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On 10 July at East Devon District Council’s Cabinet meeting, Councillors will consider how clean growth can be achieved in the west end of the district.

Cabinet will meet [LINK] to consider a long-standing plan to achieve zero carbon development in Cranbrook and the surrounding area, including the Exeter and East Devon Enterprise Zone.

The strategy for zero carbon growth has been in place since plans for Cranbrook were first agreed with a district heating network. Now future plans must be considered as a major milestone of 2000 homes in Cranbrook is reached.

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A proposal to sell part of a city park to create access for vehicles at a proposed new housing development is set to be ruled out by the City Council.

Exeter Homes Trust had requested that the council sells a section of Bull Meadow Park to create a turning point for cars to access new homes as part of the proposed £9m redevelopment of Fairpark Almshouses.

The Council previously announced it was considering a request to sell the freehold of 130 square metres of land to the developer, subject to a successful planning application for the development at the bottom of Magdalen...

An animal welfare campaigner who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash has been awarded a posthumous RSPCA Honours award for her work creating a safer world for animals.

Joanna was the first British woman to be named as a victim of the tragedy in which 157 people died in March this year.

The 36-year-old from Exmouth who worked for the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations had an unwavering passion for animal protection and received many nominations for the RSPCA Honours award, including from her colleague and friend Claire Bass, Executive Director of the...

Christow resident Pamela Woods has been elected chair of Dartmoor National Park Authority.

Her deputy, farmer Peter Harper, is also from the Teign Valley.

The appointments were made on Friday 14 June at the authority’s annual general meeting held at Parke, Bovey Tracey.

Ms Woods, a management consultant, has lived in the valley for almost three decades and served on the authority, in different guises, for five years.

She is the first woman to take the chair and succeeds Bill Hitchins who has stood down after 20 years’ membership, eight of those in the chair...