The Knowledge
www.eastdevon.gov.uk 22 July 2016 Issue 10 2016/2017
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Meetings
Please note meetings shaded pink are NOT open to the public
Meeting DSO Date Time Location
‣ Licensing & Enforcement Sub Committee DV Wednesday 27 July 09:30 Committee Room
Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) –
training for Town & Parish Councils
DV
Wednesday 27 July
14:30-
16:00
Council Chamber
‣ COUNCIL HW Wednesday 27 July 18:30 Council Chamber
Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) –
training for Town & Parish Councils
DV
Thursday 28 July
19:00-
20:30
Council Chamber
‣ Development Management Committee HW Tuesday 2 August 10:00 Council Chamber
Licensing & Enforcement Sub Committee CL Wednesday 3 August 09:30 NOT REQUIRED
Portfolio Holder - Corporate Business
Think Tank
Thursday 4 August 17:00 Room 1
Scrutiny Committee DM Thursday 4 August 18:00 CANCELLED
In the press
Rise in roadworks at night will ease jams
More roadworks will be carried out at night under plans
to charge utility companies up to £2,500 a day to dig up
major highways at peak times. The Government wants
to extend so-called “lane rental” powers – which
incentivise work during quiet periods – across the
country following a successful trial in London East and Devon Kent profile
which led to a 42% reduction in congestion around
roadworks. The pilot saw the average length of time
companies spent on each work site at peak times drop from nearly four days to under three
days.
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‣ Infrastructure 'still faces flooding risk'
Britain's roads, bridges, railways, hospitals, electricity,
gas, water and internet remain at risk from floods, a
government review will admit. The BBC understands it
will say some services – such as electricity – are
increasingly protected from extreme rains but others -
like telecoms - lag behind. The review was prompted by
December's floods in the North of England. It is
expected to be published in late summer, along with
the Government's progress towards a 25-year environmental masterplan for the UK.
Minutes
Standards Committee
‣ 19 July 2016
EDDC news
‣ Read the latest news
‣ East Devon Leader
describes green light for Lidl
as “an enormous boost for
growth and confidence”
‣ Consultation deadline
reminder for street trading
rule changes
‣ Council considers remarketing
Exmouth’s
Queen’s Drive site
‣ Extent of conservation
value of Pebblebed Heaths
revealed
‣ Seaton’s horizon framed
by giant waves
‣ Positive public response
to Sidmouth BMP shortlist
options consultation
‣ Car clocking ban called for by councils
A proposed EU ban on companies who provide mileage "correction" services for cars should
be made UK law and brought forward, the LGA says.
Figures showed incidents of clocking - when a car's
mileage dashboard display is decreased - rose by 10%
between March and October last year. The LGA also
wants mileage correction devices to be banned. An
existing legal loophole means it is not illegal to alter a
car's mileage, but it is fraudulent to knowingly sell a
clocked car without disclosing that its odometer has been adjusted. Adjusting the mileage
can artificially increase car prices as well as hide serious mechanical problems on vehicles.
Cllr Simon Blackburn, Chair of the LGA's Safer and Stronger Communities Board, said: "With
up to 1.7 million clocked and potentially dangerous vehicles on UK roads, anyone buying a
second-hand car should make as many checks as they can to ensure that the vehicle is
showing its true mileage. Clocking is harming both reputable used car dealers and
consumers, and unless the proposed EU ban on mileage correction services is brought
forward and made part of UK law, thousands more cars will continue to be clocked over the
next two years, jeopardising the safety of cars on UK roads."
‣ Forgotten’ Forces veterans feel let down by country, says charity
‣ Starbucks 'to bring in recyclable cups'
Research by Armed Forces charity SSAFA into younger veterans
aged 16-64 has found a “forgotten generation” of former
servicemen and women are living in fear of debt, and feel let
down by their country. The charity says potentially vulnerable
servicemen and women should have welfare screening before
leaving the forces, as well as a government-funded mentoring
scheme to support veterans in their first year after they leave
service.
Starbucks is to trial a British-made coffee cup which can be recycled. The
US company has responded to concerns that as many as 2.5 billion
disposable cups are dumped in landfill or incinerated every year in the
UK.
‣ Government urged to ban energy drink sales for under-16s over health
concerns
The sale of energy drinks to children under 16 should be banned following studies
linking them to a range of health complaints and risky behaviours, according to a
report by the Food Research Collaboration. Sales of energy drinks in the UK
increased by 155% between 2006 and 2014, from 235 to 600 million litres.
Civic engagements
Sunday 24 July
Sedgemoor District Council’s
Civic Service, St Marys
Church, Wedmore
Buzzard in flight
Photo by Peter Vernon
Town & Parish websites
‣ All Saints
‣ Awliscombe
‣ Axminster
‣ Aylesbeare
‣ Beer
‣ Branscombe
‣ Broadclyst
‣ Broadhembury
‣ Budleigh Salterton
‣ Chardstock
‣ Clyst Honiton
‣ Clyst St Mary
‣ Cranbrook
‣ Dunkeswell
‣ Exmouth
‣ Farringdon
‣ Feniton
‣ Gittisham
‣ Honiton
‣ Luppitt
‣ Lympstone
‣ Kilmington
‣ Musbury
‣ Newton Poppleford
‣ Northleigh
‣ Otterton
‣ Ottery St Mary
‣ Payhembury
‣ Plymtree
‣ Rockbeare
‣ Seaton
‣ Sidmouth
‣ Stoke Canon
‣ Talaton
‣ Uplyme
‣ Upottery
‣ Upton Pyne
‣ Woodbury
Legacy to landscape
Wednesday 27 July
8pm to late
Wild about Moths
Bolshayne Farm
Celebrate National Moth week
and get close up to these
amazing but much
misunderstood cousins of the
butterflies. Booking essential.
legacytolandscape@gmail.com
or ring 01404 310012
What’s on
‣ Thelma Hulbert Gallery
‣ Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth
‣ Exmouth Pavilion
‣ The Gateway, Seaton
‣ Seaton Visitor Centre
‣ The Beehive, Honiton
‣ Countryside events
‣ Town & Parish contacts
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Axmouth – taken from a field at the top of Whitwell Lane, Colyford; Colyton Grammar School buildings
in foreground. Photo by Peter Vernon
Summer holiday
family workshops
Sat 20 Aug
Drop in anytime
between 11am and 3pm
Come and print with
leaves with countryside
ranger Penny Evans –
if it’s sunny we’ll be in
the garden!
Fri 26 Aug
Drop in anytime
between 11am and 3pm
Join countryside
ranger Penny Evans to
create your very own
creatures with beads
made out of elder
Sat 27 Aug
Drop in anytime
between 11am and 3pm
Join artist-led
workshop with Monica
Shanta Brown, using
painting, drawing
and collage.
Free drop in activities, no booking required. Absolutely no
experience needed, any age welcome! Children must be
accompanied by a responsible adult. Suggested donation £2/child.
01404 45006
info@thelmahulbert.com
thelmahulbert.com
Thelma Hulbert Gallery,
Elmfield House Dowell St,
Honiton, EX14 1LX
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