EDDC’s new Local Plan out for consultation

Posted on November 26, 2022

The latest stage of the new Local Plan can be found HERE.

Consultation runs from 7 November 2022 to 15 January 2023. This is your chance to have a say.

Public exhibitions: Where and when?

• Thursday 1 December, Axminster, Guildhall, 3pm – 7pm
• Thursday 15 December, Seaton, Gateway, 3pm – 7pm

Potential sites for development in Seaton are outlined as follows:

• Land at Barnards Hill Lane for around 40 dwellings. In order to ensure no adverse effect on the integrity of the Beer Quarry and Caves SAC, suitable avoidance/ mitigation/compensation measures will need to be identified. 
• Land to the south of Harepath Hill for around 70 dwellings. In order to ensure no adverse effect on the integrity of the Beer Quarry and Caves SAC, suitable avoidance/ mitigation/compensation measures will need to be identified. 
• Land off Harepath Road for around 100 dwellings and 2.2 hectares of employment land. The employment land is located in the field immediately north of the existing Harepath Road Industrial Estate. In order to ensure no adverse effect on the integrity of the Beer Quarry and Caves SAC, suitable avoidance/mitigation/compensation measures will need to be identified. 
• Land at Clay Common is allocated for around seven dwellings.

Seaton Hospital to be one of Devon’s new GP-led Covid vaccination centres

Posted on November 15, 2022

With this good news, and Citizens Advice moving to the Waffle House in the hospital, it feels as though we have finally secured its future in the near term.

But we still need to be vigilant – ‘selling public buildings’ is apparently one of Rishi Sunak’s austerity options.