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Policy Guidance Material

Wind Farms – Distance from housing Batsworthy Cross Decision CPRE – Brief on Growth & Infrastructure Bill Solar PV Guidelines for Cornwall SW Policy Guidance…

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Wind turbines threaten our countryside

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

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Planning Reform Proposals

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…

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Solar Farms. A “Come-in-Handy” Poster for you

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…

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Newsletter Spring 2013

Read our newsletter for Spring 2013

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Monkleigh Primary School Scoop Top Prizes

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…

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Devon County Council turns down a planning application

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…

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Best kept village 2012 results

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…

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Pam Parker Map Competition 2012 results

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…

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