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This is our 10th year as Exminster residents and 32nd year in Devon. We were very active members of EVAG in efforts to stop the Midas Milbury Farm development and attended the original application decision by TDC to reject and the later Appeal whereby the Planning Inspector favoured in respect of Midas to grant planning permission. We were marginally successful by forming the Liason Group in influenecing some aspects of the final Midas proposals for Milbury Farm but even so the ‘proof of the pudding will be in the eating’ and much still rests on the diligence of the TDC planning department in dealing with the details in a satisfactory manner.
The Bellway proposal at Sentrys Orchard will be yet another nail in the coffin in the heart of Exminster if planning is granted and merely illustrates the ‘crest of a wave’ on which developers are now riding to push through relentessly their desires to ruin villages such as ours.
TDC most also bear considerable responsibilty in not getting their act over a number of years together to produce a satsifactory local plan for housing development which has left villages such as Exminster very vunerable to developers with their officers in all departments fearing any planning application now submitted. It seems that Exminster has been considered the dumping ground for further development within the TDC area. Even if the initial application is refused it is almost certain that Bellway will use the Appeal process to get their way. How under such processes are we ever going to satisfy local democracy. Developers with agreements under Section 106 which in most cases are not even possible to rationally deliver whereby it becomes impossible to logistically improve road access, educational and medical needs of the residents not to mention environmental impact of over development.
Even our MP seems powerless to influence planning matters on a local level and it seems that the whole system needs considerable overhaul.
I wish everyone involved success in stopping this development too far but I must say that after our fight to prevent Milbury Farm I remain somewhat pessimistic as to a satisfactory outcome.