Around 800 businesses across East Devon can still benefit from a scheme offering rate relief of up to £1,000 for the next two years. But time is running out to sign up to the scheme.
The initiative, adopted by East Devon District Council, is designed to give local retail businesses of a rateable value of less than £50,000 a chance to compete on a more level playing field with internet retailers.
Businesses to benefit include shops, post offices, restaurants, cafes, pubs and garden centres.
Councillor David Cox, EDDC Cabinet Member for Finance, said: “A £1,000...
Rural communities in East Devon could see up to £5,000 of funding from the district council to build or improve village halls and community shops.
The grants can be used to help refurbish, improve or even build village halls, community shops and community buildings in rural areas (those in towns are not eligible). EDDC Councillor David Cox, who sits on the grant decision-making panel, said: “In our rural areas, halls and community buildings are often at the very heart of the village and may be the only communal facility available to residents.
Residents of Seaton are being invited by EDDC and Seaton Town Council to choose how they would spend £82,000 available for sports provision.
The project(s) with the most votes will be delivered.
You can vote at the Seaton Town Council Community Fun Day: Jubilee Gardens, Seaton – the area infront of the clock tower that has recently been refurbished at the corner of Castle Hill and Sea Hill.
The date will be Saturday 12th April and the times between 11am and 3pm.
Apart from the voting you can go along to enjoy the community fun day with free circus skills,...
Young people from Honiton have now chosen a second £90,000 design for their skate park at voting events held by East Devon District Council. A second round of voting was called by the council after the 1st choice company, voted for in December last year, was unable to fulfil their contract. A significant number of Young people took part in the three voting events to pick another design with 58% picking the new design by skate park design company Maverick. EDDC will now work with Maverick to get this design installed and opened as early as possible using £90,000 from EDDC’s main budget. The...
Communities around East Devon are about to see an extra cash injection after parish and town councils successfully bid for over £150,000 of fresh funding.
In total, £155,558 will be placed in the district’s ‘Parishes Together Fund’ after East Devon District Council and Devon County Council worked together to raise the sum equal to £1.10 per elector. Projects including the Ottery Food Bank, the Cranbrook Community fund, the Axminster mental health organisation known as ‘The Project’ as well as several primary schools in the area are among the projects to benefit from the funding....
Government Inspector Anthony Thickett starts his 19-day hearing sessions of the public examination of the Draft Local Plan 2006-26 submitted by East Devon District Council on Tuesday, 11 February.
Full details of the programme, showing the dates and subject matter of each session, are available on the programme officer’s website at http://www.eastdevon.gov.uk/progofficer
Proceedings will last for just under one month and in that time the Inspector will hear evidence from the council, community organisations, protest groups and landowners and developers in the district....
East Devon District Council is considering relocating its headquarters to Skypark.
The decision, taken by cabinet on 5 February, will now be put forward as the preferred location to full council on 26 February. If approved, officers will be asked to carry out further research into the viability of the move. Marketing of Knowle would start promptly.
This is an important step forward and a further report would then be brought back to cabinet and full council before a final decision is made in the summer.
Back in November cabinet shortlisted four out of 15 possible...
A suspected unexploded bomb found in Exmouth has put emergency repair work on hold while bomb disposal teams approach the “mystery canister”.
Eight workers from Eastr Devon District council were on the seafront near the boating lake helping to dismantle an ice cream hut that was in danger of being washed out to sea and becoming a danger to shipping.
When the canister was spotted, Coastguard officers were called and they decided to enforce a 30-metre exclusion zone, which mean that work on the hut had to be suspended until Bomb Disposal officers from Plymouth reached the...
£90,000 is to be spent on improvements to the skate park in Honiton after young people in East Devon voted for the project.
113 young people in the area voted for the new design for their skate park at three voting events held by East Devon District Council (EDDC). They got to vote on which one of four designs they wanted installed, the winner with 88% of all votes was Option D, a design from 1Skateparks. EDDC will now work with 1Skateparks to get this design installed and opened by early summer 2014. The £90,000 has come from EDDC’s main budget and is being spent on Honiton skate...
