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BBC News
3 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
Future of Great Torrington is under the spotlight
A meeting in a North Devon town will help determine its Torrington shop owners, businesses and community groups are invited to hear about its strategy, branding and meeting will be led by Great Torrington Regeneration Board, a team from Devon County Council, Torridge District Council and Great Torrington Town Cloke, mayor of Great Torrington, said: "Great Torrington, like so many towns across the UK, needs us all to contribute. 'Great opportunity' "Businesses, clubs and individuals can all make a huge difference to the success of the town," he added. He said the regeneration board had a "clear set of priorities", while the event would give the community and businesses a "great opportunity" to get of their work has included a rebranded website which the board said would make it easier "for the community to use and promote themselves to a keen audience".The new events page would be used to create a robust marketing plan designed to promote the area and attract new business and visitors to the town," it meeting will also highlight updates to the Pannier Market, while the new Tarka the Otter Trail will also feature, organisers who want to attend the meeting on 3 June are asked to email great-torrington@ as places are end of day 30 May.
BBC News
21-05-2025
- BBC News
North Devon's dog control zones extended in parks and beaches
A campaign to reduce the number of "nuisance incidents" involving dogs has been District Council has voted to renew the Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) for another three years. Under the updated rules, dogs will be banned in some control zones, while in others they must be kept on a were first introduced in north Devon in April 2022. Since then, the council said it has responded to 138 incidents involving dangerous dogs, 246 reports of dog fouling, 234 barking dog complaints and 117 stray dog also agreed dogs should be kept on leads all year round in Victoria Park, Bideford and Westward Ho! Park, adjacent to Park View Terrace. The same rules apply from 1 May to 30 September annually on Westward Ho! Promenade. Dogs will also be banned from the designated Blue Flag area of Westward Ho! beach between 1 May and 30 September each year, and permanently excluded from the enclosed tennis and sports area in Westward Ho! Philip Hackett said: "The extension of the PSPO offers a pragmatic, proportionate and enforceable response to anti-social behaviours and nuisance issues associated with dog control in Torridge. "The PSPO is a valuable tool that provides clear boundaries for dog owners, along with the deterrent of the fixed penalty or further legal action. "For the majority of breaches, it also gives the council a relatively simple way to proceed where there is sufficient evidence that an offence has been committed in the restricted area."
BBC News
19-05-2025
- Automotive
- BBC News
Council in Devon begins switch from diesel vehicles to electric
Torridge District Council has added three electric vehicles to its fleet to replace diesel of the vehicles will be used by its estates team for routine maintenance tasks and to help with the running of the pannier third van will be used by the Northam Burrows rangers to be used at volunteering events and while they are managing the natural landscape of the country Peter Hames, Torridge District Council's lead member for climate change, said: "We will be actively looking to replace further diesel vehicles with electric, as and where appropriate, when they come up for review." He added: "It was an easy decision to invest in electric vehicles. "Not only are there long-term cost savings, but this will contribute to our on-going efforts to be carbon neutral by 2030."The vehicles are to be based at Riverbank House in Bideford, where electricity generated from the solar panels on the roof office building will be used to recharge the vans' batteries.
BBC News
23-04-2025
- General
- BBC News
Row over plans for historic Appledore boat site
A multi-millionaire with one of the biggest collections in the world of World War Two memorabilia wants to build a new home in Devon for historic Wheatcroft said he wanted to renovate the historic Richmond Dock in the village of Appledore into a home for boats including the S130 - the last remaining German wartime boat of its kind in the local people have opposed the plans, claiming the Grade II listed dry dock was an important community asset that should be open to Town Council has voted against the project which would ultimately be decided by the planning committee of Torridge District Council. Mr Wheatcroft is the owner of the Wheatcroft Collection which brings together about 200 items from World War Two, including tanks and other military S-130 was one of the German fast attack vessels known as schnellboots which had a range of up to 700 miles (1,126km) and a crew of was used as a torpedo boat and was one of the vessels involved in an attack in April 1944 off the south Devon coast in which 800 people was being restored in Cornwall. Mr Wheatcroft said the new dry dock facility would also be home to a 1901 steam launch, a Royal Navy launch and one of the little ships from the Dunkirk rescue operation in May said: "History is about the good, the bad and the ugly so it is what it is."These things deserve to be preserved - I'm not preserving what they stood for, it's more about the object as a historical craft."Mr Wheatcroft said he intended to open the site to the public on "high days and holidays".He said he wanted to maintain a "Victorian feel" on the outside of the historic dock with a "modern structure" in the dock to keep the boats said: "It will enhance the centre of the village as well as bringing in employment both full-time and part-time." The site was built in 1856 and according to Historic England it was said to be the largest dry-dock in the Bristol World War Two wooden minesweepers and motor torpedo boats were constructed dock has been derelict for about 40 years and was listed in 1987.A previous attempt to gain planning permission to build flats on the site was rejected in Wheatcroft bought the site in October 2020. Kym Harris, a lifelong Appledore resident whose grandfather and other relatives worked at Richmond Dock, is fighting the said the community wanted something done with the site but "by covering the dry dock with a shelter or a shed it's almost erasing it from this area of the village".She said: "By covering it, it's almost like it didn't exist and those people of the village who we want to remember and our history that we want to remember, is gone."She said the site was important to people in Appledore and it was a shame it had "been allowed to get into such an awful state".Ms Harris said: "There are vessels from that yard all over the world that were built by local men and we should celebrate that."The planning application for the dock will be conisdered by Torridge District Council on a date yet to be decided.
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Council asked to reconsider housing at battle site
A Devon council is being asked to reconsider a planning application for a development near a Viking battle site after previously rejecting the proposals. Torridge District Council (TDC) turned down the plans for 39 properties by Bloody Corner in Northam three years ago, due to concerns over their location. Bloody Corner is thought to be the site of a battle between Danes and Saxons in AD 878, in which the Viking king Hubba was killed. The council has been asked by the developer's agent to reconsider the application due to a lack of sites to meet the government's housing targets for the next five years. Both TDC and a planning inspector previously rejected the plan, expressing concern the location would impact the coastline and estuary zone, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service. But developer James Tizzard has asked the council to reconsider the proposal as a "sustainable development" given that it immediately adjoins Northam and is within walking distance of a range of facilities. His planning agents argue it meets the council's policy because of the lack of a five- year land supply for new homes. They said Mr Tizzard had revised the layout to help soften visual impacts and "provide a scheme that satisfies the appropriate landscape related policies". Bloody Corner is thought to be the spot at which either King Alfred the Great or an Earl of Devon slayed Hubba the Dane, a Viking, in the ninth century. A Grade II stone tablet at the site commemorates the battle. Four letters of objection to the plans have been submitted to the council, with comments about the area being at "saturation point" for housing, and loss of wildlife habitat and green space. Torridge District Council will consider the plans later. Follow BBC Devon on X, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@ Most deprived rural area of Devon gets £20m boost Proposal for new homes near north Devon town Controversial solar park will go ahead Torridge District Council Local Democracy Reporting Service
