Courtlands Update – Tuesday 31st January
Day 5 of the marathon enquiry was largely devoted to cross examination of the developers’ main witness, David Seaton. He was grilled, and probed, and quizzed over endless fine…
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Courtlands Update – Friday 27th January
Friday’s appeal hearing dealt with two aspects – heritage and strategic planning:
Heritage was brief and a minor issue. It was however disappointing that EDDC put up no fight at…
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Courtlands Update – Thursday 26th January
Yes, Day 3 and the end is definitely not yet in sight! Today the Appeal hearing covered two areas, hearing from EDDC’s Alan Breckon about development control, and from…
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Courtlands Update – Wednesday 25th January
Today at the Courtlands Cross Planning Enquiry Lympstone’s second batch of evidence was heard. A bit of a daunting prospect for all concerned as without doubt this was…
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Village hall restoration news
Last year was the hall’s busiest year ever. We attracted many new bookings, partly because of the splendid facilities in our all-new kitchen.
We’re now planning the next stage of…
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Toddler group relaunched
The Lympstone Toddler group has successfully relaunched!
It now runs every Monday morning during term time, from 9 to 11am in the Function room, at the village hall – please…
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We came a wassailing…
More than 80 people assembled in Sowden House orchard on Twelfth Night, many of them family groups, to wassail the apple trees.
The ancient custom of wassailing would have been…
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