Firstly, thank you to everyone that has offered to help in any way they can in the face of the current COVID-19 outbreak. The Newton Abbot response has been unbelievable! We know many of you are keen to help but have found it difficult to find out how best to do so. Councillors also are […]

A Message from Highway Management at DCC – As you will know we are being presented by exceptional challenges and Devon County Council will play a critical role in responding to Covid19.  Our teams in Highway Management and across the Authority will be essential in helping our communities through this challenge. These teams will need […]

As promised in our election manifesto we have now organised for all votes in Planning and other major committees to be recorded and made available for any/everyone to see. This was agreed at a recent meeting of the Constitution Review Group and is dependent on the technology working (here’s hoping!) The votes of all members […]

Housing is a hot topic. For many, what seems like an imposition of vast expanses of bland housing indistinguishable from housing we might see any where else in the country has generated growing anger. For others the search for a decent house they can afford seems an ever diminishing dream. Then of course there are […]

One of the Lib Dem’s top manifesto commitments was to deliver more “genuinely affordable housing” and to build on brownfield sites . I’m pleased to report that our first social rented housing schemes are about to be delivered. This week the Planning Committee at Teignbridge District Council unanimously passed a planning application for 5 social […]

Exeter Rd between Newton Abbot and Kingsteignton will be closed from Monday Feb 24th for a maximum of 5 days, between the hours of 9am and 3.30pm. This is to enable the rebuilding of a damaged section of parapet wall and general maintenance works. The section is between the Teigngrace turning and the railway line.

We are compelled by government to build a certain number of houses per year in Teignbridge. How as a District do we match that imposition from government, with our District target to be carbon neutral by 2025 and the urgent need to address the climate emergency? For some time now, some of the public have […]

Double yellow lines, as requested by residents have been approved by DCC, at the entrance to Orleigh Cross estate, Broadlands Avenue junction with HIghweek Rd, Barton Drive junction with Manor Road, Ashburton Rd junction with Mapleton Close and Wain Lane junction with Highweek Rd. These are all to stop inappropriate parking at junctions to maintain […]

Globally, nationally and locally, 2019 will be remembered for amongst other things, the term “Climate emergency” not only becoming common parlance and a headline for many news stories but also becoming the subject of Declarations by many Council’s across the country. Whether it’s news of Australian fires, our own warmest decade on record or more […]

Devon County Council has launched a new set of Community Grants which aim: To help local people connect with each other and their wider community. To shift more control of local decisions to communities. To challenge inequality where it exists for people and communities. To do things differently in communities. Each year the council will […]