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Environment theme update
Paul Sadler
Chair of Environment South Hams
Environment theme update
• Environment theme topics – connections?
• Environment South Hams update
• Illustrations of topics
• Devon Futures work
Local food for and grown in/by the Community
Obesity reduced
Healthy body/mind Food miles reduced
Greenhouse gas emissions reduced
The story of local foodIn South Hams - as capturedby ESH in November 2009
Physical activity
Shared gardens AllotmentsCommunity
OrchardsGuerilla
gardening
Food for free
Can be important in dispersed communities
Local commercial growers
Community supported farming
Alan’s point for LAA/DSP – how can we better
connect commercial growers with local distributors and sellers?
Cost and licence for stall holders
Higher level outcomes:
This entails:
Local food outcome
Local food, consumed locally
Facts about these activities including barriers
Activities, ideas, solutions
1) Planning Permission – depends on site specifics e.g. landscape issues,
views of committee2) Land availability – Wembury PC
worked with National Trust, lateral thinking,3) Funding – Parish/Town Councils can help,
landowners charge rent4) Huge waiting list in South Hams
5) Rules!6) Ivybridge successes, Totnes successes
NSALG has a step by step guide to allotments
Allotments Association in South Hams is helpful too
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Private gardens
Less waste to landfill
Less packaging
Using domestic compost
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A rea of O utstand ingN atura l Beauty
South H am sD istric t Boundary
(Adopted version - Decem ber 2006)
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This m ap is reproduced from the O rdnance Survey m aterial w ith the perm ission of O rd n a n c e S u rv e y o n b e h a lf o f th e C o n tro l le r o f H e r M a je s ty 's S ta t io n e ry O ff ic e , © Crown copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and m ay lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. South Ham s D istrict Council. 100022628. 2008
Greenways, safe access, pathsBerry Pomeroy – True Street
Collaton – Newton FerrersWoolston Green – Landscore (Staverton)
Ringmore – St Anns Chapel (Bigbury)Lee Moor – Shaugh Prior
Halwell village
new play spaces for toddlers, juniors and 8-13 year olds in Dartmouth (Townstal), Woolwell, Kingsbridge & Ivybridge.
New play facilities in Totnes will be built this summer.New skate facilities in Kingsbridge, Ivybridge and Dartmouth
Refurbished tennis courts in Kingsbridge, Totnes & DartmouthNew community garden at The Leechwell, Totnes
More than 50 improved parks and play spaces throughout the market towns and rural parishes of the South Hams.