• New Okehampton housing and employment development - have your say...

  By nicismeg

  What about the 2nd school you promised us? Devon county council website 17/04/2008 'Devon invited...

            

   

  By Richard_Penny at 12:33 on 18/11/11

  

  We've read a great deal about the various initiatives to bring more work to Okehampton. Now new areas of the town have been selected for new building - and the population of the town have been invited to join in the planning and design of the sites. Here's what the Strategic Planning Team say: "Earlier this year, sites were allocated in the West Devon Core Strategy for development in the east of Okehampton and in the south and...

• Survey shows 90% of Devon's 'child' workers are employed illegally

  By pobox112

  If the figure is estimated to be that high - why is Devon County Council not doing something about...

            

   

  By Richard_Penny at 11:10 on 13/07/11

  

  Up to 90% of children in Devon who undertake casual work do not have the necessary permits, a recent survey estimates. The warning comes from Devon County Council at a time of year when many children of school age are looking for holiday jobs - many in the tourist industry - yet many will be working without the necessary permits. The law states that "all children of compulsory school age who are employed in any trade or...

• Thanks Clr Tony Leach (Independent) Okehampton East

  By wurzel365

  we all know their is nothing that can be done about cats, its just absolutely a joke, and like we...

            

   

  By TigerO at 15:08 on 28/06/11

  

  My neighbours and I have been having huge problems with cats fouling in our vegetable beds. Having spent £100 on electronic repellants and fencing to keep them out, they still keep doing their foul business in my beds. They carry terrible diseases in their faeces and I don't want this in the food I consume. I asked Tony to look at what measures the Council can take to make owners of cats more responible for their pets and stop...

• Okehampton's New Gate: Work of art or... what?

  By DEVONSHIRELAD

  What else can okehampton people expect whilst councillor marsh is running round the town arranging...

            

   

  By DickWilson at 15:20 on 06/10/10

  

  We've all seen it. A gate going nowhere - and it's chained up anyway. What is it? Who's idea?  Why? How much? I make no apologies for turning to that esteemed journal, the Okehampton Times, to find potential answers. This is, and I quote, "a garden symbolising the rural way of life...". Excuse me, but my idea of a garden is not a wall, a gate and a bit of paving, however vernacular the building materials. Rural? I see...

• New West Devon Council sets out its stall

  By pobox112

  Agreed Richard - as long as urban sprawl is kept where the majority of Councillors are not able to...

            

   

  By Richard_Penny at 14:47 on 27/05/11

  

  After the recent change of power, West Devon Borough Council - now for the first time in Conservative control - has laid out the priorities of the new  administration and how they intend to drive forward improvements in the borough   They've drawn up seven key priorities for the next four years, and Council Leader James McInnes has vowed that he and his team of councillors will work harder than ever to help residents during...

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