Greater Exeter Strategic Plan for Exeter, East Devon, Mid Devon and Teignbridge and the plans for new housing >>> CPRE seminar with MP Hugo Swire: Friday 19th January

From 2009: in praise of suburbia:
Paul Barker: Let us treasure the suburbs, our landscape's string of pearls | The Independent

Or not... from North America 2005:

A Field Guide to Sprawl, Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles - Environment and Planning

And from Cruikshank in 1829: The March of Bricks and Mortar:

March of Bricks and Mortar | Environmental History | Oxford Academic

Wither, then, 'Greater Exeter Strategic Plan'?

Next Friday, the Campaign to Protect Rural England will be hosting a seminar:

New Housing and The Greater Exeter Strategic Plan – Seminar

Friday 19th January 2018. 10am-12.30pm. 

At The Gipsy Hill Hotel, Gipsy Hill Lane, Pinhoe, Exeter EX1 3RN

Guest speakers: 
Rt Hon Sir Hugo Swire MP; 
George Marshall, Greater Exeter Strategic Plan.

Please join us for this important opportunity to find out more about the Greater Exeter Strategic Plan for Exeter, East Devon, Mid Devon and Teignbridge and the plans for new housing.

All welcome. Places must be reserved – to book a place please contact us on 01392 966737 or email: director@cpredevon.org.uk

New Housing and The Greater Exeter Strategic Plan – Seminar | Protecting Devon & Planning Appplications
CPRE seminar 19/01/2018 10 am: New Housing and The Greater Exeter Strategic Plan – special guest: Hugo Swire | East Devon Watch

Here is the official website to the GESP:
The Greater Exeter Strategic Plan - A development plan for the future of the Greater Exeter area

Most of the responses to the Plan so far have been from developers:
Issues (Regulation 18) - Greater Exeter Strategic Plan

See also:
Futures Forum: Developers 'forcing' local councils to allow more housing... as long as its not affordable housing
Futures Forum: The picture of 'devolution' in the South West gets murkier
Futures Forum: Exeter, Devon and devolution: "We could welcome devolution – but only once you know what any benefits are."
Futures Forum: Greater Exeter and excluding citizens from 'a strategy for inclusive growth'
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