Stance on housing to be applauded

CONGRATULATIONS to North Devon Council for refusing permission for a vast building proposal beside the beautiful Taw Estuary.

At last common sense from an overwhelming number of councillors has prevailed.

Let us earnestly hope that all the other District Councils in Devon will have the vision to recognise that if we do not act locally to save our unique and precious countryside at present filled with fast declining wildlife, our children will die.

Our Government has failed us by not making strict laws to preserve the wildlife and the countryside throughout the whole kingdom. Such action should have urgently become a precedent over any building, whether housing, solar farms or landlocked wind farms and roads etc. in the countryside.

There is plenty of room for such building already in urban sites deserted because of Covid now crying out for green restitution.

Switzerland has had the foresight already to make this Law, severely punished if broken. It works well.

So it is our duty in Devon to look forward with vision after the suffering of so many Covid victims and to act with responsibility, to put the past well behind us and cease to pay lip service about saving our planet by doing something now.

Well done North Devon and all the charities and locals who were prepared to put their heads on the block and show that the day of the ‘developer’s power’ is over. It is power of new vision and common sense that must take over from now on. Never mind feeble Government, we can lawfully act together as North Devon has done. Best of luck to them and thank you.

Mary Truell, Devon