A MEMBER of the Teignbridge Council standards board has resigned ‘with immediate effect’ following the extraordinary meeting of Teignbridge District Council on February 14.

Independent member and Kingskerswell parish councillor Jane Taylor tendered her resignation after attending the meeting saying she was ‘appalled at their obvious lack of acceptance of the Ombudsman’s findings’.

She joined the board after being promised there was an ‘appetite for change’.

Cllr Taylor, a retired police Chief Inspector for 30 years, said: ‘The culture is now much worse, not better, and I have been considering my position for some time, due to the inability of the council to provide a functioning Standards Committee and the behaviours I have witnessed.

She added: ‘It would not be tolerated in any other workplace and I want no part in it.

‘I do not wish to be associated with a council where the majority of councillors either condone this behaviour or lack the courage to stand against it.’