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We would like to make you aware that we have received reports of bogus court/solicitors/summons emails being sent which contains a link. We do not know the intention of this email, but it could be an attempt to install malware on your computer to gain access to data or your personal information.
We are unable to inform the public about all of the scams in circulation, we ask for you to visit the action fraud website to see the information on scams in circulation and their advice www.actionfraud.police.uk.
Protect yourself from fraud and cyber crime:
If you receive an email from an unknown source, or something doesn’t look right about the email or the action you are being asked to take:
Do not click on any links in the email. Instead visit only trusted websites or use a search engine to find the website
Do not reply to the email or contact the senders in any way.
Do not open any attachments that arrive with the email.
Don’t automatically trust something unfamiliar
Even if you do receive an email from a business or individual you trust, always consider the above if it is:
Asking you to login
Send passwords
Reset accounts
Open attachments
Download files
If a fraud has been committed please report it to action fraud www.actionfraud.police.uk telephone number 0300 123 2040.
Please inform others of this.
If you have any concerns please phone 101 or email 101@dc.police.uk.
Thank you.
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The Citizens Advice drop in advice sessions held in Caring Town Information Exchange (CTIE) at the Mansion on Fore Street. Will be moving from Fridays to every Wednesday from October 3rd.
Teena Barrett, Advice Services Manager at Citizens Advice South Hams says, ”The service will be the same as before, open on a drop- in basis for people to come along with their problems and talk to an adviser although the hours have changed slightly and will now be 9.30am – 12.30pm.
CTIE have made us very welcome and working from the Mansion in Totnes has helped clients who live centrally and find it difficult to travel to Follaton House. The move to a Wednesday is because we have more advisers on hand to help residents with problems such as housing, debt, benefit and disability entitlement. The demand for our services has increased since the introduction of Universal Credit so we have to make sure our advisers are in the right place to help people”.
All information and advice given by Citizens Advice South Hams is free, independent, impartial and confidential. Advice is also quality assured and meets the Advice Quality Standard (AQS), all debt advice is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. CTIE at the Mansion also has a public access computer available.
Totnes residents can access advice from Citizens Advice South Hams, on line by visiting southhamscab.org.uk and typing their problem into the “How can we help” box, by ringing 03 444 111 444 or by dropping into their offices at Follaton House Mon – Thurs 10am – 4pm or CTIE at the Mansion Weds 9.30am-12.30pm
The latest stage in the demise of the Royal Oak is that an application has been made for a change of use to turn the remnants of the pub into three houses (Appln. no. 2873/18/FUL & see the Parish Council DOCUMENTS section on this website).
This application was extensively discussed at last evening’s Bigbury Parish Council meeting (10th October) and approved with a recommendation to provide a wider passing place for traffic in this bottleneck on the road to Bigbury-on-Sea. Anybody wishing to comment on this application will need to do so by October 19th via the SHDC planning portal.
Although the STROP (Save The Royal Oak Pub) group was always promised by the original owner (Hugh Ridgeway) that the pub would re-open on a small scale as the ‘bait in the trap’ for housing development on the car park, no condition was placed on the car park planning consent by SHDC to that effect – against the wishes of the STROP campaign. The ‘promise’ by the developers that the pub would be resurrected in a diminished form was only listed as a ‘consideration’ in the Planning Officer’s report which led to the application being granted for several houses to be built in the car park.
Time has moved on: being realistic, no rural pub could survive in that location with the inadequate parking now available.
It does not help that our application to make the pub an Asset of Community Value, when it first closed, was denied by SHDC – in the face of a professionally prepared counter-argument from the developer. There was no right of appeal. That ACV designation would have made it easier to use the building for some other community-related purpose and to argue against the current proposal for conversion to three houses.
Sadly, the STROP campaign foundered on the rock of unsympathetic bureaucracy.
Click on the link for a review of water quality in the Avon Estuary
MINUTES (REVISED) OF THE BIGBURY PARISH NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN STEERING GROUP MEETING of MONDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 2018 are now available under the NP tab on the front page of this website.
Select Neighburhood Plan from MENU bar >DOCUMENTS >CATEGORY Steering Group Minutes >select file
Date: Thursday 20th of September 2018
Time: 7pm-9pm
Location: Broadley Farm, Diptford, TQ9 7NJ
For details, please see the link:- http://devonbatproject.org/bat-walk-with-south-devon-aonb/
South Hams District Council would like inform landlords of new government legislation which will come into force on Monday 1 October 2018, requiring landlords to hold a license for houses of multiple occupation.
The new law, which is an amendment to the 2006 Housing Act, means that landlords who have a house used for multiple occupation (HMO) occupied by five or more people, who are not from the same family, will require a license.
A house in multiple occupation can include, but is not limited to, examples such as:
a house let as individual bed sitting rooms
a group of rooms on each floor let to single occupants
hostels, some hotels, guesthouses
lodgings, and shared houses
houses converted into self-contained flats
5 bedroom house being rented to 5 single people, sharing facilities
4 bedroom house being rented to a non-married, couple and 3 single people, sharing facilities
There are extra requirements also put in place for existing multiple occupation houses to include, minimum sleeping room sizes and provision of waste facilities.
Landlords who have a property which is classed as a House in Multiple Occupation, or those who are in the process of setting up a rental property which falls within this category, are required to apply for a license before the 1 October 2018.
Cllr Hilary Bastone, South Hams District Councils Portfolio Holder for Customer First, says: “We want to make sure all Landlords are fully aware of the new law which comes into force in October 2018. If you have a House in Multiple Occupation you will be required by law to have a license.
“This means five or more people living independently of each other, within the same property.”
The Council’s Environmental Health Housing Team is committed to working with property owners to make sure licensing requirements are followed. If properties are found after the date which need a license, then a fixed penalty notice may be charged, which could be up to £30,000.
If you are uncertain if your property requires a license or you would like to apply, please visit the Council’s website at www.southhams.gov.uk/hmo
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