Devon County Council

Environment & Planning

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Key Features

In this section...

• Planning Regulating land use through strategic and local plans and meeting planning requirements with a development control system
• Climate Change Addressing the causes of global warming and the impacts of climate change
• 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
• Green Infrastructure is the asset of natural, green and blue spaces that include: open space such as parks and gardens, allotments, woodlands, fields, hedges, lakes, waterways, ponds, playing fields, coastal habitats, footpaths and cycleways etc.