THE automatic voting system in the council chamber at Teignbridge Council’s Forde House, Newton Abbot, was out of action for today’s (NOVEMBER 17) planning committee and members had to revert to the age old reliability of the good old raising of hands.

Matter discussed included 203 homes at Whitehill, Exeter Road, Newton Abbot; Haldon Forest Holiday Park to be ’continually monitored’ as retrospective permission granted; Barton Surgery, Dawlish expansion plans considered; Ashburton barn application for change of use to nursery school; Change of use for unit at Broadmeadow Industrial Estate, Teignmouth.

READ THE REPORTS IN FULL IN FRIDAY’S PAPER.