Sustainable Crediton Newsletter Issue 81
There are two major Crediton housing developments in the
planning pipeline amounting to over 400 new homes. If you do not
agree with these developments it is vitally important that you
submit your own personal objections to the planning applications.
This article tells you
how.
The food group is meeting to decide its future, as numbers have
dwindled. Do come and discuss
this with us.
Beech Hill Community Co-operative has been providing sustainable
low-cost housing for over 30 years. Some of their members were
founding members of Crediton Climate Action ten years ago.In the
1990s they were forced to sell off part of their home - a
self-contained flat. Now that flat is coming up for sale and they
want to buy it back. If you would like to help them, please look at their crowdfunding appeal.
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We continued to coppice in the woods at Moor Farm. the
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TALK: Our Energy Future: bright or dim?
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1) Present
Carolyn,
Esther, Anne, Chris, Polly, Bob
2) Food
Sharing event
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Last outing of the season,
coppicing. A beautiful spring day, great tits calling , buzzards
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There are two major developments in Crediton taking place at the
moment.
Pedlarspool/Creedy Bridge site - planning
application by Gleesons to build 330 homes, including a
travellers site and primary school
Details found under the planning application and associated documents.
There are 45! attac ... |
Supermarket scales back ambition as official statistics show
average family throws away £700 of food each year. To read more visit this link
The Sum of Us campaigning organisation has created a petition
asking Sainsbury's to stick to its original 50% target.
Tell Sainsbury's to keep 50% food wast ... |
Beech Hill Community Co-operative has been providing sustainable
low-cost housing for over 30 years - and we want to grow!
In the 1990s we were forced to sell off part of our home - a
self-contained flat. Now that flat is coming up for sale and we'd
love to buy it back.
We all pay rent, contribut ... |
Following on from our song writing evening some lyrics
have been made, and anyone with musical or poetic talents can
contact Sarah Green (see panel on the right) if they would like to
perform at Crediton's Got Talent during Credfest. The lyrics to the Sustainable Crediton song are
available here.
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The Devon new economy working group has obtained funding
to employ someone to carry out a short piece of consultancy work
over the next few months.
The details are attached if you are interested, ie job
description and background paper.
Background Paper
Job Description
If you would like to dis ... |
See how much plastic you generate in a year and then consider
how you dispose of it. Is it recycled or sent to landfill where it
takes centuries to decompose. Can you reduce your use of plastic in
any ways?
Do this simple quiz and join the fight against
ocean plastic pollution.
Greenpeace have a ... |
I attended the Compost Doctor Training in March and learnt
about several different ways to make compost, for example using a
compost tumbler, wormery, New Zealand composter or a green cone. I
never realised there were so many different ways to turn your
vegetable peelings into good stuff for the ga ... |
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Morgan Freeman