District councillor
Cllr Peter Faithfull
Strategic Planning Committee member (from late 2025); Councillor for Ottery St Mary (Independent)
Independent councillor for Ottery St Mary on East Devon District Council (council records list service since 2015). Spoke at SPC as a non-member until 2025 and is listed as a committee member from November 2025.
Where they stand
?Position not clearAsked at SPC on 14 July 2026 how secure the 400 m heath buffer could be made and pressed for outstanding evidence such as the water cycle study, without stating a view on the allocation.
I have some sympathy for the people of Exmouth quite honestly if we say they're going to be a buffer what how secure can we make that bufferStrategic Planning Committee, 14 July 2026 · 00:48:28 ▶ · meeting page · Questioned the security of the buffer; no position stated on the allocation.
Everything they said about EXMO20 at the meetings
10 passages from the council recordings, in date order. Each time stamp plays the recording at that moment.
Strategic Planning Committee, 4 February 2025 (1)
well first I'd like to declare an interest I didn't realize at the time uh I've had communication and lobbying in relation to autri 2000:36:01 ▶ · I. Admissions (24)
Strategic Planning Committee, 25 November 2025 – morning session (1)
got rather distracted way of the water cycles and X 20 and whatever02:01:10 ▶ · I. Admissions (24)
Strategic Planning Committee, 3 March 2026 – afternoon session (1)
just following on what others are saying in this use of AI it seems to be that we're getting more and more data centres to handle all this AI and not actually using any brains00:48:13 ▶ · 1. When the use of AI is mentioned (24)
Strategic Planning Committee, 5 May 2026 (2)
we've got stacks of work to do between now even now between now and December. So can that be considered, please? A few questions I have got is when will the viability work be available?00:53:54 ▶ · 2. Outstanding pieces of work (HRA, Air Quality Mitigation report, etc.) – especially dates and promises (257)
it's just another little question june 2027 is that still likely to be achievable as a going live01:35:14 ▶ · 2. Outstanding pieces of work (HRA, Air Quality Mitigation report, etc.) – especially dates and promises (257)
Strategic Planning Committee, 14 July 2026 (1)
I have some sympathy for the people of Exmouth quite honestly if we say they're going to be a buffer what how secure can we make that buffer00:48:28 ▶ · I. Admissions (24)
Strategic Planning Committee, 22 September 2026 (1)
we haven't got it today so have we got a time scale for when you can expect to have this or can we is there possibly a briefing between now and November those that's starting to get rather tight02:25:17 ▶ · 2. Outstanding pieces of work (HRA, Air Quality Mitigation report, etc.) – especially dates and promises (257)
Full Council, 14 October 2026 (3)
we're talking about sewage capacity but Wimbleball reservoir is down to 18 percent and we're still building houses and we should be taking more notice of strategic in the Wimbleball reservoir because we haven't got the capacity until cheddar cheddar is not gonna get built until 203600:43:34 ▶ · D. Deliverability: access, sewage, water, infrastructure, viability (“effective”) (125)
did want to ask the portfolio holder about are we any nearer the documents we need for the … the water cycle study and the other documents that we need00:44:00 ▶ · 2. Outstanding pieces of work (HRA, Air Quality Mitigation report, etc.) – especially dates and promises (257)
I still haven't had my second question answered yet, that's all. … The documents, the water cycle study and all this stuff that we're waiting for.00:56:18 ▶ · 2. Outstanding pieces of work (HRA, Air Quality Mitigation report, etc.) – especially dates and promises (257)
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