Devon County Council is exploring a number of options to reduce its highways and traffic management budget by almost £7 million.
As part of the County Council’s latest Tough Choices consultation, which was launched in September, Devon is considering how to cut spending in 2014/15.
A number of highways budget proposals were put forward on the Tough Choices website last month, inviting comment from members of the public. This is ahead of more extensive public consultation in the new year, when further choices will need to be considered to help meet deeper spending cuts over...
The final consultation on Devon County Council’s new Waste Plan starts today (Monday 2 December) and runs for 12 weeks.
The Devon Waste Plan and all representations made on the plan will be submitted to the Government for examination by a planning inspector after this latest consultation ends on 24 February 2014.
The document has undergone two previous rounds of public consultation, with a number of public exhibitions being held at locations across the county since work on the plan started in Spring 2010. The latest “pre-submission” version of the plan has been informed by...
This year’s Devon stage of the Tour of Britain had the largest turnout in the tour’s seven year history bringing almost £5.9 million of additional spending to the county along the course of the tour.
250,000 spectators are thought to have turned out to watch the race along the 85 mile route between Sidbury and Dartmoor.
Around 62,000 people are thought to have stayed in the county overnight bringing extra trade to the local tourism industry.
A TV audience of more than 2.8 million people in the UK tuned into the coverage of the Devon Stage on ITV4 and Eurosport. The...
A new report has shown that every £1 invested into Broadband, brings £20 back to the UK economy.
The report commissioned for the government also reveals that the impact of superfast internet also has a huge impact on the way we live making it easier to work from home or stream online TV.
Earlier this year the first rural communities in Devon began to benefit from a rollout of superfast broadband to smaller communities.
The improvements are part of a £94 million investment in Devon and Somerset which will see 15,000 premises in the two counties’ benefit.
The number of people claiming Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) in Devon is continuing to fall, with figures dropping by 204 over the past month alone.
According to new figures released today, the number of people claiming in Devon have fallen from 6,717 in September to 6,513 in October meaning that figures have now decreased over the past eight consecutive months.
Year on year, the number of people claiming JSA in Devon has fallen by 2,262 claimants or 29.2%, a bigger decrease than the national figure of 18% over the year.
The number of people aged 24 and under claiming...
A couple from Teignmouth will be able to get married for free after visiting Exeter’s newest wedding venue.
Claire Geisler and her future husband Ben Miles, 31, won the ceremony and reception at the newly opened Larkbeare House, just off Topsham road.
“I was absolutely shocked,” said Claire, 28. “I never ever win anything. We went to have a look because we were already planning to use Larkbeare House but now we’ll have a drinks reception there too, which is fantastic, and get it for free. We want it to be in Teignmouth too, so we’ll then head to the Yacht Club for the...
Two extra late evening bus journeys will between Okehampton and Exeter 6 days a week.
Funding from Devon County Council will service to run two extra journeys on the X9 service from Exeter each evening, Monday to Saturday at 7:50pm and 9:45pm.
There are also return journeys from Fore Street Arcade in Okehampton to Exeter at 9pm and 11pm.
Councillor Stuart Hughes, Devon County Councillor for Highways, said: “These additional services provide even more convenience and flexibility for passengers. I'm sure the journey times will be welcomed by those who have maybe had a...
Devon County Council will be announcing that it will make available £150,000 in funding to help restore war memorials as part of a project marking the WW1 centenary.
The project called ‘Devon remembers’ will see the armed forces, councils, trade unions as well as local historians team up to help community projects to around local war memorials. The project will initially focus on restoring the 2,000 estimated war memorials erected at the end of the First World War many of which have fallen to disrepair. The project will also see schools across the county encourage children to...
Proposals to save more than £1.2 million next year from the way the County Council manages waste and recycling have been put forward for consultation this week.
The potential savings are part of a wider plan to reduce the council’s budget by over £100m over the next three years to meet the latest Government spending targets. In addition to renegotiating and re-tendering existing waste management contracts , a series of measures are being proposed for 2014/15. These include:
A reduction in the opening hours at Household Waste Recycling Centres by one hour in the morning and...
