Futures Forum: East Devon Local Plan >>> Sidford business park to remain
There has already been considerable reaction on-line:
Inspector includes Sidford business park in Local Plan - News - Sidmouth Herald
And serious questions are being asked:
Will Sidmouth, and East Devon, remain ‘an outstanding place’, with EDDC’s Local Plan? | Save Our Sidmouth
With the EDW blog asking several more:
Another push-me pull-you situation: Sidford Fields Industrial Estate | East Devon Watch
What is ” countryside”? What is “sustainability”. | East Devon Watch
BREAKING NEWS: Diviani says Local Plan sound – BUT Inspector rewrites it with nearly 200 major changes! | East Devon Watch
There has been a lot of traffic on the Streetlife pages:
Local Plan - Sidmouth Housing
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I see that the Inspector has allocated 125 new dwellings for Sidmouth through to end of 2031. As Pegasus want to build 126 dwellings on Knowle we won't need the allocation of 20 for Manstone site and more importantly the 30 for Eastern Town. Also the proposed 50 bed care home provision for Knowle is either unneccesary or can be offset against the houses - so a care home and 76 dwellings at Knowle and Sidmouth is set for 16 years.
Oh - despite Stuart Hughes's pronouncement, the Sidford Business park is still in the plan!
Oh - despite Stuart Hughes's pronouncement, the Sidford Business park is still in the plan!
Streetlife | Local Plan - Sidmouth Housing
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Business parks should be put in areas of land that offer nothing special yet on a regular bus route for people to commute to rather than rely on cars to get them there, on route to Exeter in our case.Additionally, in these times of economic restrictions imposed by the government, is this the right time to think about building a business park which may have empty rental spaces for years to come. Yes, this will be joy to builders, electricians, plumbers etc who will earn significant sums in building it but then to have thiseyesore on our doorstep that is half empty, and in an area prone to flooding,will not. It will probably increase the risk of flooding to Sidford by having a huge swath of land on a hillside covered with concrete just before it.
I suggest that the land on the opposite and near to the Bowd is a more appropriate place to put it, one of two places I am thinking of is where the man during the summer makes his wooden sculptures. It is en route to Exeter and has a regular bus service and traffic lights could be put in to allow a safer flow of traffic to the site and other areas. A pedestrian aspect within the traffic lights could be incorporated so that people could go to the pub for their business lunches maybe.
The plan is not written by the inspector, it is checked and approved etc
Am I right?
RS the Manstone and Port Royal allocations are indeed still there as is the 50 allocation for Knowle - what we need to know from EDDC is what happens to Manstone and PR if the proposed 126 at Knowle are built - surely once we reach our total allocation then no more are needed? Or can the council exceed it?