South Hams Society Objectives

Objectives and Activities

The South Hams Society was founded in June 1961.

Its objectives are:

1. To stimulate interest in and care for the beauty, history and character of the South Hams.
2. To encourage high standards of planning and architecture.
3. To secure the protection and improvement of the landscape, features of historic interest and public amenity.
4. To promote the conservation of the South Hams as a living, working environment.

Activities

1. The Society holds regular events for members, these include meetings and talks given by well known speakers on interesting subjects

Events

2. Our planning sub-Committee reviews planning applications in the South Hams focussing on the former Southern Area of South Hams District and maintains a rapport with the local planning authority authorities, who welcome our written comments. We study national and regional plans for development, attend meetings and workshops both locally and further afield, and actively respond to consultation documents.

Recent Responses to Planning Applications

3. The Society engages very widely in all matters concerned with the South Hams landscape, its conservation, and its use as a public amenity and regards the South Hams as a living working environment that has to change to meet the many demands put on it, but in a way that is sympathetic to the environment and all who depend upon it.

Our members are very active within the South Devon AONB Partnership. We maintain links with parishes throughout the Area, many other local organisations and amenity societies covering other parts of South Hams District. The Society is represented on a newly forming partnership established in 2007 to submit a funding bid to SWRDA for 'Local Action for Rural Communities' For more information about the work of our partner organisations please refer to the Links page.