go ahead

Unfortunately, the Court of Appeal has rejected the arguments put forward by Abbotskerswell Parish Council, and ruled that the huge development of 1,200 houses at…

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News from East Devon – industrial scale fertiliser lagoon permitted. June 2021

We were dismayed and disappointed that East Devon District Council’s planning committee have given the go ahead to this massive proposal at Upton Pyne. There…

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News from Mid Devon – Housing proposal refused. June 2021

We are delighted that the application for 179 new houses at Tidcombe Hall, Tiverton was unanimously refused by Mid Devon District Council Planning Committee, in…

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News from North Devon – Yelland Quay Development Rejected – 9th June 2021

North Devon District Council planning committee today overwhelmingly voted to refuse the application to build 250 premium houses and apartments on the bank of The…

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Solar Farms – a Toxic Blot on Devon’s precious landscape

Our new video in which TV star John Nettles lambasts the solar farms threatening to ruin Devon’s countryside is OUT NOW, coinciding with a MailOnline…

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Yelland Quay – May 2021

The controversial planning application to build 250 luxury houses on the beautiful Taw Estuary in North Devon will be decided at the North Devon District…

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John Nettles OBE spearheading our campaign against solar farms in Devon’s countryside

We are enormously grateful to TV star John Nettles for his support and spearheading our campaign against proposals for ever-larger solar farms that threaten to…

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News from Torbay – Inglewood Permitted – May 2021

We are bitterly disappointed that this massive development of 373 new houses has been permitted by a planning inspector, despite all the overwhelming local opposition….

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News from North Devon – Litchardon Cross Solar Farm and Redevelopment of the Former Yelland Power Station Site – 28th April 2021

Two massive and controversial planning applications were on the agenda for the North Devon District Council Planning Committee, 28th April. After a four and a…

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