On Monday 9 September John Wright, renowned mycologist and wild food fanatic of River Cottage fame, will give a talk on wild foraging – what to see, where and when to find it and how best to cook it.
John will be joining the EDDC Countryside team at the Axe Estuary Wetlands from 6.30 to 8.30pm.
John has written three River Cottage foraging handbooks – Mushrooms, The Edible Seashore and Hedgerows. This autumn his fourth handbook, Booze will be released. He is passionate about making beer, wine and other boozy treats from all sorts of ingredients to be found growing wild in...
Plans to change the face of Exmouth seafront for residents, visitors and businesses alike have been formally put forward for consideration.
Elements of a new £10 million ‘Queen’s Drive Leisure Zone’ could include a Waterports Centre, a large indoor and outdoor play and recreation area, retail areas, a public square and parking for over 200 cars.
East Devon District Council has submitted the planning application following months of study and preparation, including a public consultation which gathered views from over 500 local people and organisations.
It's that time of year again! EDDC’s Countryside team kick off their annual Wet ’n’ Wild Summer Festival at 8pm on Thursday evening 15 August with Meet the Bats.
The Axe Estuary Wetlands is known as an excellent habitat for bats; more than half of our 17 native species of bat have been found there, including the rarest of our natives; the grey long-eared bat.
Visitors will have the opportunity to learn to use an electronic bat detector to identify the different species. The Meet the Bats session will be repeated on Friday evening 16 August at 8pm.
East Devon District Council and Devon County Council have worked together again to put the sum of £1.10 per elector into a ‘Parishes Together Fund’ grants scheme that Town and Parish Councils can apply for. The overall pot of cash available amounts to nearly £115,000.
The funding is available to Town and Parish Councils working together and involving the community to try and solve local issues. All applications must be submitted jointly from two or more parishes. Money could be used for anything from permanent items to events, networks and one-off costs. The deadline for the first...
Local children and parents came along to the East Devon District Council (EDDC) Family Fun Day at Ash Hill Play Park in Beer on Monday 29 July.
As part of the day the £17,500 improvements to the play area were officially opened. The Chairman of Beer Parish Council, Martin Richards, cut the ribbon and declared the enhanced play area open and ready for fun.
The new equipment in the play area was chosen by local children and consists of a new basket swing, a spinning item, climbing frame and wooden amphitheatre style seating. In addition to the new equipment children were able...
The summer holidays got off to a ‘flying’ start for local youngsters when EDDC’s Countryside Team joined other local organisations with a rural theme at the annual Natural Seaton Festival.
The event was organised by the Seaton Visitor Centre Trust to celebrate the geological and ecological wealth of the town.
The first EDDC Countryside event of the weekend was Meet the Bats led by Fiona Mathews, Senior Lecturer in Mammalian Biology at Exeter University. Eleven of our 15 native species of bat have been recorded on the Axe Estuary Wetlands in Seaton, and electronic bat...
Plans for supporting homeless people in East Devon will not be amended to include new hotel accommodation in Exmouth, it was confirmed this week.
With numbers of homeless people housed in B&Bs at historically low levels anyway, EDDC bosses have rubbished allegations that the town’s new Premier Inn is being lined up to use for such a purpose.
NONSENSE
"Claims that plans are afoot for EDDC to ask Premier Inn to help house the homeless are fanciful nonsense," said Cllr Jill Elson, EDDC Cabinet Member for Sustainable Homes and Communities. "We have certainly not...
East Devon District Council are inviting all young residents of Cranbrook to choose the new play equipment for Cranbrook’s first play area.
The finished open space, which should include a play area for children of early school age, a play area for older children and a multi use games area designed for young people up to the age of 18, provides a wonderful opportunity for the community to have a real say in how their now town is shaping up.
Cllr Iain Chubb, East Devon District Council Portfolio Holder for Environment said: “There is a lovely community spirit at Cranbrook...
It's going to be quite a summer for some of the projects that together make up the Seaton Regeneration Programme, with substantial progress on the horizon.
Meanwhile, plans are also under way to consult in the town about providing more council-owned employment units. Together, the projects represent a real vote of confidence in boosting Seaton’s economy and employment prospects in the town.
On Tuesday 11 June, a revised planning application for the Discovery Centre building was approved by EDDC’s Development Management Committee. The principle of planning permission for the...
An unusually busy agenda at an East Devon planning meeting has seen several decisions made about major planning applications and issues in the district.
The meeting on Tuesday 11 June (which lasted for 11 hours) took in 16 applcations and reports on the Validation of Planning Applicaitons and Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL), discussing a fresh round of consultation on the council’s updated plans for charging developers per home they build, with money going towards infrastructure and community facilities.
With several high profile applications on the agenda the meeting...
