District councillor
Cllr Kevin Blakey
Strategic Planning Committee member; Councillor for Cranbrook (Independent)
Independent councillor for Cranbrook on East Devon District Council (council records list service since 2019). Listed as a Strategic Planning Committee member in the meeting attendance records.
Where they stand
?Position not clearSuggested at SPC on 2 September 2025, as an option, allocating only the southern part of EXMO20 (about 569 homes) rather than rejecting the site altogether.
would leave us with a gap to fill but certainly a much smaller gap than if we were to simply turn around and say no we reject this as a site altogetherStrategic Planning Committee, 2 September 2025 (morning) · 01:45:04 ▶ · meeting page · Floated a reduced allocation as a compromise; no clear position for or against.
Everything they said about EXMO20 at the meetings
7 passages from the council recordings, in date order. Each time stamp plays the recording at that moment.
Strategic Planning Committee, 4 February 2025 (1)
Can I also ask the public speakers, were they all on the subject of Expo 2.0?00:45:03 ▶ · I. Admissions (24)
Strategic Planning Committee, 2 September 2025 – morning session (1)
Just a thought with regard to EXMO20, of course. The further north we go on that site, the more difficult matters become. … for 569 dwellings out of a target of 700 that would be 81 percent … would leave us with a gap to fill but certainly a much smaller gap than if we were to simply turn around and say no we reject this as a site altogether01:45:04 ▶ · E. Housing numbers: need, headroom and buffers (59)
Strategic Planning Committee, 3 March 2026 – afternoon session (1)
if I were a cynic good heavens no um I might think that what the government are going to do with this is to feed all the answers from the various councils around the country into their ai machine and come up with a homogenous answer which will be a one five one size fits all because that's what this government thinks00:46:59 ▶ · 1. When the use of AI is mentioned (24)
Strategic Planning Committee, 3 March 2026 – morning session (2)
our big issue is waste water treatment and removal um and particularly for um I think the the west end of East Devon it is creating a major problem we heard from southwest water recently that uh because the ex estuary is a protected area and an area in which no further deterioration of its environment is permitted um that actually any kind of outfall or new outfall into the estuary won't be allowed,02:20:03 ▶ · I. Admissions (24)
So my concern is that our new Local Plan is actually going to be scuppered by a company over which we have no actual control. And without some kind of government intervention, we're not going to be able to deliver the new housing that's required because, simply, there will not be sewage infrastructure sufficient to deal with the outpourings that will follow.02:21:59 ▶ · D. Deliverability: access, sewage, water, infrastructure, viability (“effective”) (125)
Strategic Planning Committee, 14 July 2026 (1)
so the development of existing communities and let's take our largest one Exmouth as a for example have not had to actually accept massive extra development01:38:06 ▶ · The council’s answers (rebuttals) – what officers and councillors said in EXMO20’s defence
Strategic Planning Committee, 22 September 2026 (1)
It is a depressed market, and they also don't want to develop now because they say that they are making no money. There is no margin left in developing new houses.03:36:50 ▶ · I. Admissions (24)
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