Welcome to the South Hams Friends of the Earth Website. South Hams is in South Devon and covers the area roughly in between Plymouth, Torbay and Dartmoor. This is a website specific to that area and it gets updated every few days.
We are currently involved in anti incinerator campaigns in Plymouth and Ivybridge, and in Buckfastleigh we are supporting the campaign to stop toxic Incinerator Bottom Ash being dumped at Whitecleave Quarry.
You can get more information on the campaign against the New England Quarry incinerator from ecoivy, and about the Plymouth anti incinerator campaign from iiw.
More information on the campaign to stop Whitecleeves Quarry in Buckfastleigh being used as a toxic dump can be found at http://www.community.buckfastleigh.org
It’s also worth checking out http://peopleaction.org.uk/ which has information and links to the current campaign websites. http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/ is a news site giving snippets of interesting stuff locally.
The Save our South Hams website is well worth visiting – good pictures of smoke! www.southhams-hell.co.uk
We are also involved in local planning, pressing South Hams District Council to enforce developers to adopt sustainable construction techniques, and being involved in SHDC’s site Masterplanning exercises.
Visit Friends of the Earth nationally for information on national campaigns.
Look at the recent posts to find out what’s happening, and look at the pages on the top of the screen for an overview.