Environment & Planning

New England Quarry Let us know your views on the major planning application for the New England Resource Recovery Centre.

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In this section...

• Planning Regulating land use through strategic and local plans and meeting planning requirements with a development control system
• Climate Change Climate change is happening now, and some of its effects can already be felt in Devon.
• Energy By reducing our energy use we can cut our energy bills and are also helping to conserve global supplies of fossil fuels
• Environmental Health Dealing with health hazards such as pollution, noise or food safety
• Historic Environment Material remains of our ancestors across the landscape
• Recycling What you can recycle and where you can do it
• Housing Development planning, affordable housing, advice for vulnerable people
• Natural Environment Protecting the best of our coasts and countryside
• Public Rights of Way Maintaining and using the network of footpaths, bridleways and byways across the county
• Waste Plans for reducing and disposing of all our waste
• Pollution Responding to the challenges of environmental pollution
• Sustainable Development Meeting the needs of today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
• Environmental Policy Devon County Council's policy for reducing the impacts of its operations on the environment
• Green Infrastructure The asset of natural, green and blue spaces that include parks and gardens, woodlands, fields, hedges, lakes, playing fields, coastal habitats, footpaths and more  
• Flood Risk Management