Housing benefit insufficient for more than a third of West Devon families with children – as experts warn child poverty set to increase. Housing benefit is insufficient for more than a third of households with children living in private rental accommodation …

Only half of medically fit patients actually discharged from the Royal Devon University Healthcare Trust – as stomach bug increases pressure on hospitals

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1 day ago · Politicians across Devon have been reacting to the county council’s failed bid to postpone its upcoming elections. Councils with elections planned for this May were given the opportunity to apply to postpone them for a year as part of the government’s wide-ranging plans to overhaul how councils ...

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4 days ago · A businessman whose Devon pub rose from the ashes after burning down is bringing his resilience to the benefit of Tavistock community. Richard Edlmann was not deterred when the pub he owns, the Ring of Bells in North Bovey, burned down after an accidental fire in 2016. Following a rebuild and big ...

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1 day ago · DEVON’S County Council elections will go ahead in May after the Government rejected a request to postpone them. The county council’s ruling Conservatives wanted to delay the elections for a year as plans for an overhaul of local government become clearer. But Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner ...

Jan 31, 2025 · Town councillor Cllr Ursula Mann, who is leading the plan with a steering group, said: “The final version of the plan reflects the voice of the community, encouraging affordable community-led housing, protecting green spaces, safeguarding community facilities, providing guidance for new development, and supporting projects like the proposed Tavistock railway, new skatepark and abbey remains.

Amid a national and local housing crisis, future housing development caused some dispute at the full council meeting on Tuesday last week. To address the need for affordable and and social homes the NDP supports exception sites and community-led affordable housing, but doesn’t allocate any new land in the plan.